DALLAS — From the time Kristaps Porzingis suffered a torn left anterior cruciate ligament last season until the time he next plays in an NBA game, approximately 20 months will have passed.
Keeping Porzingis on the sidelines for that amount of time was perhaps the plan when he was a member of the New York Knicks. But it’s definitely the plan now that he’s a member the Dallas Mavericks.
“That was the plan from the beginning and we’re sticking to the plan,” Porzingis said. “Twenty months of not playing, obviously I expect there will be some rust.