Team: Golden State Warriors · Age: 30 · Position: PF/C · Status: confirmed two-year contract · As of: 2026-07-18
2026-27 median projection
| GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | 3PM | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 25.5 | .452 | .850 | 2.1 | 18.0 | 6.2 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 1.4 |
Correction 2026-07-18: base GP lowered from 54 to 48. Porziņģis was absent from the injury and availability ledger entirely — no priority-board row, no Golden State row, no rest-risk placement — while the uncertainty ledger simultaneously named him in its Curry/Butler/Moody/Porziņģis health-cluster watchlist. Two unresolved conditions belong in the number rather than only in prose: left Achilles tendinitis, which cost him a long January–February stretch in Atlanta, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, the autonomic condition diagnosed in Boston that flared again in 2025-26 and pushed his Warriors debut past his own February 19 target. POTS is the harder of the two to model because it recurs without a discrete injury event. His last three seasons run 65, 57, 32 games — a mean near 51 — and Golden State has stated reason to cap his centre minutes, so 54 sat above the trend rather than below it. Hoops Rumors · Boston.com — Achilles tendinitis
Nine-cat: top-35 to top-70 per game; top-70 to top-110 totals. Points: B+. Dynasty: 6.0/10. Opening-night allocation: 26 minutes.
Role and evidence
Golden State retained Porziņģis on a reported two-year, $40 million deal with a second-year player option. In 15 Warriors games he averaged 16.1 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 1.1 blocks, and 1.5 threes in 23.7 minutes; his full 32-game season line was 16.7/5.2/2.5 with 1.2 blocks (ESPN).
The fit is fantasy-friendly: Curry's gravity generates pick-and-pop threes, Green can find him above the rim, and neither Horford nor Bassey requires post touches. The team also has every reason to cap regular-season center minutes, use Horford on rest nights, and avoid treating Porziņģis as a 70-game workhorse.
Illness caused another multi-game March absence (NBA.com). The two named conditions behind the 32-game season are left Achilles tendinitis and a recurrence of the POTS diagnosis he received in Boston; the projection blends that recent availability with his broader history and does not assert a specific current flare.
SI placed him 44th in a June top 50, close to his per-game ceiling but aggressive for totals.
Range
- Ceiling: 62 games at 28 MPG, 20 points, 2.4 threes, and 1.8 blocks; top-30 per game.
- Median: strong ratios/blocks/threes when active, with planned absences and limited center minutes.
- Floor: fewer than 40 games or another sub-24-minute season; Horford and Bassey become streaming winners.
Career record
Pre-NBA: No college. Latvian, developed at Baloncesto Sevilla in Spain, where he played three seasons in the Liga ACB from 2012-13 through 2014-15. Debut year 2012-13: 7 games, 2.6 points in 14.9 minutes as a 17-year-old. 2013-14: 32 games, 6.7 points, 2.8 rebounds, 0.9 blocks in 14.9 minutes on .476 FG. 2014-15, his draft year: 34 games, 10.7 points, 4.8 rebounds, 1.0 blocks in 21.7 minutes on .471 FG and .774 FT, with Eurocup minutes on top of the league schedule. The ACB is a hard league for a teenager and those are respectable rather than dominant numbers — he was drafted on frame, shooting touch and rim protection rather than production. Draft: 2015, first round, 4th pick, New York Knicks, a selection famously booed at the Barclays Center. He was traded to Dallas in January 2019 while still rehabilitating his ACL, to Washington in February 2022, to Boston in June 2023, to Atlanta in June 2025, and to Golden State on February 5, 2026 for Jonathan Kuminga and Buddy Hield.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | 20 | NYK | 72 | 28.4 | 14.3 | 7.3 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 1.1 | .421 | .838 | 1.7 |
| 2016-17 | 21 | NYK | 66 | 32.8 | 18.1 | 7.2 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 1.7 | .450 | .786 | 1.8 |
| 2017-18 | 22 | NYK | 48 | 32.4 | 22.7 | 6.6 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 1.9 | .439 | .793 | 1.9 |
| 2018-19 | 23 | NYK/DAL | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2019-20 | 24 | DAL | 57 | 31.8 | 20.4 | 9.5 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 2.5 | .427 | .799 | 1.6 |
| 2020-21 | 25 | DAL | 43 | 30.9 | 20.1 | 8.9 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 2.3 | .476 | .855 | 1.2 |
| 2021-22 | 26 | DAL/WAS | 51 | 29.0 | 20.2 | 8.1 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 1.5 | .459 | .867 | 1.6 |
| 2022-23 | 27 | WAS | 65 | 32.6 | 23.2 | 8.4 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 2.1 | .498 | .851 | 2.1 |
| 2023-24 | 28 | BOS | 57 | 29.6 | 20.1 | 7.2 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 1.9 | .516 | .858 | 1.6 |
| 2024-25 | 29 | BOS | 42 | 28.8 | 19.5 | 6.8 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 2.5 | .483 | .809 | 1.3 |
| 2025-26 | 30 | ATL/GSW | 32 | 24.0 | 16.7 | 5.2 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.7 | .446 | .842 | 1.3 |
| Career | 533 | 30.3 | 19.5 | 7.6 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 1.9 | .460 | .830 | 1.6 |
The 2021-22 split: 34 games in Dallas at 19.2/7.7/2.0 on .451 FG, then 17 games in Washington after the February trade at 22.1/8.8/2.9 on .475 FG — more usage and better efficiency in the smaller sample. The 2025-26 split: 17 games in Atlanta at 17.1/5.1/2.7 with 1.3 blocks in 24.3 minutes on .457 FG, then 15 games in Golden State at 16.1/5.3/2.3 with 1.1 blocks in 23.7 minutes on .433 FG and 31.1% from three. He did not play a full month for either team. He won the 2024 championship with Boston.
Fantasy history: season-end 9-category per-game ranks are not published free for these seasons and no specific finish is verified here. What the record supports without inference: in every healthy season from 2016-17 through 2024-25 he produced a per-game category line that combines blocks, threes, a strong free-throw percentage and, since Washington, a field goal percentage above .480 — a genuinely rare four-category center profile, and per-game he has repeatedly been an early-to-middle-round asset. The gap between his per-game value and his totals value is the defining feature of his fantasy career: he has cleared 66 games exactly twice in eleven seasons, so managers drafting him on per-game rank have been systematically overpaying in any format that counts games. His points-league grade is materially worse than his category grade, because blocks and free-throw percentage — the two things that make him scarce in categories — are ordinary in points formats, and his rebounding has declined to 5.2 while his scoring sits under 20.
Durability: 72, 66, 48, 0, 57, 43, 51, 65, 57, 42, 32. The list is the analysis. A torn left ACL on February 6, 2018 ended 2017-18 and cost all of 2018-19. A lateral meniscus tear in the 2020 playoffs led to surgery on October 9, 2020 and the first nine games of 2020-21. The 2023-24 postseason produced a calf strain in Game 4 on April 29, 2024 and then a torn medial retinaculum with dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon in his left leg during the Finals; surgery on June 27, 2024 carried a five-to-six month timeline and he did not return until November 25, 2024. In 2025 he was diagnosed with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, a condition that produced the illness absences that shaped both the 2025 playoffs and 2025-26. In 2025-26 itself he last played for Atlanta on January 7 before the February trade, and missed at least five consecutive games in March with illness after joining Golden State. The 32 games are the fewest of any season he has actually played in.
Trajectory: The skill curve and the availability curve point in opposite directions and have for years. Skill-wise the arc is upward and clean: he arrived at 20 as a 14-point stretch big shooting .421, added volume through 2017-18, added rebounding in Dallas, and then in Washington and Boston solved the efficiency problem that dogged his Knicks years — .498, .516 and .483 from the field across 2022-23 to 2024-25 alongside 1.9 to 2.5 threes and .809 to .858 from the line, which is close to an optimal modern big-man shot diet. Availability moved the other way, and 2025-26 is a different category of problem from the earlier injuries: an ACL and a retinaculum tear are events you rehabilitate from, while POTS is a chronic condition with no clean return date and a direct effect on conditioning and minutes tolerance. That is the honest reading of the 24.0 minutes and the 5.2 rebounds — not aging, but a body that could not sustain load. He turns 31 in August 2026, which is not an age at which the shooting should fall apart, and Golden State's roster is close to ideal for what he does well. But eleven seasons produced 533 games, the last two produced 74 combined, and the per-game profile is only useful to a manager who plans around it rather than one who drafts it at face value.
Career sources: ESPN career stats · Wikipedia — Sevilla, draft, injury history · Warriors trade announcement, Feb 5 2026 · NBA.com on the Kuminga/Hield trade · NBA.com on the March illness absence
Open questions
- Does Porziņģis enter camp without an illness or conditioning limitation?
- Will the Warriors routinely rest him on back-to-backs?
- Can his Warriors three-point rate recover from 31.1% while volume rises?