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Kristaps Porziņģis has a right soleus strain, so this is a calf strain...I'm told this is going to be treated like a week to week injury, could be 1-2 weeks for Kristaps Porziņģis, could be even longer than that based on his rehab."
@ShamsCharania
on Kristaps Porziņģis' injury
There's no way we're seeing him in the 2nd round.
I wouldn’t think so either, but as long as he’s back by the conference finals it will be okay.
Absolutely.
For who is wondering, this is pretty much what Chris Haynes just said, too. They're going to be careful with him and expect him to be out all the second round, with a plan for him to be ready for the ECF should we advance, which would be a little over three weeks from the date of the injury. Seems to be the most realistic scenario.
The more interesting question will be this - do we start him once he comes back, or stick with Al and bring KP off the bench to limit his minutes some? That may be the smarter idea, especially if we end up playing against an Embiid in the ECF and Jokic in the Finals. This is less needed against the New York bigs or Turner in Indy, but will be interesting to see what we do.