"Sometimes it makes sense, and this time, it didn’t make sense. ... It’s weird, weird, weird, honestly. Super weird."

Porzingis averaged 19.5 points and 6.8 rebounds this season, his second with the Celtics. The 29-year-old averaged 12 points and 5.8 rebounds per game in their opening-round series against the Orlando Magic, too. Porzingis is in the first year of a two-year, $60 million deal with the team.

BOSTON (AP) — Celtics center Kristaps Porzingis didn’t play in the second half of Boston’s 108-105 overtime loss to the New York Knicks in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals because of an illness. Porzingis wasn’t on the floor initially with the team Monday night as they warmed up prior to the start of the second half.