Kristaps Porzingis suffered a reasonably gnarly harm within the Celtics’ 109-100 Sport 2 win over the Magic and his coach had a really on-brand response.
Within the third quarter, Porzingis took a tough elbow to the face from Orlando’s Goga Bitadze and was spurting blood from his brow immediately.
WARNING: The picture under comprises blood.
Kristaps Porzingis was bleeding from his head after an elbow from Goga Bitadze.
Bitadze was referred to as for a flagrant 1 foul. pic.twitter.com/64nmKwESQZ
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Bitadze was referred to as for a unfastened ball foul that was later upgraded to a Flagrant 1.
Though the Latvian huge man was clearly damage, he gave the impression to be loving it. He was smiling ear to ear as he left the court docket to get patched up.
Kristaps Porzingis was born to play for the Boston Celtics.pic.twitter.com/rHqQHtMW5t
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He returned to shoot his free throws with a hilariously massive band assist caught in the course of his brow.
Boston followers liked it and hailed it ‘the second Kristaps turned a Boston Celtic.’
The middle addressed the harm after the sport.
“Actually, how might I not come again out?,” Porzingis advised the media. “Like, ‘Oh, I’ve 5 stitches, I can’t play anymore.’ No. My legs work, every little thing works, and naturally I’m going to be on the market.
“And you realize me. I like these moments.”
His coach, Joe Mazzulla, was additionally pleased with the flip of occasions. In true Mazzulla type, he had a really fascinating tackle the entire state of affairs.
“I feel [Porzingis] has an innate skill to take issues very severe and on the identical time have nice perspective,” Mazzulla stated. “You see how I feel he can management his surroundings rather well with how he controls the gang and the way he handles the physicality of it, and he can keep his poise. He simply had an effective way about him.
“I like watching him bleed on the court docket. I feel that’s necessary. After which he comes again in and does his job.”
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