The Golden State Warriors have been struggling with injuries in the past few weeks. Starting with Jimmy Butler's torn ACL in January and Steph Curry's knee issue that's been flaring up for the past few weeks, the Warriors haven't had a fully healthy team in a while now.

At the trade deadline, they acquired Kristaps Porzingis from the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for Jonathan Kuminga and Buddy Hield. It seemed like a solid trade for availability purposes at the time, despite Porzingis' history of injury and illness, since Kuminga was still hurt, and reports said that the Warriors had a good grasp of his medical situations.

Things looked good in Porzingis' debut out of the All-Star break, but it's been disappointing ever since, as he's now set to miss his sixth-straight game with an unknown illness.

On Monday, Steve Kerr talked about Porzingis' illness and laid out his thoughts on the situation.

"It's a little mysterious. Obviously, we're working with him, and hoping that he can get some clarity and he can break through and get to a point where he's consistently healthy. But that's something that the medical staff is working hard on with him. I'm not going to posit any medical theories."

It's troubling to know that what seems to be just an illness is appearing to be so unknown to the Warriors' medical staff. Reports came out last year that Porzingis had been diagnosed with POTS, a nervous system disorder, but it's also unknown if those reports were fully true, let alone if it has anything to do with this illness.

Right now, all the Warriors can do is hope Porzingis can get back healthy sooner rather than later, because they need him badly.

Trading Kuminga and Hield didn't necessarily hurt the Warriors' rotation all too much — with the team fully healthy, neither were getting big minutes. However, with all the injuries the Warriors have suffered right now, Porzingis would ideally have been the anchor to hold it down and help the Warriors stay afloat until Curry can return.

When they traded for Porzingis, he was meant to be the new second star to replace Butler — someone who can work very well alongside Curry, but also lead the team when Curry is on the bench or injured. His unique blend of height, offensive ability, and defensive presence makes him a very valuable player when he's on the court, but the biggest knock against his career — his availability, or lack thereof — is currently showing at perhaps the time the Warriors need him the most.

If Porzingis can return at least by the time Curry comes back next week, then the Warriors will have about 17 games with them together to make a push heading into the playoffs. With some of them naturally needed for knocking off the rust and developing chemistry, it's starting to get into the possible territory of being a bit too late.