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.

Porzingis was able to play in all 11 of the Celtics’ playoff games, but his minutes were severely restricted, and he looked like a shell of his usual highly impactful self when he was on the court. He averaged just 15.5 minutes per game in the second-round series against the Knicks, coming off the bench in four of the six contests.

There was a faint hope that the Boston Celtics, even without All-Star forward Jayson Tatum, could defeat the New York Knicks in Game 6 on Friday at Madison Square Garden and send the Eastern Conference semifinals back home for a Game 7.