Kristaps Porziņgis didn’t get much of an offseason to celebrate his first championship with the Celtics—his summer was all about recovery. Just days after Boston’s victory parade, he went under the knife to repair a torn retinaculum and a dislocated posterior tibialis tendon, an injury he picked up in Game 2 of the NBA Finals against Dallas.
He was back in November. But he was out again after playing against the Pistons in late February, this time with a non-COVID illness. He remained out for 7 games, and the questions were mounting. Because there was no clarification on what is he diagnosed with. But now the 7-foot-one center has cleared the air surrounding his illness.
He opened about it after being instrumental in the Celtics victory over the Nets. The Celtics big man admitted the experience was frustrating, especially since he wasn’t sure what was wrong at first.“Yeah, it was extremely, extremely frustrating not knowing what I had,” Porziņgis said. “And at the end, it was some sort of—I don’t know exactly, but I think it was some sort of upper respiratory thing that turned into, like, something heavier. Like bronchitis is the word. Uh, something like that along those lines.”
Porziņgis, who rarely gets sick, said the illness left him completely drained for over a week. “I haven’t been sick for probably ever in my life. So I was really for a week just laying at home, trying to recover,” he explained. “And after that, I still had lingering fatigue, and I still have it a little bit. But at least I’m now getting into more or less shape form to be able to play.”
Even as he works his way back, the lingering effects are noticeable. “After each workout, I was—boom—big crash,” he said. “So it was really fatigue. It’s, like, not normal. And so it’s taking a little bit longer, but I’m doing everything all my biohacking stuff that I know, and just trying to—trying to get back in the best shape as possible.”
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