I was just extremely excited and happy – Kristaps Porzingis after trade to Boston Celtics

Kristaps Porzingis is delighted after his trade to Boston Celtics was finalized in the wee hours of Thursday morning. Porzingis admitted it was a crazy night for him as he was waiting for the confirmation of his trade and was extremely happy and excited when he got the news in the morning.

Porzingis has signed a three-year deal with Boston Celtics and he will be looking to take the team to new heights and deliver his best on the court.

“It was a crazy day for me,” Porzingis said in a news conference on Thursday afternoon. “I was about to go to sleep, and then I heard the news that the trade didn’t go through, so that kept me up for a little bit longer.

“But then by like 4 a.m. back home, I was like, ‘OK, I’ll go to sleep and see what happens.'”

The 27-year-old Latvian earlier played for Washington Wizards and it will be a new chapter in his career with Boston Celtics.

“[When I woke] up in the morning, I saw that it happened, the trade happened,” Porzingis said, “and I was just extremely excited and extremely happy.”

In fact, Kristaps Porzingis didn’t get a lot of opportunities with the Washington Wizards to play the big playoff matches. However, Boston Celtics are always a contender for the NBA Championship and Porzingis will look to deliver in the big games.

“[It was] an opportunity to play for a really good team already and be able to add to that,” Porzingis said, when asked what went into his decision to pick up his $36 million player option to facilitate the trade happening. “And hopefully to help these guys, make their life easier, and being on a high-level organization like Boston, historic franchise, iconic franchise, it made it extremely easy for me to make that decision.”

Porzingis averaged a career-best 23.2 points per game to go with 8.4 rebounds and 1.5 blocks in the 65 games of the previous season for the Washington Wizards and he will look to replicate the same kind of performance for the Boston Celtics.