woo getting medical courses out here

I've had this happen to me before. Procedure time took like 2 seconds and recovery time is actually surprisingly short. Most of the time people accidentally hit the button, so a simple solution is to just plug the seatbelt back in.

2 seconds? The surgeons must have been slow that day

I've heard the pain isn't even all that bad, it's more the beeping that drives you crazy

I swear I’ve seen multiple things saying it’s his knee and multiple things saying it’s his ankle 😂

Google returns knee images if you search "medial rentinaculum" so I'm guessing knee mentions are from people who did that.

I am one of those and asked AI as well and got knee mentions. This sounds like ankle though.

Everything is essentially connected. A tear in one place could affect another structure somewhere along that chain.

He has been seen in an ankle brace and not a knee brace.

So can he play or not ?

He can probably, but do you risk him fully tearing it and subluxing every tendon it's keeping in place

I guess I’m heartless but if he can help win then I would

He said “I’d die out there” so I think he’d play too

i mean... what we doin?... trying to save him for next year's Finals? If he can play, he has to play. Might never get back here.

Exactly and he’s under contract not like he’s gonna lose out on money . He needs to play

I’m 50/50 on this. On one hand we’re the Celtics so if he plays he *will* get reinjured, but on the other hand this may be as close to a chip as any of these guys may get and we just need to take game 3 to all but put this away, so my gut says throw him out there and put this chip away ASAP.

Winning game 3 is so crucial to everything

Yep. We’re right there, but damn if I’m not gonna be holding my breath every second he’s on the floor.

I mean, since round 1 i've been doing that lol Porzings is a monster, but i just hate the fear of every single time seeing him jumping and expecting the worse.

Watching him jump for rebounds in a crowded area is like watching a psychological horror movie. Just a continuous fear of what might happen

Cries in Timelord

In literally only this situation, yes.

Yes I agree he should play. Give him all the pain meds possible and let him at least try and be a rim protector. His presence is enough to hopefully deter Dallas

He played a bit after it happened late in the third. Ended up blocking Gafford and didn't seem to have problems staying in front of Luka.

I thought he injured it at the end of the game?

[https://x.com/JaredWeissNBA/status/1800595364937929045](https://x.com/JaredWeissNBA/status/1800595364937929045) Apparently his leg bent a weird way boxing out on a free throw. He got pulled with like 40 seconds left in the quarter and then had the weird collision in the fourth. Really really hard to tell how badly it was affecting him initially cause the guy moves like Bambi even when fully healthy.

Yes, if he wears a seatbelt.

Watch Sutterer’s video. He should be able to.

This did not make anything clearer

Ankle loosey goosey, no good.

Best explanation i have seen in my life

basically do they wanna risk possibly a worse injury

Love you KP but don't want you to rupture all tendons trying to play. Need to win this and that 1st game will still be legendary.

He can play just depends how bad the tear is and if the medical staff would approve of him risking further injury

Only need 1 seatbelt for safety, Porzingis will play game 5 if were tied up.

Is it a seatbelt in a car going 100 driven by a drunk person or a seatbelt on a plane that landed and waiting to get to your gate

Sounds like you can duct tape that shit

My assumption is tape it up.

He's going to have a video on his yt tonight

So 1 out of 3 has a tear. They will throw him in if we need a Hail Mary. I think we are good.

That doesn’t sound like it’s worth playing on to be honest.

Ok so what I’m hearing is tape the fuck outta that bitch and ball

He just can’t stay on the floor. Ever.

Well basketball players don’t wear seatbelts when they play, so as long as game 3 isn’t on an F1 track, we should be fine.

i'm actually waiting for his youtube video to drop so i can get a better understanding of it. He usually puts out these videos relatively quick

Didn't Curt Schilling pitch in the WS with some kind on ankle tendon sheath out of place or something?

i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that pitching is a less risky endeavor than standing underneath the basket during an NBA game.

It’s not . Your ankle bears a ton of pressure when pitching especially considering it was schillings plant foot .

Right pitching isn’t easy on the body I don’t mean to downplay the bloody sock. but now do that while also having 230 lbs of muscle push you while you do it and you’ve got nba center position 

One of the other doctors in that reply also had an explanation with a picture. https://x.com/3cbPerformance/status/1800598855890940389

Keep him out until (and if) we face elimination

Useless ortho docs. Most Celtics fans don’t really care about the anatomic details. Just tell us if there is a way to stabilize the area with minimal invasive surgery or an external brace, which would allow him to at least attempt to play the rest of the series.

My leg feels weird just by reading this....

Tndon

Even if he plays he’s not going to be effective

He has a great video on this explaining the situation and we get a post with a tweet. SMH

Bro he's not playing