Moments after Boston’s victory in Game 2 of the 2024 NBA Finals, Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla said he had no worries about the leg injury that center Kristaps Porziņģis appeared to suffer in the second half of the 105-98 victory.
“No, he’s good,” Mazzulla said.
Neither did Porziņģis, who played just three minutes and 26 seconds in the fourth quarter of the second game before leaving for good with 4:40 remaining.
“I feel good,” he said. “Yeah, I don’t think it’s anything serious.”
So…about that:
All it took was a last-minute press release, released just as the Celtics opened their media availability at the American Airlines Center on Tuesday, to send sports fans and journalists in search of a sprint in medical school that could allow them to become experts in the ins and outs of the medial retinaculum. (First step in the process? Learn what there is more than one of them.)
The Celtics’ press release’s claim that the “torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibal tendon in (Porziņģis’s) left leg” is a “rare injury” is supported by the fact that the athletic trainer and injury expert Jeff Stotts of In Street Clothes says he has “only one real (comparison)” due to the tear in its extensive database.
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