The Celtics entered Sunday’s season finale against the Magic with all of eight healthy and active players.
The entire starting lineup of Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, Derrick White, Sam Hauser and Neemias Queta were ruled out well before the game. Key rotation players Payton Pritchard and Nikola Vučević joined them on the injury report; standout rookie Hugo González was a late scratch with a foot issue. That left Baylor Scheierman, Jordan Walsh and Luka Garza as the only active players who had gotten any sort of run this season. The rest of the lineup was filled out by Boston’s two-way players and G-League mainstays who signed full deals late in the season for financial maneuvering purposes, such as Ron Harper Jr., John Tonje and Max Shulga. It wasn’t a surprise given the C’s had locked up their playoff spot on Friday and thus had nothing to play for.
