UPDATE via Steve Bulpett of the Herald:
Garnett missed one game last week with a right thigh bruise, and he got kicked in the same leg in Monday’s loss to Golden State. Though these latest issues are in the same area, trainer Ed Lacerte said, through the team, that this current situation is not related to the problems that caused Garnett to get surgery on the right knee this past offseason.
Kevin Garnett is questionable for tonight's game against Phoenix:
"If I do decide to sit him (Garnett), I'm not sitting him for one game. I can tell you that," Rivers said. "I told Kevin that."
Rivers doesn't have a definitive timetable for when Garnett would return if he sits him tonight, although he said it would likely be around Jan. 6 when the C's play at Miami, or possibly longer.
Garnett has not been moving as well as Rivers would like, which is why Rivers' decision is more of a preventive, big-picture step to avoid a repeat of last season when Garnett missed the final 25 games of the season as well as the playoffs.
"It's early in the season," Rivers said. "We got tonight and we got two days, and then we got three days after that. To me, if you're going to rest guys, this is the perfect time to do it."
Rivers added, "I don't know if I'm going to do that. But right now I can tell you that I'm leaning that way heavily."
Great. Just great. It's not even mid-season and we're already worried about resting guys?
Rondo is also questionable for tonight's game because of a sore right hamstring.