{"id":798789,"date":"2018-03-10T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T17:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=798473"},"modified":"2018-03-10T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T17:30:04","slug":"your-morning-dump-where-no-news-is-good-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/your-morning-dump-where-no-news-is-good-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Morning Dump… Where no news is good news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every morning, we compile the links of the day and dump them here\u2026 highlighting the big story line. Because there\u2019s nothing quite as satisfying as a good morning dump.<\/em><\/p>\n

All’s quiet on the Jaylen Brown front.<\/p>\n

Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown, who escaped serious injury when he hit the back of his head and neck late in the third floor of Thursday’s game in Minnesota, has entered the NBA’s concussion protocol.<\/p>\n

Brown will be out indefinitely, the Celtics said Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ESPN<\/a><\/p>\n

I was at that game.<\/p>\n

When Jaylen’s head hit the court, and he didn’t make any move to get up, the whole place shut down.<\/p>\n

Off to the side, Marcus Smart was down on one knee with his head in his hands for several minutes. I was sitting off the corner of the end the Celtics were defending in the second half, and we couldn’t figure out what everyone was cheering about at first, and then we realized fans at the other end could see him moving his arms. When he started moving his legs and they kept the gurney on the sidelines, the cheers got a bit louder, and the arena gave him a standing ovation when he walked off under his own power.<\/p>\n

(This is, by the way, the second Saturday in a row where I’ve led the dump with a story about Jaylen Brown’s brain–last week’s was more fun, though)<\/p>\n

Page 2: Where the bench has an identity<\/h2>\n

The Celtics (46-20) enter the home stretch playing some of their best basketball, a run that has been fueled in part by an unexpected Big Three off the bench – Marcus Morris, Marcus Smart and Terry Rozier.<\/p>\n

They may not be on the floor at the start of games, but there is no escaping the fact that Boston\u2019s success of late \u2013 the Celtics have won six of seven since the All-Star break – with the lone loss a three-point defeat on the road at Houston \u2013 has been heavily aided by the trio\u2019s ability to impact the game at both ends of the floor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NBC Sports<\/a><\/p>\n

I had fun watching Terry Rozier on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

While Marcus & Marcus were pretty much the same from the moment they checked in during the first quarter up to the end of the game, Terry hit the court looking a bit skittish. I don’t know if he was amped up, or nervous, but he was, as they say, ‘moving fast, not quick’ during a pretty uneven first stint.<\/p>\n

By the time the fourth quarter rolled around, though, it was a totally different Terry on the court. He looked smooth. He and the rest of the bench mob did a pretty good job keeping the Wolves’ starters at roughly arm’s length over the first half of the fourth quarter, giving Kyrie and Horford plenty of time to rest.<\/p>\n

Bonus! Weird Celtics Twitter is still officially A Thing<\/h2>\n
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pic.twitter.com\/qVK9M0uiNr<\/a><\/p>\n

— Riffs Man (@Riffs_Man) March 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n