Celtics/Cavs Game 5 injury report: Mitchell, Allen, LeVert [Video]

With a win in Game 5 on Wednesday night, the Boston Celtics will punch their ticket to the Eastern Conference for the third consecutive season and their sixth in the last eight years.

The path to doing so seems to be clearing up a bit, as the Cleveland Cavaliers, who are 1-4 on the road this season, being outscored by an average of 13.8 points per game, will be without three key rotation players in Donovan Mitchell (calf strain), Jarrett Allen (ribs), and Caris LeVert (knee).

“We prepare the same way.  We expect them to come out battling, fighting,” Al Horford said on preparing for a potentially shorthanded Cavs team. “We have to be able to match that regardless. I feel like our group responded pretty well from last game.”

Mitchell, who is averaging 31.7 points on 51.5% shooting from the field and 53.3% from deep this series with 6.3 …