Celtics’ Hayward out four weeks with ankle sprain

The Boston Celtics said forward Gordon Hayward will be sidelined for around four weeks after suffering a severe right ankle sprain in the a Game 1 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers.

The injury occurred in the fourth quarter of their first-round 109-101 playoff victory Monday night when Hayward went up for a rebound and rolled his ankle as he landed on teammate Daniel Theis’ foot. He limped to the locker room and didn’t return.

Hayward played 34 minutes and scored 12 points on 5-for-13 shooting with four rebounds before the injury, which the team described as a Grade 3 sprain, the most severe type.

The timeline for recovery means Hayward will miss the rest of the first round at a minimum and possibly some of the second if the Celtics advance. He already planned to leave the bubble for a time if the team was still playing in September. His wife is pregnant and is scheduled to deliver sometime next month.

■ Jazz: Guard Mike Conley has returned to Walt Disney World after the birth of his son and will go through a quarantine period before joining Utah for its playoff series against Denver. The Jazz announced he was back at the NBA campus following the team’s practice Tuesday.

■ Hornets: Charlotte suspended radio playby-play broadcaster John Focke indefinitely after he used a racial slur on his Twitter account. Focke used the slur while Tweeting about the Utah-denver playoff game. He has since deleted the tweet and apologized, saying it was a typo.

■ Syracuse: Guard Alan Griffin has been granted a waiver of the transfer residence requirement by the NCAA and is immediately eligible to play for the Orange, the school announced Tuesday. A junior guard from Ossining, New York, Griffin spent his first two college seasons at Illinois and has two years of eligibility remaining.

■ Texas Tech: Krista Gerlich, a former

Lady Raiders assistant coach and player who helped the program win its only national championship in 1993, will be the new women’s basketball coach.