{"id":521692,"date":"2026-03-08T02:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T02:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521692\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T02:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T02:54:21","slug":"warriors-kristaps-porzingis-returns-to-lineup-vs-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521692\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors&#8217; Kristaps Porzingis returns to lineup vs. Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big man returned to the lineup on Saturday against the Oklahoma City Thunder. He entered off the bench in the first quarter. <\/p>\n<p>This was Porzingis&#8217; second appearance with the Warriors since being acquired on Feb. 5 from the Atlanta Hawks. He had been sidelined for the previous six games, battling a mystery illness, an ongoing issue for Porzingis over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Porzingis has appeared in just 18 games overall this season, averaging 16.8 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.6 assists.<\/p>\n<p>In his first game with the Warriors, he posted 12 points and a rebound in 17 minutes of action.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Payton II also returned for Golden State after missing two games with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The big man returned to the lineup on Saturday against the Oklahoma City Thunder. He entered off the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-521692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}