‘I still have glass in my hand,’ says Boston’s Marcus Smart of an injury from 2018 that still makes his hand numb
Boston Celtics veteran point guard Marcus Smart made a surprising revelation to the press after the Celtics 107 – 97 road win over the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday night about his health — specifically a hand he’d injured previously in a fit of rage over some photos posted online back in 2018.
Smart rolled up to the postgame media session after the Pelicans win noticeably irritated with his hand, and fielded a question about what was bothering the Flower Mound native. Not a product of his play in that game, Smart explained it was a nagging issue dating back to that incident that saw him smash a picture frame with his hand in which the glass came very close to severing a tendon.
“(I) still have some glass in there,” shared Smart about the injury. “(The doctor) said it would probably cause more problems to take the glass out.”
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“So, I still have glass in my hand,” he continued. Sometimes I can’t feel my hand a little bit — it comes back.”
“Probably (I’ll) see what I can do about it afterward. The doctor said that I should be okay. But like they said, it’ll probably cause more problems to take the glass out, so they left it in. So, ever since that day, I’ve had glass in my hand.”
The injury in question is something Smart has mentioned as having bothered him still previously, and Smart related that he’d even saved some of the shards that nearly severed a tendon (and perhaps even his playing career).
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“I probably would have had to have surgery,” said Smart to ESPN’s Chris Forsberg at the time. “I would have been done for the year.”
Hopefully, mild discomfort is all he has to deal with from that momentary lapse of self-control that still reminds the Texan guard it occurred all these years later.
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