Apparently for the past week, Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla knew that star center Kristaps Porzingis would be making his season debut on Monday against the Los Angeles Clippers.
As for the rest of us, we only found out about eight hours before tipoff, when Celtics Wire’s Cameron Tabatabaie broke the news.
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Porzingis hadn’t played since Game 5 of the NBA Finals, before suiting up against the Clippers. He had been working his way back from a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon in his left leg, throughout the summer and opening months of this season.