Boston Celtics rookie center Tacko Fall has been in concussion protocol for roughly a week, missed the team’s regular season opener and could miss another game or two, but how exactly did his concussion come about?
Celtics head coach Brad Stevens offered little in the way of an explanation at the time, simply saying that Fall had hit his head.
“Tacko got hit in the head yesterday after individual work,” Stevens said last week. “He was a little under the weather. It sounds like being very cautious about that.”
Well, several days later and the mystery surrounding Fall has been solved.
Prior to a Thursday shoot-around, Fall explained to MassLive that he had hit his head on a “low ceiling” while trying to wash his hands following a workout at the practice facility.
Initially, the 7-foot-5 Fall thought nothing of it and fulfilled his commitments to the Charlestown Boys and Girls Club without experiencing any symptoms, but says he woke up the following morning feeling ill.
The good news? Fall is feeling much better and both he and the team believe he is “very close” to returning.
“Very close [to a return] from what I’ve been told,” Stevens told reporters on Thursday. “But he wasn’t going to be active anyway.”
Fall signed with the Celtics after going undrafted in the 2019 NBA Draft.
