{"id":328123,"date":"2025-12-06T00:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/328123\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:44:08","slug":"knicks-og-anunoby-expected-back-after-nine-game-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/328123\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks&#8217; OG Anunoby expected back after nine-game absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"61719eb2-11c3-4e3d-90c3-0a1319fd850b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ny\/new-york-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a> forward <a data-player-guid=\"31ec117d-6e14-d4f0-9414-9d2467197179\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3934719\/og-anunoby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OG Anunoby<\/a> is expected to return Friday against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"77cea2fb-1388-b7c8-d171-2e72b3aecbfb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/utah\/utah-jazz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a> after missing nine games with a strained left hamstring.<\/p>\n<p>Anunoby suffered the injury Nov. 14 against the Miami Heat after playing just five minutes. The Knicks went 6-3 in his absence.<\/p>\n<p>Anunoby was upgraded to questionable early Friday, and Knicks coach Mike Brown said he would go through warmups before a final decision was made. He is expected to be under a minute restriction.<\/p>\n<p>Anunoby is shooting 39 percent from 3-point range and is averaging 15.8 points and 5.6 rebounds in 31 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In his absence, <a data-player-guid=\"4384c489-e5e6-695a-1c5f-b3e66edcb897\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3062679\/josh-hart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Hart<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"cf5535b1-df4a-5cd6-22af-fa93553061a2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4431823\/miles-mcbride\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miles McBride<\/a> have shined with the increased minutes. Hart, who began the season as a reserve, is averaging 17 points. 10.3 rebounds and 6.7 assists since starting the past five games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks forward OG Anunoby is expected to return Friday against the Utah Jazz after missing nine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-328123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}