Knicks Karl-Anthony Towns questionable vs. Magic after knee injury scare

After limping out of the loss in Chicago, Karl-Anthony Towns was listed by the Knicks as questionable for Monday’s game against the Magic with right knee soreness. Officially, the diagnosis is right knee tendinopathy, also known as jumper’s knee, with pain and inflammation underneath the kneecap.It’s not a serious acute injury but commonly arrives from overuse and Towns, 29, is averaging his most minutes since the 2017-18 season.

He missed a game earlier this season with the same ailment to the same knee. Without Towns for Monday, the Knicks frontcourt would be thin with Precious Achiuwa, Jericho Sims and Ariel Hukporti as the options. Towns had been favoring his knee in the latter part of Saturday’s loss to the Bulls but still dropped 26 of his 44 points in the fourth quarter.He left the game quickly after converting an and-1 with the Knicks trailing by 15 and less than two minutes remaining, colliding with a Bulls defender and falling to the court. Minutes after the final buzzer, Towns felt good enough to work himself into a sweat in the weight room and explained why he kept playing in the fourth quarter. “I ain’t going to quit.

That’s not my M.O.I want to keep going,” Towns said.

“I looked at [the player subbing me out] Jericho [Sims], he pointed at me, I pointed at him, and said, ‘Let’s go.’ I wasn’t going to quit.I don’t care how I feel.

I’m not going to quit on my teammates.” Towns also detailed what happened on his spill to the court. “I got hit.I was going to go for a dunk.

Saw [Chicago’s Coby White] was probably not going to give it me, and then I switched hands, tried to do my best Michael Jordan impression,” Towns said.“It hurt.

Really all I saw was an and-1 that was too late to help us win.Honest to God I didn’t even know I made it.” Towns has missed two games this season. Miles McBride, who has missed three straight games, is again listed as questionable with a hamstring strain.

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