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Jaylen Brown added to Celtics’s injury report, among three questionable pistons vs.

Jaylen Brown added to Celtics’s injury report, among three questionable pistons vs.

Celtics listed four rotation players in their injury report before the road match on Wednesday night against Detroit Pistons.

The Luke Kornet (personal reasons) reserve center was excluded for the second right game. Jaylen Brown (Left thigh contusion), Kristaps porzingis (disease) and Sam Hauser (low back stiffness) were listed as questionable.

Brown’s injury caused him to miss some of the second half of Tuesday evening 111-101 wins over Toronto Raptors. He headed to the locker room at the beginning of the third quarter, returned to play 8:41 in the fourth, then came out of the last three minutes. Brown, who drove all 24 -point markers in victory, told The Boston Globe that he suffered a bone bruising And he wasn’t sure of his status for Wednesday.

Hauser started instead of a Jree’s rest holiday and registered a 40 -minute career against Toronto. He took care of the lower back problems in the summer, but has played in the last 10 games in Boston and 28 of the last 30.

Purzingis was a last -minute scratch on Tuesday night, with head coach Joe Mazzla saying that the weather center was partly part of Make sure it will be available against Detroit.

“It didn’t feel good and, at the same time, we wanted to make sure we would have it for (Wednesday),” said Mazzul Reporters Postgame. “We all made this decision together, only as a team, that it would be best if … we make sure we guarantee it (Wednesday).”

Holiday and Al Horford, who both settled on the first night of a back-back, were removed from the injury report, wiping them to play against the rising pistons. Detroit wears a series of seven games in the middle of the week on Little’s Arena; The Celtic won six rights.