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Center Kristaps Porzingis, who played through a rare left leg injury as the Boston Celtics claimed their record-setting 18th NBA championship, will have surgery "in the coming days" and will miss the Olympics, it was announced Tuesday.
Porzingis suffered a torn retinaculum and dislocated posterior tibialis tendon in Game 2 of the NBA Finals on June 9. He missed Games 3 and 4, but returned in Game 5 as the Celtics beat the Dallas Mavericks to win the title.
He had hoped to postpone the procedure until after he had competed for the Latvian national team in Paris, but the Celtics said in a statement that the injury "doesn't allow for consistent play at the level required for Olympic competition.