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PER Diem: April 16, 2009

By John Hollinger
ESPN.com

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Well, that was a nice how-do-you-do to start the playoffs. We'd barely had an hour to sip our coffee and digest the matchups when news broke that Boston's Kevin Garnett was out indefinitely, and could miss the entire postseason. This doesn't come as a huge shock to those who have been reading the tea leaves coming out of Beantown the past few weeks -- the nonspecific nature of the injury, the moving timelines, the fact he's been playing 40 minutes a game for the past 14 years -- all of which ...

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