Latvian national basketball player Kristaps Porziņģis could not be allowed to help the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) team in the fifth round of the Dallas “Mavericks” in the fifth round “play-off” game, the club reports.
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Porziņģis’ participation in the match is still under question, according to the unit’s application for injured players.
It has already been reported that the Dallas “Mavericks” defeated the Los Angeles “Clippers” team with the result 135: 133 (24:34, 34:32, 35:19, 28:36, 14:12) on Monday, watching Porziņģis from the reserve bench. In the series, the result after this match is 2-2.
The main character of the game was the Slovenian basketball star Luka Dončič, who won the team by hitting a difficult “siren breaker” at the end of overtime, but scored 43 points, 17 rebounds and 13 assists throughout the game. The basketball player participated in the game despite the dislocated ankle in the third match of the series.
Dončič is also on the list of injured players, but he could take part in the game. Basketball player’s participation in the match is marked as “possible”.
News about Porziņģis’ non-participation in the game due to his right knee was made known only a few minutes before the start of the match. The basketball player warmed up with the team before the match, but the game was watched from the reserve bench. After the game, the team’s head coach Riks Kārlails revealed that Porziņģis will undergo a magnetic resonance imaging examination.
Kristaps Porziņģis was already included in the application of the injured players before the second game of the series due to the right knee. The Mavericks team at the time announced that Porziņģis’ participation in the game was under question. However, the basketball player was able to play a successful enough game, with the Dallas team leveling the score in the series. The basketball player himself admitted after the match that even for him it was a big surprise, because the day before he had not felt too well.
Cross-link injuries 2017/2018. In the season, the basketball player suffered on the left knee. True, it was the pain in his right knee that made him skip ten games in January this year.
However, before the first and third games of the series, the “Mavericks” team admitted that Porziņģis might not play because he had a broken left heel.
