{"id":414139,"date":"2026-01-15T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414139\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:35:08","slug":"knicks-brunson-sprains-right-ankle-plays-5-minutes-in-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414139\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks’ Brunson sprains right ankle, plays 5 minutes in loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks<\/a> guard Jalen Brunson<\/a> suffered a sprained right ankle in the first quarter and did not return Wednesday night in a 112-101 loss at Sacramento<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brunson limped off the court at the 7:01 mark of the first quarter after an awkward step on a pass a minute earlier. He was initially deemed questionable to return but was ruled out at halftime.<\/p>\n

The Knicks did not have an update on Brunson’s injury after the loss.<\/p>\n

Brunson, who finished with four points in five minutes, left without speaking to reporters, but he did not have a noticeable limp and was not wearing a walking boot as he exited the tunnel to the parking garage.<\/p>\n

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Knicks coach Mike Brown called Wednesday’s loss “one of the worst, if not the worst, games we’ve played the entire year.”<\/p>\n

“We didn’t respond. We didn’t respond at all,” he said of the Knicks after Brunson left the game.<\/p>\n

Brunson sat out two games in mid-November because of a right ankle sprain against the Orlando Magic<\/a>. Last season, he sat out nearly a full month after spraining his right ankle against the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> in March. Brunson also tweaked his foot multiple times during last season’s playoff run to the Eastern Conference finals.<\/p>\n

The Knicks were just beginning to get healthier in the middle of a grueling stretch in which they have played five of their past six games on the road. Josh Hart<\/a> returned Wednesday after sitting out eight games because of an ankle sprain he suffered on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

The Knicks went 3-5 during Hart’s absence but remain in second place in the Eastern Conference at 25-15. They will travel to San Francisco for a matchup with the Golden State Warriors<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Anthony Slater contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson suffered a sprained right ankle in the first quarter and did not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-414139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}