Celtics center Kristaps Porzingis will miss the rest of the team’s first-round series against the Miami Heat and likely the start of the Eastern Conference semifinals, if Boston is able to move on.
Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla gave the update Wednesday during an interview with 98.5 The Sports Hub’s “Zolak & Bertrand” radio show.
“I don’t know the specifics of it; they use a lot of fancy words. But I do know it will be re-evaluated next week,” Mazzulla said. “We’ll see how he responds to the treatment and how much better he gets here in the first week. That’s kind of the goal is to rehab it like crazy over the next week and see where we’re at from there.
The Miami Heat are hoping to avoid elimination tonight against the Boston Celtics.
The Celtics are ahead 3-1 in the best-of-7 series entering Game 5 in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoff. The Heat gained some momentum with a victory in Game 2, but lost both games in Miami. It doesn’t get any easier because they are playing without forward Jaime Jaquez, who is dealing with a hip injury. The Heat are already down Terry Rozier and Jimmy Butler, who are sidelined indefinitely because of injuries.
