Kristaps Porzingis plans to have surgery on his injured left leg, which will require a recovery process over a “few months.”
Porzingis suffered a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon in his left leg in Game 2.
Porzingis, however, returned to play in Game 5 as the Boston Celtics closed out the 2024 NBA Finals over the Dallas Mavericks.
“Of course,” Porzingis told ESPN, when asked if he was concerned about making his injury worse by playing on it. “I think something could have happened, for sure, especially compensating now on the other leg now, which I just came back from.
“There was definitely some added risk, but I didn’t care. I was like, ‘I want to give everything I can and then fix it after if I need to.'”