{"id":611225,"date":"2026-02-19T08:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/611225\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:20:20","slug":"former-celtics-champions-injury-status-in-question-in-warriors-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/611225\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Celtics champion\u2019s injury status in question in Warriors game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 When the Celtics face the Warriors on Wednesday, Al Horford and Kristaps Porzingis could both face the Celtics for the very first time since their respective tenures in Boston ended last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Porzingis is questionable to play against the Celtics as he continues to deal with a left Achilles tendon injury, while Horford is good to go.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>How Al Horford and Kristaps Porzingis have fared this season <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Al Horford signed a two-year contract with the Warriors in free agency, while Kristaps Porzingis was traded to the Atlanta Hawks in a cost-cutting move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Now, both Celtics champions will lace up against their former squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Both players have had somewhat underwhelming years by their own standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Horford is averaging 7.6 points and 4.9 rebounds in 20.6 minutes per game, while shooting 42.9% from the field and 33.8% from three. He dealt with sciatica early in the season, ultimately appearing in just 34 of the Warriors\u2019 55 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Porzingis has yet to make his Warriors debut, but he averaged 17.1 points in 17 games for the Atlanta Hawks. Porzingis was traded to the Warriors ahead of the trade deadline after an injury-riddled first-half of the season. While the Celtics and Hawks faced off twice before the trade deadline, Porzingis did not lace up for either game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">While Porzingis is questionable to play, it seems likely he\u2019ll be suiting up. At the Warriors\u2019 practice on Wednesday, Porzingis indicated he\u2019s likely to make his Warriors debut on Thursday against his former squad, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GwashburnGlobe\/status\/2024296826913116230\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Boston Globe\u2019s Gary Washburn;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Boston Globe\u2019s Gary Washburn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s gonna be weird, especially the first game back against Boston,\u201d Porzingis said, per Washburn. \u201cIt\u2019s gonna be cool, seeing all the guys again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Horford, meanwhile, is not on the injury report for the Warriors and thus should be good to go.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Celtics, Warriors are missing key stars<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For the Warriors, Jimmy Butler is out for the remainder of the season with a torn ACL, while Seth Curry (left sciatic nerve irritation) and Steph Curry (right patellofemoral pain) are also both out.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For the Celtics, the only player on the injury report is Jayson Tatum, who has yet to play this season as he recovers from a ruptured Achilles tendon. Tatum\u2019s potential return continues to loom, but he said last week he has yet to make a decision about lacing up this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Warriors (29-26) currently hold the Western Conference\u2019s 8th-best record, while the Celtics (35-19) have the East\u2019s second-best record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 When the Celtics face the Warriors on Wednesday, Al Horford and Kristaps Porzingis could both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[869,676,208,3874,7,45,75,677,77,313,871,6,76,10133,932,859,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-611225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-hawks","8":"tag-al-horford","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-hawks","11":"tag-atlantahawks","12":"tag-basketball","13":"tag-boston","14":"tag-boston-celtics","15":"tag-hawks","16":"tag-jayson-tatum","17":"tag-jimmy-butler","18":"tag-kristaps-porzingis","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-orlando-magic","21":"tag-seth-curry","22":"tag-steph-curry","23":"tag-the-warriors","24":"tag-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116096324351844984","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611225","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=611225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}