The Boston Celtics are looking to get back to the top of the mountain one postseason after defeating the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals last season. The Celtics are off to a good start, after improving to 2-0 in their first-round series against the Orlando Magic on Wednesday night.
After the game, Celtics star Kristaps Porzingis did not hold back after a dust-up he had with Magic center Goga Bitadze. “I love my WWE moments,” Porzingis said, according to ESPN. “And then you know me. I always love engaging with the crowd. And I already knew, getting hit again, blood again — the crowd was going to go with it.”
Bitadze was called for a flagrant foul after delivering an elbow to Porzingis’s face.
“Honestly, how can I not come [back] out?” Porzingis said of emerging from the tunnel with a bloody face to shoot his flagrant free throws. “Like, ‘Oh, I have five stitches, I can’t play anymore.’
“My legs work, everything works, so of course I’m going to be out there. And you know me. I like these moments. Coming back out again, getting a little love from the crowd. It just happens within the game, and this is not going to stop me. So I’m going to keep going.”
Porzingis also talked about the tough mentality the Cs are taking into the playoffs.
“We’re not going to let anybody punk us,” Porzingis said. “And we expect teams to be doing this kind of stuff, to get in our heads, to try to provoke us, to try to maybe get some reaction out of us, some technical [foul] maybe, something.
“It’s an emotional game, obviously, so we weren’t surprised, but we’re just not going to take it. So we’re going to hit them right back.”
