The Warriors made a splashy addition at the 2026 NBA trade deadline by shipping Jonathan Kuminga to the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for Kristaps Porziņģis.

While Porziņģis is the more established and proven player, the Hawks do seem like the victors of the trade at the moment, as Porziņģis has appeared in just one game with Golden State. The 30-year-old big man, who was a part of the Boston Celtics’ 2024 NBA championship squad, has been dealing with an illness that Warriors coach Steve Kerr called “mysterious” on Monday when asked if he had any clarity on the situation.

“Not really,” Kerr told reporters before the Warriors’ game against the Los Angeles Clippers at Chase Center. “It’s a little mysterious. We’re obviously working with him and hoping that he can get some clarity, and he can break through and get to a point where he’s consistently healthy. That’s something that the medical staff is working hard on with him. I’m not going to even posit any medical theories anymore.”

“It’s a little mysterious. Obviously, we’re working with him and hoping that he can get some clarity and he can break through and get to a point where he’s consistently healthy.”

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The latter part of Kerr’s quote stems from an answer he gave over the weekend on 95.7 The Game, awhen the coach shared Hawks general manager Onsi Saleh told him Porziņģis doesn’t have postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and labeled the public diagnosis as “misinformation.”

Kerr did walk back his answer earlier this week, saying he made a “stupid mistake” by discussing a subject matter he wasn’t qualified to discuss.

“It was a stupid mistake by me to talk about something that I’m not qualified to talk about, so I regret it,” Kerr said to reporters. “Even trying to discuss the diagnosis, that was my mistake and I need to leave that to the professionals.”

Porziņģis was ruled out for Monday’s Warriors-Clippers game — his fifth consecutive absence with the illness since making his Golden State debut against the Boston Celtics on Feb. 19. His status for the Warriors’ upcoming three-game road trip, which begins Thursday against the Rockets in Houston, remains unclear.

The Warriors are going into Monday night’s game against the Los Angeles Clippers sitting 2.5 games ahead of them in the standings, with Golden State currently occupying the No. 8 seed.

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