Jackson felt a twinge in his abdominal wall while going through Tuesday morning’s shootaround, but nobody expected it to keep him out of the home finale against Miami. But when he went out for his typical pregame workout about 90 minutes before the game, the discomfort was still present.
“Got a little worse when I got here and unfortunately couldn’t go tonight,” he said after the 99-93 loss to a Heat team playing for a chance to get home-court advantage in the first round. “Going to go ahead and take care of it. We did some treatment today and just getting ready to be ready, hopefully for tomorrow and then going forward.”
“I guess it was bothering him this morning, but I didn’t think it was a big deal,” Stan Van Gundy said. “When he came in tonight, he went out and they checked him when he was warming up and he was hurting. He’s got an abdominal strain. He’s day to day. We don’t think it will affect his readiness for the playoffs. We’ll see.”