NBA: Mavs Porzingis out for remainder of first round with knee injury

Dallas big man Kristaps Porzingis will miss the rest of the Mavericks’ NBA first-round playoff series against the Los Angeles Clippers with a right knee injury, the team said Friday.

The Mavs said in a statement that Porzingis has been receiving treatment for a torn meniscus in his right knee and that “more treatment options are being explored.”

Porzingis was hurt in the opening game of the series, in which they are trailing 2-3 and Game 6 approaches Sunday in the NBA’s coronavirus quarantine bubble in Orlando, Florida.

Porzingis scored 23 points and had seven rebounds in the Mavericks’ Game 2 victory. But he has missed the last two games.

Lithuania’s Porzingis missed more than a season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in February 2018, in what would be his last game for the New York Knicks.

The Mavericks acquired him in a trade the following year and re-signed him last year to a five-year, $ 158 million deal.