by After being excluded on Monday for a sixth consecutive game, Boston Celtics Center Kristaps Porziņġis announced on social media that he is suffering from a ‘viral disease’.
“I have had to deal with some viral disease that we cannot fully identify,” wrote Porziņġis. “I am recovering and get better. But still work back to full [strength] To help this team. Thank you for [your] Support and [I’m] Hope quickly for a healthy return. “
I have had to deal with some viral disease that we cannot fully identify. I’m recovering and get better. But I still work back to full power to help this team. Thank you for the support and I hope for a healthy return soon. 🙏💚 pic.twitter.com/3hdjvdyrg3
– Kristaps porzingis (@kporzee) March 11, 2025
Porziņġis, 29, is on average 18.9 points, 6.8 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.6 blocks in 28.9 minutes per match, shoot 53% on 2-PINTERS and a career-high 40% from outside the 3-point arch.
With Porziņġis again not available on Monday, the Celtics led the humble Utah Jazz with no less than 24 points before they wasted all that advantage to be in a draw with just over three minutes. But thanks to a few timely plays and attacking rebound, 3-pointer and comic of Jrue Holiday, a stem and dunk van Jaylen Brown, and a dagger transition 3 by Sam Hauser-Konden de Celtics de Underdog-Jazz to get away with an 114-108 victory and improvement of 47-18.
Porziņġis was last suitable in Boston’s Blowout loss for the Detroit Pistons on 26 February and scored 11 points on 4-out-11 shooting with three steals, two rebounds and an assist. The Celtics were surpassed in the 26 minutes of Porziņġis with 24 points – a version that he described as ‘terrible’. The Latvian big man had missed several previous matches – against the clippers on January 22, the Knicks on 8 February and the Raptors on 25 February – also due to illness.
“I mean, he is sick,” said Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla reporters before Boston won the Philadelphia 76ers last week. “He enters the facility every day and tries to get shots up, sweat. He just doesn’t feel good, but he works to come back. “
The persistent disease is going on what a difficult season was for Porziņġis, who missed the opening month during the recovery of surgery outside of season to restore a torn retinaculum and disrupted posterior tibialis in his left ankle -an injury he laid out during the NBA Final of the only Christmas in the same day in the same day in the same day in the same day in the same day in the same day in the same day in the same day in the same day in the same day in the same day in the same thing in the same thing in the same day in the same day in the same day. mid -season; He still has to play at both ends of a back-to-back during the 2024-25 campaign and has appeared in just 32 of the 65 games of the Celtics.
Boston has hardly missed a beat without porziņġis. The C’s have gone 27-6 in the 33 games he has missed and outscored opponents by 11.9 points per 100 non-garbage-time Possessions with the 7-Foot-2 center off the floor, According to cleaning the Glass, with Replacements Al horford, Neetias to Neetia to Neeta’s to Neetias and Neetias ACE Perimeter Players Jayson Tatum, Brown, Holiday, Derrick White and Payton Pritchard.
However, the after-season comes the combination of five-out floor distance, rim protection and mismatch plug-in after the game that a healthy porziņġis offers is worth its weight in gold. Making him healthy, back in the fold and lifted for the late season is a must for a Celtics team with his sights that are aimed at defending his NBA title.
“I know it is difficult for him not to be to play with us and he does everything to come back,” White told reporters on Monday. “He knows that we have always received his back and we know that he does everything he has to do to come back and try to find out what is going on. When he comes back, it will be great to have him. ‘
