NEW YORK -- Boston Celtics center Kristaps Porzingis scored 24 points in 32 minutes Saturday in a 115-113 win over the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center, ending an 8-game stint on the sidelines with an illness.
"It was extremely, extremely frustrating, just not knowing what I had," Porzingis said afterward, adding that it was an upper respiratory illness that eventually developed into something like bronchitis or mononucleosis. "But I haven't been this sick for probably ever in my life. So I was really, for a week really just laying at home trying to recover.