{"id":12990,"date":"2025-05-06T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/12990\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:55:10","slug":"celtics-kristaps-porzingis-misses-2nd-half-of-game-1-loss-to-knicks-because-of-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/12990\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; Kristaps Porzingis misses 2nd half of Game 1 loss to Knicks because of illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1735699\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1735699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2213067854-scaled-e1746509108516-784x441.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"784\" height=\"441\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1735699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristaps Porzingis misses the 2nd half of Game 1 due to a non-Covid illness.<\/p>\n<p>BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Celtics center Kristaps Porzingis didn\u2019t play in the second half of Boston\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/nyk-vs-bos-0042400211\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">108-105 overtime loss<\/a> to the New York Knicks in Game 1 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/playoffs\/2025\/east-semifinal-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Conference semifinals<\/a> because of an illness.<\/p>\n<p>Porzingis wasn\u2019t on the floor initially with the team Monday night as they warmed up prior to the start of the second half.<\/p>\n<p>He came out of the tunnel and joined them briefly in the bench area, but then returned to the locker room. Al Horford started the third quarter in his place.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics announced Porzingis was questionable to return with an illness that they specified was non-Covid.<\/p>\n<p>Reserve Sam Hauser also didn\u2019t return after leaving the game early in the fourth quarter with a sprained right ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Porzingis was 0-for-4 in 13 minutes of the first half, with four rebounds and an assist. Hauser missed both of his shots in four minutes of action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kristaps Porzingis misses the 2nd half of Game 1 due to a non-Covid illness. BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Celtics&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,5231,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-12990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-kristaps-porzingis-illness","10":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114460290152788868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}