Injured Boston Celtics stars Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward still have another two-and-a-half months to recover before the start of the new NBA season, but it sounds like both will be ready well before then.
Appearing this week on the “Yahoo! Sports NBA” podcast with host Chris Mannix, Celtics head coach Brad Stevens said that he expects the two players to be fully cleared by the start of training camp and likely long before.
Brad Stevens told @ChrisMannixYS that Hayward and Kyrie are both on schedule: "I think [Hayward] and Kyrie will be fully cleared by the time training camp starts and probably well before."
— Fred Katz (@FredKatz) August 7, 2018
Hayward is roughly ten months removed from a catastrophic leg injury he suffered in Boston’s 2017-18 season opener, while Irving is just over four months removed from surgery to address a bacterial infection in his knee. Despite the absences of the two All-Stars, the Celtics won 55 games in the regular season and came within a single victory of an NBA Finals berth.
The team opens up training camp in late September, and this news adds to what has already been a summer of significant optimism for them.
