Boston Celtics small forward Jaylen Brown is dealing with a bone contusion in his right wrist, and it has caused a lot of problems and discomfort for the 22-year-old guard.
The injury has been bothering Jaylen Brown since Nov. 24 when he fell hard onto the floor against the Dallas Mavericks. He also suffered a bruised tailbone from the fall.
The Celtics' training staff has been wrapping Brown's wrist in a silicon pad since Dec. 1. While the silicon pad protects Brown's hand when he falls onto the floor, the swingman says it's been hard to play with it.
“It’s a weird place because it makes it weird to just hold the ball different,” Brown said, via Tom Westerholm of Mass Live. “But when I fall, that little silicon pad kind of saves it from getting further injured. It’s just annoying injury.
“It just makes it harder to play period, because I’m a right-hand dominant player. But I’ve been playing through it. They’ve been having me take pills and stuff and just, it’s been numb, but as soon as the game is over I start to feel the pain again.”
“But I’ve been just doing my best to just be there for my team, especially now as we’re trying to figure things out and get a rhythm going, so I’ll try to stick it out and just grit my teeth and keep playing basketball.”
Brown is averaging 12.6 points while shooting 45.2 percent from the floor and 30.6 percent from beyond the arc since Dec. 1. The 22-year-old is only shooting 27.0 percent from the 3-point line on the season.
Clearly, the bone contusion is affecting Jaylen Brown's shot lately.
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