The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Kristaps Porziņģis

The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Kristaps Porziņģis

Christ steps porzingis has gone through a lot in his NBA career he’s gone from being a top five draft pick and being an All-Star to being labeled as a bus due to injuries but after eight years of many ups and downs it seems like porzingis is finally in a situation

Where he can show his full potential and help a team win the Boston Celtics were so close to winning the NBA championship in the past two seasons and general manager Brad Stevens knew that he needed to shake up the roster and increase the Celtics chances of winning the NBA

Championship enter the unic horn that is Christa porzingis Stevens orchestrated a three- team deal to land porzingis in Boston many Celtics fans were skeptical about this trade since it got Marcus Smart the 2022 NBA Defensive Player of the Year out of Boston but what makes Christ staps so good for the Celtics he

Is a versatile big who stretches the floor on the offensive end and can protect the rim switch and guard multiple positions on defense the Celtics are the team with the best record in the league at the midpoint of the season and porzingis deserves a lot of credit for that he’s the perfect fit

And Coach Joe missoula’s starting lineup he plays next to Al Horford an experienced versatile big man and the two can both play inside the paint and shoot from outside the Celtics have two great scorers in Jason Tatum and Jaylen brown but porzingis gets his portion of shots in any given night and is

Averaging over 20 points and seven rebounds per game he’s had better numbers than those but what makes him more valuable for his team is the fact that for the first time in his career porzingis is shooting over 50% from the field playing on a good team and with his experience making a difference

Porzingis has a much better shot s ction and often finds himself open in the paint he is at a career high 53.5% shooting from the field and 33% from Deep por zingus Tatum and brown are all averaging over 20 points per game making the Celtics one of the only three teams

In the league with three players scoring over 20 on a nightly basis however the road to get here was not so smooth for porzingis he grew up in lva and followed in his brother’s footsteps to become a basketball player being almost 7t tall at the age of 15 porzingis caught the

Eye of many agents and ended up in Spain it was obvious that porzingis is a pure basketball unicorn and he made his debut for the senior team before he even turned 18 the NBA was definitely his future and porzingis even declared for the 2014 NBA Draft before turning 19 but

Decided to stay for another year in Europe in the 2014 15 season he was playing in the Spanish ACB league and on the international scene at the Euro Cup porzingis played so well that he was named the winner of the Euro Cup Rising Star Award for the season then Christ

STS decided it was time for the NBA in 2015 with the fourth pick in the 2015 NBA draft the New York Knicks select christops Hingis from leaya latia he last played for Sevilla in Spain porzingis was seen as the biggest International Prospect of the draft the Lakers and the Knicks were among the

Teams with the top five draft pick and they both showed interest in the big man the Nicks had carelo Anthony on the roster aging star power forward Amari stamar was about to leave and the only other exciting thing that happened for Knicks fans in the past decade was L

Sanity it was the first time in 29 years for the Knicks to have a top five draft pick and they wanted to make it worthy Phil Jackson recently took over the Knicks president role and this was his first pick for the team before becoming one of the best coaches in NBA history

With the Bulls and the Lakers Jackson was a member of the Knicks 1970 and 1973 championship teams and it seemed like he knew what to do with this draft pick to the surprise of many Jackson decided to go with porzingis and that was not something that the Knicks fans were

Hoping for F face and perhaps Chris porzingis porzingis was inserted into the Nick starting lineup right away and had a solid rookie season in the second month of the Season porzingis had 24 points 14 rebounds and seven block shots to lead the Knicks to a 107 102 victory

Over the Houston Rockets becoming the first 20-year-old to post such a statline in a single game since Shaquille O’Neal did in the 1992 93 season later in the season porzingis posted a then career-high 29 Points and 10 rebounds in a 115 107 win over the Chicago Bulls being only one point short

Of becoming the first rookie since Patrick euwing to put up 30 points and 10 rebounds in a single game for the Knicks he finished his rookie season averaging 14.3 points 7.3 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game finishing second in the NBA Rookie of the Year award voting behind Carl Anthony towns porzingis was

Proving everyone wrong and established himself as the New Rising Star for the Knicks in his sophomore season porzingis missed 16 games due to injuries and finished with 18.1 points 7.2 rebounds and two blocks per game then in his third year the 201718 season was porzingis is breakout year with Carmelo

Anthony gone porzingis was the main man in New York he took on the challenge of having the best start to a season for a Knicks player scoring 300 points through 10 games two more than Bernard King had to open the 1984 85 season Nicks fans absolutely loved him and porzingis was

Named to the Eastern Conference All-Star team but then things took a wrong turn for porzingis 2 weeks after the All-Star selection in 12 days before the actual game porzingis Tores left ACL and was ruled out for the season he played only 48 games that year averaging 22.7 points

6.6 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game while he was injured the Knicks declined to sign porzingis to a contract extension and thus he demanded a trade it was obvious that he would miss the entire 201819 season in the middle of it porzingis was traded alongside Trey Burg

Courney Lee and Tim Hardway Jr to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for DeAndre Jordan Wesley Matthews Dennis Smith J year an unprotected 2021 first round draft pick and an additional top 10 protected 2023 first round draft pick Mark cubin the Mavericks owner decided to gamble on porzingis as he was the

Type of player DK doisy was and expected to make a great tandem with LCA donic as both were Europeans and played in the Spanish ACB League before coming to the NBA porzingis was then ready to go for the 201920 season he had numerous excellent performances for the Mavs and

Became the first player since Shaquille O’Neal in 2000 to have consecutive 30.5 block games that season porzingis made made his playoff debut in the series against the Los Angeles Clippers he got ejected in the first game of the series and in the following one he suffered a lateral miniscus terar forcing him to

Miss the remainder of the series which the Mavs lost in six games porzingis finished that season averaging 20.4 points 9.9 rebounds in two blocks per game he had surgery in the off season and missed the first nine games of the 2020 21 season he then played in 43

Games that season averaging 20.1 points 8.3 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per game the Mavs face the Clippers again in the opening Playoff round where porzingis numbers dramatically decreased he averaged only 13.1 points per game in the seven game series that saw the Clippers advaned then following That

Season the Coach Rick Carlile left the Mavs after 13 seasons and that was the first off season in which porzingis was not recovering from an injury since he made it to the NBA with porzingis being injured a lot and just not meshing well with the team during the 2021-22 season

The Mavs traded porzingis in a protected 2022 second round draft pick to the Washington Wizards in exchange for Spencer deny and Davis Braton him and Luca showed flashes in their 2.5 years together in Dallas but overall the chemistry just wasn’t there the move to Washington was a huge step back for

Pingis who even though he averaged over 20 points per game in almost three seasons with the Mavs was treated to one of the worst teams in the league the Wizards did not make it to the play in tournament and porzingis finished the season averaging 22.1 points 8.8 rebounds at 1.5 blocks per game

Individually porzingis had his best season in the 2022 23 season quote I’m wanted to get back to having fun and enjoy the game por Zinga said of being traded from Dallas to Washington I was having fun I was doing my thing it just wasn’t the perfect situation but the

Wizards were not even close to making the playoffs which was a huge disappointment for porzingis however he had no major injuries and it was consistently scoring which made him a big trade Target for many teams Washington decided to part ways with their best player Bradley Beal who spent

11 Seasons with the Wizards trading Beal made every player on the roster available and that is when the Celtics came in after failing in the 2022 NBA finals against the Golden State Warriors and last year in game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat the Celtics were aware that

They were one piece away from winning the championship Boston had an excellent front court but it was pretty tiny under the rim porzingis was the main target for the Celtics and even though it wasn’t easy to create a trade scenario for him Brad Stevens made things happen

Porzingis is off to a great start with the Celtics Reviving his career staying healthy is the main focus for porzingis but he’s doing very well so far playing more than 30 minutes per game it is a fact that porzingis has only had 10 playoff appearances in eight seasons in

The league but there is no doubt that he has reached the point where he is capable of helping a team win the Celtics have everything they need to go deep in the playoffs so fingas is not the only one who should take the majority of the load so far he’s doing

Great things shooting the highest percentage of his career and as long as he stays healthy and plays on this level the Celtics are the team to be do you think the Celtics could to win a championship this year OKC is definitely a rising team but I don’t think they

Have the playoff experience to win it this year here would love your thoughts below I would love you could leave a like on this video thank you for watching and have an amazing day

Kristaps Porzingis has gone through a lot in his NBA career. He has gone from being a top 5 draft pick and All-Star to being labeled as a bust due to injuries. But after eight years of many ups and downs, it seems like Porzingis is finally in a situation where he can show his full potential and help a team win. The Boston Celtics were so close to winning the NBA championship in the past two seasons, and General Manager Brad Stevens knew that he needed to shake up the roster and increase the Celtics’ chances of winning the NBA championship.

Enter the unicorn that is Kristaps Porzingis.

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