Celtics’ Kristaps Porziņģis making progress from calf strain, no timetable for return

BOSTON — said Saturday he is slowly making progress from his right soleus strain suffered in Game 4 of the first-round series against the but does not have a timetable for return yet. “There’s no specific date obviously. It’s still pretty early,” Porziņģis said. “I think it will be clear once I start doing more stuff. … Not super close yet. But expecting to recover at a historic rate.” Advertisement Porziņģis said he hopes to return as soon as he feels better, but that may be a while.

But at least it’s like not as bad as it could’ve been.” According to Kharrazi, an injury to the soleus may seem alarming at first but typically has a straightforward rehab process. “Calf strains are typically gastroc strains, which is on the outside portion of the leg. Ninety percent of the time when the leg is injured with a calf strain, it’s a gastroc medial head injury,” Kharrazi said. “The soleus muscle is much deeper than the gastroc.

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