Boston Celtics' Marcus Smart questionable for Game 1 against Miami Heat with midfoot sprain

Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart is questionable for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Miami Heat with a right midfoot sprain, coach Ime Udoka said Monday.

Sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski that Smart had an MRI on the foot Monday that came back clean, and that Smart will test the foot Tuesday.

«He took a pretty bad fall, got bent up. He has a mid-foot sprain, and it's pretty tender and sore right now,» Udoka said during a teleconference with the media Monday afternoon ahead of the team's flight to Miami for Game 1 Tuesday night. «We'll get him round the clock treatment and right now he'll be listed as questionable.»

Smart appeared to suffer the injury when he fell over Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo during Boston's 109-81 victory in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals Sunday.

Center Robert Williams III, meanwhile, didn't play in Sunday's win. Udoka said before the game both that Williams was available and that he didn't want to disrupt his rotation.

He said Monday that Williams will have no restrictions heading into the series against the Heat, and that it will be easier to integrate him at the start of a series than to try to in the middle of an ongoing one.

«Rob is available, just like he was last night. I mentioned he'd be on a needed basis, and he's available, no minutes restriction. I'm always going to be a little bit cautious with guys coming off a layoff without touching the court, but it's a little bit different starting a new series as opposed to being injected into a Game 7 or Game 6 or whatever the case was before. But he's available, looking better every day, and getting more confident in that.»

Williams has blossomed into a huge part of Boston's team this season,