Following the Game 6 loss, Porzingis addressed the media with his Boston future up in the air. Per Boston Globe's Gary Washburn, the 7-foot-3 star, despite his illness, revealed his plan to play in August's EuroBasket, an international tournament for national teams in Europe.

Celtics Superstar Jayson Tatum Suffers Torn Achilles to End Season But, one of the bigger storylines from this series was the health of star center Kristaps Porzingis. Porzingis was in and out of the lineup for the Celtics during the entire series due to a strange illness that he was dealing with.

"He was having difficulty breathing, but he wanted to be out there. If we absolutely needed him, we would have been able to go to him.” The post Everything went the Celtics’ way in Game 5, other than further concern over Kristaps Porzingis’s lingering illness appeared first on Boston.