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Tim BontempsESPN
BOSTON — As Celtics center Robert Williams sat on the bench with pain in his left knee during the third quarter of Boston’s victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves last Sunday, he knew something was wrong.
But he also was terrified to know just how wrong it was.
“I was hurt … I was so hurt, because I knew something wasn’t right,” Williams said Saturday during his first media availability since having surgery on his torn meniscus on Wednesday. “I could tell it was something that was gonna stop me from playing. So I really didn’t even want to find out what it was at one point. Like, at one point, I was sitting on a bench, like the end of the third, and I knew something was wrong, but I was so scared to even stand up.
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“But, thankfully, this is out the way and we on to rehab now.”
The “this” Williams was referring to was the surgery he underwent — a partial meniscectomy in his left knee after he injured the meniscus during Sunday’s victory.
After Boston had torn through the NBA over the past two months, winning 24 of 28 games before Williams got hurt and outscoring opponents by over 16 points per 100 possessions during that stretch, his injury was a reminder of how fleeting runs like that in the NBA can be.
But after initial fears that it could cost Williams the rest of the regular season and playoffs, the four-to-six-week timetable for his return could allow Williams to be back on the court by the end of April — in time for the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.
Williams said that he immediately felt relief in his knee after the surgery, and said he was happy that it proved to be the “best-case scenario” for his return.
“Because they told me that it was a good surgery,” Williams said, when asked why it was the best-case scenario. “Everything went as well as we wanted it, as well as it could go, and their observation is that I can be back in that time frame.
“Just gotta take our time, make sure it’s the right plan, make…
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