The Golden State Warriors are set to face the Boston Celtics on Tuesday night, but they will not have to deal with star big man Kristaps Porzingis The Celtics have released their injury report for this game, and Porzingis has been ruled out due to injury management.
While this is a big loss for the Celtics, the Warriors are also without Draymond Green, who is serving his indefinite suspension from the NBA. This leaves both teams down their starting power forwards, which unfortunately does not allow fans to see the Warriors and Celtics match up at full strength.
This game is of course a rematch of the 2022 NBA Finals, but both teams look a lot different from that series. For the Warriors, they have lost some key role players since then, but have begun replacing them with impressive young players. Having also added Chris Paul, the Warriors have another floor general off the bench. As for Boston, they of course added Porzingis, although he is not available for this game, and their other big addition was Jrue Holiday.
Even without Green and Porzingis, this should still be a fun matchup between two teams that have championship aspirations this season. Boston has looked much more like a title team than Golden State has this year, but the Warriors are still hopeful they can turn this season around and be contenders.