Warriors' Steve Kerr provides update on Kristaps Porzingis illness

Kristaps Porzingis made his Golden State Warriors debut on Thursday, Feb. 19. Unfortunately, he was back on the injury report for the team's game against the Denver Nuggets on Sunday, Feb. 22, and didn't make the trip to New Orleans for Tuesday's loss. Porzingis will also be absent when the Warriors face the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday.

When speaking with the media ahead of Tuesday's loss to the Pelicans, Steve Kerr addressed Porzingis' illness before noting that the veteran big is starting to show signs of improvement.

"He's getting better," Kerr said. "I didn't talk to him today, but our training staff did. He's just been really sick, but making some improvements. So we'll see how he is. It's just an illness. It's not related. It's a bug."

The Warriors knew Porzingis had been dealing with health issues over the past year when they traded for him. Acquiring him was always going to be a dice roll in terms of availability. Nevertheless, when healthy, Porzingis is capable of making a sizeable contribution to the Warriors roster.

Unfortunately for Warriors fans, there's no timeline for when Porzingis will be back on the court. However, when that time does come, the hope will be that he can start stringing a run of games together.

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