{"id":482544,"date":"2026-02-06T08:37:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=482544"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:37:03","slug":"golden-state-warriors-confident-kristaps-porzingis-is-close-to-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/golden-state-warriors-confident-kristaps-porzingis-is-close-to-returning\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden State Warriors confident Kristaps Porzingis is close to returning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1710\" data-end=\"2031\"><strong data-start=\"1710\" data-end=\"1739\">The Golden State Warriors<\/strong> expect <strong data-start=\"1747\" data-end=\"1769\">Kristaps Porzingis<\/strong> to meet the team in Los Angeles on Friday night ahead of Saturday\u2019s game against <strong data-start=\"1851\" data-end=\"1877\">The Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong>. Coach <strong data-start=\"1885\" data-end=\"1899\">Steve Kerr<\/strong> said he\u2019s skeptical Porzingis will be medically cleared in time for that matchup, but expects him back in a key rotation role soon.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2033\" data-end=\"2343\">Kerr said the Warriors wouldn\u2019t have made the deal if they didn\u2019t believe Porzingis could be healthy and consistently available. Porzingis has played only 17 games this season due to the continuing impact of <strong data-start=\"2241\" data-end=\"2293\">postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)<\/strong> and, most recently, <strong data-start=\"2314\" data-end=\"2342\">left Achilles tendinitis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2345\" data-end=\"2683\">Kerr added that lead medical decision-maker <strong data-start=\"2389\" data-end=\"2407\">Rick Celebrini<\/strong> and the staff did their due diligence and green-lit the move, anticipating a return imminently. <strong data-start=\"2504\" data-end=\"2521\">Stephen Curry<\/strong> echoed the point, saying he\u2019s excited for a healthy Porzingis and highlighting the size, shooting, spacing and rim protection the Warriors have been looking for.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2685\" data-end=\"2774\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porzingis is expected to meet the team in Los Angeles on Friday as Golden State cites medical due diligence amid POTS and left Achilles tendinitis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371846,"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":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-482544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Golden-State-Warriors.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482544","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=482544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482544"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=482544"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=482544"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=482544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}