The Washington Wizards shook things up at the NBA trade deadline with a big move for Kristaps Porzingis. But their prized acquisition has yet to take the court due to injury.

Porzingis had been dealing with a bone bruise that forced him to miss his last six games as a member of the Dallas Mavericks. He's now missed his first seven after joining the Wizards, which includes a lengthy hiatus during the NBA All-Star break.

With the Wizards on the outside looking in when it comes to the play-in tournament and Bradley Beal on the shelf for the rest of the season, signs pointed to a potential shut down for Kristaps Porzingis. While Wes Unseld Jr. has been vocal against that idea, the latest report from NBC Sports Washington's Chris Miller certainly does little to quell fears of KP sitting out the rest of the way.

Via NBC Sports:

“Yesterday I flat out just asked Wes Unseld is there a date on the calendar where the Wizards training staff will tell him or the front office will say maybe we shut this guy down for the rest of the year and we'll see you next season. And he said that's not the case, that again he's day by day.”

While day-to-day continues to be the diagnosis, it's been already been weeks and still no sighting of the original unicorn in Wizards clothing. From KP proclaiming that he was missing just one game, to suddenly missing a handful more is an ominous sign for what's to come.

He's now reportedly doing 1-on-1 training, with the roadmap to him playing being to progress to 3-on-3 action then fullcourt 5-on-5 with the rest of the team. Miller asserts that while taking it slow on a delicate injury such as a bone bruise is nothing strange, the fact that the “messaging” has taken a different tone certainly has elicited whispers of maybe delaying his Wizards debut to next season.

“But I just go back to when he just got here. The messaging was different then than what it is now. The messaging then was he wasn't going to play that first game but Porzingis told me in an interview that I'm going to play in the second game. He didn't play in that second game and he didn't play that next week. … I'm just worried about the messaging. The messaging was just different from when he got here to where he is now.”

Washington currently sits just one game back for 10th place and have one of the easiest remaining schedules over their final 21 games. A win in their next contest against the Atlanta Hawks would put them in a deadlock for the final play-in slot.

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The next handful of games could very well determine how eager the Wizards will be to get Kristaps Porzingis back on the court. Should Kyle Kuzma, Rui Hachimura and the rest of the supporting case flex their collective muscles, maybe KP gets a little extra juice to take the floor.