The NBA offered the Boston Celtics some healing Thursday by revoking one of Kendrick Perkins' technical fouls, leaving him eligible to play in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals. The league treated them more kindly than did the Orlando Magic, which left the Celtics discarded, dazed and concussed. With Perkins available to play Friday night, the question turned to who else would be available among Celtics coach Doc Rivers' walking wounded. The Celtics' once commanding 3-0 series lead has shrunk to 3-2, with Boston feeling the effects of a desperate opponent who has come out with elbows flaring. The availability of the Celtics' Glen Davis (concussion), Marquis Daniels (concussion), Rasheed Wallace (back) and Tony Allen (twisted ankle) will all be game-time decisions Friday. All but Allen sustained their injuries in Wednesday's 113-92 lossto the Magic. They piled on to other nagging ailments. Perkins (sprained right wrist) and Rajon Rondo (muscle spasms) are hurting, too. 'We have a lot of bumps and bruises right now, but we'll be OK,' Rivers said. Possibly. Should the Celtics advance to the NBA finals, they will take with them a series of aches and pains they might have avoided had they closed out Orlando earlier. As mightily as the Celtics started the series, they appear just as humbled now, a byproduct of Orlando's aggression, Jameer Nelson's improved play and the Magic's rediscovery of its stroke beyond the 3-point line. 'Last night was just a surreal night in a lot of ways,' Rivers said of Wednesday's game, in which the Magic made 13 of 25 3-point attempts. Rivers sounded optimistic that Davis would play but less so that Daniels would. It seemed the only player Rivers had not been concerned about was Perkins. Perkins received his second technical of the game for arguing a personal foul with official Eddie F. Rush in the second quarter; the first came in a double technical for engaging Orlando's Marcin Gortat. If both technical fouls had stood, Perkins' total of seven in the postseason would have resulted in an automatic one-game suspension Friday. 'I got the news and I was almost more disappointed than happy and relieved because I knew he'd play tomorrow,' Rivers said. 'But I was pretty sure that both of them would be rescinded. I'm really surprised they're not.' Rivers said he was disappointed that the NBA also upgraded one of Paul Pierce's personal fouls to a flagrant-1, and called double technicals 'an easy way to try to control the game.' Perkins will still draw a one-game suspension with another technical. 'Dwight Howard is clearly the most physical player on the floor,' Rivers said. 'We keep telling Perkins he has to be physical, and he says, 'Yeah, but I end up in foul trouble.' We are really concerned about that.' The Celtics will gladly use Perkins's size and six fouls against Howard, as he may be their most serviceable frontcourt player entering Game 6. Davis' concussion occurred in the third quarter when Howard inadvertently hit him with an elbow. Daniels went down when he crashed into Gortat's chest. The Magic has outscored the Celtics in every fourth quarter of the series. Despite the prolonged struggles of Vince Carter, J.J. Redick has surfaced as Orlando's 'most consistent player in this series,' Rivers said. Redick scored 14 points Wednesday and is averaging 12 in the series while making 56 percent of his 3-pointers. 'We can't know he was going to be Pistol Pete coming into this series,' Rivers said. 'But we did expect him to be a great player.' Rivers takes comfort knowing the Celtics have been in this predicament before. So has the Magic. Last year, Orlando became the first team in 33 series to take a series in which Boston led by 3-2. 'We're down, 3-2,' Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy said. 'That's where we are. I don't think that it matters that we were down, 3-0, at this point. And I don't think that in the long haul it really matters beyond the fact that it kept us in the series that we've won the last two.' This comeback would take even more of a Herculean effort than last year's. Of the 94 NBA teams that have fallen behind by 3-0 in a best-of-seven playoff series, the Magic is the 10th to force a Game 6. Only three teams have forced a Game 7, and none won the series. It has happened in other sports, including the NHL, where the Boston Bruins this month lost to the Philadelphia Flyers after building a 3-0 series lead. 'It's not hockey,' Garnett said, when asked if the Bruins' plight served as a cautionary tale. 'The Bruins are not the Celts. The Celts are not the Bruins.' Maybe there is some bad karma left at TD Garden from the Bruins' series. If so, the Celtics hope to get rid of it Friday, aches and all. 'We made it look easy early on, and now it is becoming a fight,' Garnett said. 