{"id":703250,"date":"2026-05-30T00:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/703250\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T00:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:23:13","slug":"knicks-mitchell-robinsons-broken-finger-happened-off-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/703250\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks&#8217; Mitchell Robinson&#8217;s broken finger happened off the court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is plenty of mystery regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/28\/sports\/mitchell-robinson-suffers-broken-pinky-in-big-knicks-nba-finals-worry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell Robinson\u2019s broken right pinky<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coach Mike Brown said Friday that Robinson did not suffer the injury in a game or in Thursday\u2019s practice. <\/p>\n<p>Thursday was the Knicks\u2019 first practice since Game 4 of the conference finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked when or how it happened, the Knicks said they were not getting into specifics. They also did not say when Robinson had surgery on the pinky. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39526147\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/new-york-knicks-center-mitchell-128259155.jpg\" alt=\"Mitchell Robinson hopes to be ready for Game 1.\" class=\"wp-image-39526147\"  \/>Mitchell Robinson hopes to be ready for Game 1. Brad Penner-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Brown was noncommittal about Robinson\u2019s availability for Game 1 of the Finals on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, I\u2019m always going with whoever is available today,\u201d Brown said Friday. \u201cAnd he didn\u2019t practice today. So we\u2019re getting whoever we need ready to go. \u2026 I don\u2019t want to know, just let me know if he can play and when he can play. Just like we normally would, we\u2019re getting everyone else ready to go.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, the hope is that Robinson, after a \u201cminor procedure,\u201d will be able to play, according to league sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMitch is very important to us,\u201d OG Anunoby said Friday. \u201cAmazing player. It\u2019s unfortunate what happened, but I\u2019m sure \u2014 just take it day by day now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a roller-coaster postseason for Robinson. His brutal free-throw shooting \u2014 he is 13-for-43 (30.2 percent) from the line in the playoffs \u2014 has allowed opponents to utilize Hack-a-Mitch and force the Knicks to take him off the court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.79980469;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39526764\" width=\"472\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/user-expressly-acknowledges-agrees-downloading-128884210.jpg\" alt=\"Mitchell Robinson of the New York Knicks smiling after a win against the Cleveland Cavaliers.\" class=\"wp-image-39526764\"  \/>Mitchell Robinson after Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>He is only averaging 14.2 minutes per game in the postseason, down from 19.6 minutes per game in the regular season. He had not made as big an impact this as most expected entering the playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before Game 3 of the conference finals against the Cavaliers, Robinson posted on Snapchat that his \u201cmental health is not the best right now\u201d and that he had a \u201cvery upsetting experience,\u201d though he did not detail what happened. That post came a few days after Robinson said he had changed his phone number and planned to delete all of his social media accounts ahead of a \u201cnew chapter in my life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m deleting all apps for a little while,\u201d Robinson wrote, \u201cuntil I can get back to myself.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Robinson missed Game 2 of the second round against the 76ers for what was listed on the injury report as an illness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is set to be an unrestricted free agent this offseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is plenty of mystery regarding Mitchell Robinson\u2019s broken right pinky.\u00a0 Coach Mike Brown said Friday that Robinson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,16104,590,13799,288644,1666,85],"class_list":["post-703250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mitchell-robinson","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703250","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=703250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}