The Celtics, playing without Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday, fought off a comeback attempt by the Denver Nuggets at TD Garden.

T he Boston Celtics are gearing up for a showdown with the Denver Nuggets on Sunday but they could be missing a few players. Star forward Jaylen Brown, point guard Jrue Holiday, a

Jrue Holiday and Al Horford headline the Boston Celtics' injury report going into Tuesday's game against the Toronto Raptors. The report reveals that Holiday will sit out the game as the Celtics are resting him.

However, the Celtics were once again without Jrue Holiday, who missed his second straight game due to a mallet finger injury. Holiday had been questionable to play against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday,

CLNS Media’s Bobby Manning and SB Nation’s Noa Dalzell break down Jrue’s injury, its potential impact down the line.

It had been a while since the last vintage Jrue Holiday run, one filled with a nonstop flurry of winning plays, but he whipped one together early Sunday afternoon. Over the first six minutes of the Boston Celtics’ 118-105 win,

“I’m not gonna lie, I didn’t really hear of the term mallet finger until people were telling me I had mallet finger,” Holiday said before the Celtics hosted the Denver Nuggetts at TD Garden. “They just told me that I broke my finger.”

Should veteran Boston Celtics combo guard Jrue Holiday be ranked in the NBA's top 30 players? If you are among the fans of the team who believe that the UCLA alum ought to be, the folks behind a recent top 100 NBA players for the 2024-25 regular season at CBS Sports came pretty close to agreeing with you.

A new injury sidelined Jrue Holiday for the Celtics’ marquee matchup with the Cleveland Cavaliers. The starting guard was ruled out for Friday’s game at TD Garden with a mallet finger injury on his right (shooting) hand. Boston also ruled out center Kristaps Porzingis (illness) for the second time in three games.