The Knicks will take a conservative approach regarding OG Anunoby’s sore elbow, but the irritation has shown improvement since Monday, SNY TV’s Ian Begley reports.
Anunoby underwent an MRI on his surgically repaired right elbow and the results showed no additional damage. It’s uncertain when he’ll return to action.
As for Julius Randle, Begley says there’s still an expectation that he’ll be back in action at some point this season, though he has yet to be cleared for contact. Randle, who suffered a dislocated shoulder in late January, has been participating in other on-court activities.
We have more on the New York teams:
- Josh Hart played all 48 minutes and recorded a triple-double in Monday’s win over the Warriors, joining Hall of Famers Clyde Frazier and Jerry Lucas as the only players in franchise history to accomplish that feat, Joseph Staszewski of the New York Post notes. Hart also became the first Knicks performer to play a full game since Jared Jeffries in 2010. “I ain’t making any shots, so I’ve got to do something else,” said Hart, who had his third triple-double of the month.
- Considering all the major injury issues he’s had to deal with this season, this might be the Knicks’ Tom Thibodeau’s best coaching job of his career, Mike Vaccaro of the New York Post opines.
- Nets forward Mikal Bridges played his 500th consecutive game in the team’s 104-91 loss to the Pelicans on Tuesday. He hasn’t missed a game during his pro career. However, his production has declined lately, including a 15-point outing against New Orleans. Asked if Bridges’ minutes should be reduced, interim coach Kevin Ollie told The New York Post’s Jared Schwartz, “We always sit down with our medical team. We think about what’s best for the organization, what’s best for the players. … We’re all talking about that. We’re gonna make the best decision for Mikal, and the best decision for our organization, if something ever arises like that.”
Thibs literally took a team missing Derrick Rose (starting NATE ROBINSON) to the second round. Way to be a prisoner of the moment, Mike.
Deng and Boozer were fully healthy, Noah was mostly healthy (66 games) and was there for the entire playoffs, and Kirk Heinrich got them through most of the regular season (60 games) and their first three wins in round 1. It’s not like Robinson or a young Jimmy Butler were downgrades for the squad either, both played quite well.
Also, that first round win was nearly as much about the Joe Johnson-Gerald Wallace Nets being dysfunctional as the Bulls being good.
This year all of the Knicks best players (except maybe Brunson) have missed large stretches. Annunoby has played 17 games for the Knicks, Robinson 21, and Randle 46. Donte DiVincenzo has been their #2 option on offense for almost half the year. Maybe if they lose in the first round you could argue the 2013 Bulls were better, but at the moment, the 2024 Knicks have had a harder path.
@Real 2k is speaking absolute facts!! What a silly thing to say by the writer. Those Thibs teams with the injuries were fun. Thibs standard response to reporters asking how they were gonna get by with all the injuries …. “We got enough”
Thibs and Knicks management work together. He had the opposite in Chicago, and used it to his advantage. The mentality of the entire team was its Us (team) vs. Them (management).
Thibs has been wrongly criticized for his style. However, players love Thibs. He plays HIS guys …. Somebody gets hurt …. Next man up ….
If the game, and talent level was where it was in 2013 …. Donte DiVincenzo would be playing where he always thought he was gonna be anyway, and that is playing in Italy and not the NBA. We have digressed that far. Is Donte Knicks #2 offensive guy right now. Yes. Is he good at it … Hell No. Not what he does. Completely outside of what his game is. He is just jacking up three’s. He takes more than 10 per night, and many of those nights maybe hits 2 or 3 of them.
The Knicks are winning because this is what Thibs likes. He loves being in a position to completely “dirty up” games. Did it with the Bulls. Dig in defensively and fight for 48 minutes. If you gotta play all 48 …. Then so be it.
DDV is shooting 40% on 8 threes a game, so I don’t know what you think you’re talking about. Him taking 10+ threes and hitting 3 or less has happened a grand total of four times this year. Him taking 10+ and hitting 5 or more has happened fourteen times.
Also, the point was he was thrust into the situation of being the #2 due to a lack of other options, which somehow flew over your head.
More old man yelling at clouds…
Did you read the part where I said just jacking up three’s which is NOT his game …. You spend more time trying to prove anything I say wrong. Bro …. I am NOT interested in living in your head rent free.
Did you read the part where what you said was factually incorrect? You suggested that he is shooting 20-30% on 10+ threes per game when its 3.2 made on 8.1 attempted for 39.7%.
Your argument holds less meaning if you spit out random incorrect stats.
Thibs is the same coach every year. The impact varies mostly based on other factors, starting with talent, chemistry and team culture. If Vaccaro is talking about single season impact, then it was the greatest his first seasons in 2011 (21 game jump in wins adding only Boozer, who was individually considered a disappointment) and 2021 (20 game jump in wins adding basically nobody). There are only a dozen or so seasons like that (with a U-turn record-wise) in NBA history, and most of the others that I can recall involved a sea change in the level of personnel. Like the arrivals of Alcindor, Bird, Duncan (w/Robinson returning too), LeBron, BOS big 3, MIA big 3. In his first seasons, there was no team culture in effect, at least not any winning team culture.
The injuries this year present a challenge, for sure, so does bringing in new guys mid-year. But he’s facilitated a great team culture here over the 3 years coming into this one, and, after a few fits and stops, the FO has gotten him players that fit it. Now, he can reap the benefits of it. Culture facilitates overachievement, at least in temporary doses. So does great coaching across the A’s. Unfortunately, in the end, it’s still a talent centric league, with fairly rigid parameters designed to put its highly marketed superstars in the winners circle.
In Thibs we Trust ………
Bridges needs a real PG. Nets need a real PG. I was them I’d try and sign Jrue next yr.