Milicic (wrist) contemplates cortisone shot

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PHILADELPHIAIt's a good thing that Danny Ainge made adding lots of big men a priority this season.

Because it's looking more and more like he'll need them all.

Darko Milicic has played with a strained ligaments injury in his right wrist for a while that was re-aggravated in Boston's 107-75 loss to Philadelphia on Monday.

The pain is so severe now that he's contemplating having a cortisone shot to help alleviate the pain.

"I'm thinking about it," Milicic told CSNNE.com. "It (the pain) went away and I forgot about it. And I landed on it, and I got hit on it, and got hit on it and some other stupid (bleep)the pain keeps coming back."

The pain has been there for a while, Milicic said.

But now it's to the point where the pain has limited his wrist's mobility.

"I can't do this," says Milicic, as he tries to turn his wrist clock-wise and then, counter clock-wise.

"I can't move it up either," he adds, as he holds his hand palms down, and tries to bend the wrist upwards.

Sitting out and letting it rest is another option, but Milicic is quick to shoot that down.

"It's not really one of the options I want to take," he said. "We'll see."

Milicic has been among the Celtics' biggest surprises thus far in camp. With Chris Wilcox out indefinitely with a back injury, Milicic has played his way into the regular big man rotation off the bench along with rookie Jared Sullinger.

If the Celtics decide to shut him down for some or all of the remainder of the preseason, that likely means more playing time for veteran big man Jason Collins and Sullinger, who is also in the hunt to start for the C's at power forward.

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