Kristaps Porzingis' Injury and His Impact on NBA Finals Explained

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00:00All right, so do we spend any time on Chris Tapps Porzingis in our conversation, Kyle?

00:08Is it necessary at this point?

00:09I mean, if they play him, great.

00:11If not, great.

00:12Does it matter?

00:13Like, I mean, we made way too much of this guy going into the series.

00:16I understand he's a good player, but I mean, I don't know, Boston plays Dallas 10 times

00:21more without him.

00:22They probably win seven, eight times, right?

00:23Like I mean, I'm not taking anything away from him, but it's just not a factor.

00:27It just doesn't seem to matter.

00:29Yeah, he was really good in game one.

00:31I thought he did a great job of setting the tone in the series in those first two games,

00:35even playing unlimited minutes.

00:36But you know, to me, this feels like they're calling it a rare injury.

00:39There's obviously not that much information out there about it.

00:42He looks like he's walking around completely fine.

00:44Like if you just saw the videos on social media, you would think that he would be able

00:46to play, but the medical staff ruled them out for game three.

00:49I'm sure he is going to be doing everything that he can to play in this game tonight with

00:54the Larry O'Brien trophy in the building and the possibility of, you know, participating

00:57in that before, you know, the Celtics have a chance to hoist that trophy.

01:01But you know, I'm not sure the medical staff is going to let him go again.

01:03They're up three on the series.

01:04You know, he's already made his contributions to this team all season long.

01:08I don't know why they would risk re-injuring, you know, that foot and ankle injury that

01:13he has going on.

01:14So I honestly don't expect Porzingis to suit up.

01:16I'm not sure it's going to make a major difference the way that we saw in game three, but I'm

01:19sure he's going to do everything he can to be out there.