
The Boston Celtics have listed veteran big man Al Horford as out for the team’s tilt against the Orlando Magic Saturday evening with back soreness, joining fellow frontcourt players Robert Williams III (knee) and Danilo Gallinari (knee) as scratches for the second half of Boston’s back-to-back on their first road trip of the 2022-23 NBA season.
Horford has repeatedly stressed that he does not plan to sit on back-to-backs this season, but if the Dominican forward is experiencing any discomfort at all, it is undoubtedly the right call to rest the vet given how thin the Celtics’ frontcourt rotation already is with both Gallo and Timelord out hurt.