{"id":439204,"date":"2025-04-24T08:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=439204"},"modified":"2025-04-24T08:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:12:06","slug":"kristaps-porzingis-shrugs-off-blood-and-pain-i-love-my-wwe-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kristaps-porzingis-shrugs-off-blood-and-pain-i-love-my-wwe-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristaps Porzingis shrugs off blood and pain: I love my WWE moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1235\" data-end=\"1493\"><strong data-start=\"1235\" data-end=\"1257\">Kristaps Porzingis<\/strong> turned a bloody forehead into a moment of glory. After taking an elbow from Goga Bitadze that opened a gash requiring five stitches, the Celtics big man walked off smiling and came back to seal the <strong data-start=\"1456\" data-end=\"1470\">Game 2 win<\/strong> over Orlando, 109-100.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1495\" data-end=\"1762\">&#8220;I love these moments,&#8221; he said, recalling a similar incident earlier in April. \u201cMy legs work, everything works. So of course I came back.\u201d Porzingis finished with <strong data-start=\"1659\" data-end=\"1688\">20 points and 10 rebounds<\/strong>, energizing the crowd and igniting chants of \u201cK-P! K-P!\u201d upon his return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1764\" data-end=\"2019\">Coach <strong data-start=\"1770\" data-end=\"1786\">Joe Mazzulla<\/strong> praised Porzingis\u2019 toughness and poise, calling his presence vital for Boston\u2019s identity. With <strong data-start=\"1882\" data-end=\"1895\">Tatum out<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1897\" data-end=\"1913\">Jaylen Brown<\/strong> led the way with <strong data-start=\"1931\" data-end=\"1944\">36 points<\/strong>, but it was Porzingis\u2019 resilience that embodied the Celtics\u2019 playoff grit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kristaps Porzingis was born to play for the Boston Celtics.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rHqQHtMW5t\">pic.twitter.com\/rHqQHtMW5t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud835\udc69\ud835\udc90\ud835\udc94\ud835\udc95\ud835\udc90\ud835\udc8f\u2019\ud835\udc94 \ud835\udc69\ud835\udc96\ud835\udc93\ud835\udc8f\ud835\udc86\ud835\udc93 (@Tatums0Burner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tatums0Burner\/status\/1915209121420165284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kristaps Porzingis on returning to the game after his gash:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, how could I not come back out. Like, \u2018Oh, I have five stitches, I can\u2019t play anymore.\u2019 No. My legs work, everything works, and of course I\u2019m going to be out there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you know me. I like these moments.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uUwrds8iyd\">pic.twitter.com\/uUwrds8iyd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zack Cox (@zm_cox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zm_cox\/status\/1915237270707163269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Foul on Porzingis lol. Probably fouled him before but he\u2019s gotta be sick after getting hit like that <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WxUOLvZC3o\">pic.twitter.com\/WxUOLvZC3o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EJ\u2019s Waterboy (@EJzWaterboy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EJzWaterboy\/status\/1915208132130701488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kristaps Porzingis looks like he just got into a car accident <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OgFgPjKOpu\">pic.twitter.com\/OgFgPjKOpu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Coby\u2019s Gambling Corner (@CobyValentine24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CobyValentine24\/status\/1915208781836722222?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kristaps Porzingis hyping up Celtics fans, as he\u2019s bleeding EVERYWHERE<\/p>\n<p>I love KP man. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/usaD1oldIq\">pic.twitter.com\/usaD1oldIq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud835\ude41\ud835\ude67\ud835\ude5a\ud835\ude59 \u2618\ufe0f (@BOSFred7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BOSFred7\/status\/1915208146202640719?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristaps Porzingis turned a bloody forehead into a moment of glory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":439203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-439204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/GpQwNjrWUAA4DtU.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439204"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=439204"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=439204"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=439204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}