{"id":365274,"date":"2025-11-08T20:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365274\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T20:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:15:14","slug":"hawks-rule-kristaps-porzingis-out-with-illness-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365274\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks rule Kristaps Porzingis out with illness management"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/youngmisuk_ohm.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Ohm YoungmisukNov 8, 2025, 02:36 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Ohm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since 2006. Prior to that, he covered the Nets, Knicks and the NBA for nearly a decade. He joined ESPNNewYork.com after working at the New York Daily News for almost 12 years and is a graduate of Michigan State University.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NotoriousOHM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow him on Twitter \u00bb<\/a><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"15096a54-f015-c987-5ec8-55afedf6272f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-hawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> have ruled <a data-player-guid=\"a1f467e2-5304-c8c1-db23-80fe313c3d7c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3102531\/kristaps-porzingis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> out for Saturday night&#8217;s game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2876e98b-b9bc-2920-4319-46e6943f8be4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Porzingis will be held out of the Hawks&#8217; second game of a back-to-back due to illness management. Porzingis missed two consecutive games earlier this season with flu-like symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Porzingis was severely slowed by an illness in the postseason that limited him to 7.7 points and 4.6 rebounds in 21 minutes per game in 11 playoff games for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Porzingis &#8212; who is averaging 17.6 points, 6.3 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per game this season after being traded to the Hawks over the summer &#8212; said during training camp that he was completely healed from the illness.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks are already short-handed with star point guard <a data-player-guid=\"5745cf6d-e0cb-7585-60cd-97f7891bbeef\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4277905\/trae-young\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trae Young<\/a> out for at least a month with a right knee MCL sprain. Reserve guard <a data-player-guid=\"668a6a14-4003-d79c-c252-0ece0a960d36\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3913174\/luke-kennard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Kennard<\/a> will miss his second straight game due to illness, and <a data-player-guid=\"15d2df5c-10d8-36a2-98b5-faa3ccda8749\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5144067\/nikola-durisic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Durisic<\/a> is out with a right elbow sprain.<\/p>\n<p>Emerging star forward <a data-player-guid=\"a3bb4b30-41a4-3cb0-abea-2e1746695cb8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4701230\/jalen-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Johnson<\/a> (right quad contusion) and guard <a data-player-guid=\"a67ef214-b56f-ca43-1558-7b2d13432f63\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4278039\/nickeil-alexander-walker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nickeil Alexander-Walker<\/a> (low back strain) are listed as questionable against the Lakers after playing in Friday night&#8217;s loss to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5a9c33b8-63fd-ff34-a833-925fe89320a6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-raptors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohm YoungmisukNov 8, 2025, 02:36 PM ET Close Ohm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":365275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-365274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115515918383143021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}