The Boston Celtics have ruled Kristaps Porzingis out for Game 3 with his left foot injury.

Porzingis suffered the injury in the second half of the Celtics' Game 2 win over the Dallas Mavericks. Porzingis has a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon.

The injury is not related to his calf injury suffered in the first round of the playoffs. 

Kristaps Porzingis suffered a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon in his left leg at 3:27 of the third quarter of Game 2.

The injury is unrelated to Porzingis’s prior right calf injury, which was suffered in the first round of the playoffs. Porzngis missed five weeks with the injury before returning for Game 1.

After consultation with numerous specialists regarding this injury, his availability for upcoming games will be determined day-to-day.

Luka Doncic received a pain-killing injection before Game 2 to numb the area of his thoracic contusion, sources tell Tim MacMahon and Malika Andrews.

Doncic is expected to receive another injection before Game 3. 

“I feel good," said Doncic on Tuesday. "I don’t want to give any more details, but I feel good.”

The Dallas Mavericks enter Game 3 trailing the Boston Celtics in the 2024 Finals.

Kristaps Porzingis will undergo imaging on his right leg after appearing to tweak it in the Boston Celtics' 105-98 win over the Dallas Mavericks in Game 2.

Porzingis expects to continue to play ahead of Game 3 on Wednesday. 

"Not difficult at all," Porzingis said, when asked if it was tough for him to continue playing. "I'll die out there if we need, so I just kept going.

"But obviously I was a little bit limited, so the smart thing was to get Al [Horford] back in there and close out the game."

The Dallas Mavericks have upgraded Luka Doncic to available for Game 2 of the NBA Finals. Doncic was previously downgraded from probable to questionable earlier in the day on Sunday.

The Mavs star has been dealing with a sprained right knee and left ankle soreness throughout the playoffs. Doncic then picked up a thoracic contusion at some point in Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday.

Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic has been downgraded to questionable for Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Sunday. Doncic was previously listed as probable to play in Game 2.

The Mavs star is dealing with several injuries. He has a thoracic contusion, in addition to a right knee sprain and left ankle soreness. The latter two injuries are ones that Doncic has been dealing with throughout the playoffs.

Phoenix Suns guard Bradley Beal played through a misaligned septum in his nose from late-January onward last season. Beal caught an inadvertent elbow from Myles Turner of the Indiana Pacers on January 26. Beal then played several games with a mask on.

Following the season, Beal had surgery to realign his septum. Prior to the surgery, Beal talked about having problems breathing through the right side of nose.

Nikola Topic, a possible top-10 pick in the 2024 NBA draft, has been diagnosed with a partially torn ACL.

Topic suffered a left knee injury in January shortly after his midseason transfer from Mega MIS to Red Star Belgrade, missing four months of Adriatic League action. When Topic returned in late April, he played in three games before injuring the same knee again.

Topic's agent, Misko Raznatovic, told ESPN he does not expect the injury to have a major impact on his draft position.

Topic averaged 18.6 points and 6.9 assists shooting 65% from 2-point range, 29% for 3 and 85% from the free throw line at Mega MIS.

The Chicago Bulls are confident Lonzo Ball will play next season, but are not sure when that will happen.

Ball last played on Jan. 14, 2022 when he tore his meniscus. Ball has undergone a number of surgeries, culminating in a meniscus transplant. 

"There was no more meniscus left, and bone on bone was rubbing," Ball said. "The cartilage was gone and the bone was messed up, so I had to get a new meniscus from a donor. I had to get a bone allograft, and I had to get some new cartilage put in as well."

Ball first suffered a meniscus tear in 2018.

The Bulls signed Ball to a four-year, $80 million deal in 2021.

Kristaps Porzingis completed multiple scrimmages in recent days and is on track to play in Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday against the Dallas Mavericks.

Porzingis has been out since April 29th with a calf injury.