I’m also making sure the rest of my body stays in shape. So after all that leg work, I go to the weight room and I do a weight workout. One day, it will be an upper body workout and then conditioning at the end of it. The next day, will do lower body and then conditioning at the end of that. Obviously, I want to stay in as good physical shape, as close to what I was when I went down as I can. So it’s about trying to do something conditioning-wise to try to keep my heart rate up and trying to maintain some of the muscle that I had in the other parts of my body, even though right now I can’t load as much on the left.

My workouts now are even longer than they were in the summer because I have to move a little bit slower to get everywhere. I am doing a lot more exercises like low load circuits, and balance stuff, and stretching stuff, that I probably — to be honest — should have been doing before I even got hurt. But you don’t necessarily have to do it as much when you’re healthy.

Then at the end of the workout, I go to the basketball court and do as much basketball work as I can. I’ve recently started to do some stuff standing up, so I don’t have to use the chair to shoot anymore. I can just shoot with the boot on, staying straight up. It’s non-movement stuff for now, but I can handle the basketball just standing straight up and do different drills like that.

That’s pretty much the routine every day. Then I do another rehab session at my house every night, after the girls go to bed. That’s just some calf raises, some balance stuff, stretching and things like that. I spend probably another hour doing that. It depends on the day.

That’s the thing with the therapy. It all depends on how my foot does. If I did a lot the day before and my foot swells up, then I back off of it and don’t do as much the following day.

Now that I can finally do some stuff for my rehab, we’re going to try to plan to have a day off each week, or a day to just rest it at least and not do as much rehab.

I’m also talking to a sports psychologist once a week to help me overcome any negative thoughts, and try to keep a positive outlook on this whole thing. Just talking to somebody about that type of stuff is really good to keep me on the right track.

It’s all a process. And it’s all about being patient. There’s still is a long road ahead.

But I’m doing everything I can to get back 100 percent. I appreciate the continued support and all the messages I’ve received. It’s definitely humbling and motivating at the same time.

BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE

The toughest part of the whole thing is honestly watching our games and other games around the NBA, and not really being able to be a part of it. The mental side of it is 100% the most difficult. I trained all summer and made a decision to come play for the Boston Celtics, only to have to sit on the sideline and watch the Boston Celtics play. That is definitely the toughest part.

That first game back at the Garden was really tough. That was basically the first time I had been out of the house, in the public. My foot was throbbing the whole game, but I wanted to try to get to a game, and I knew it was a big one for us. It was difficult to sit there and watch, because the crowd was going crazy, and as a basketball player, you want to be a part of that.