{"id":580714,"date":"2026-04-04T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/580714\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T01:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:21:09","slug":"towns-held-out-of-knicks-game-against-bulls-because-of-elbow-impingement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/580714\/","title":{"rendered":"Towns held out of Knicks&#8217; game against Bulls because of elbow impingement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 New York center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/karl-anthony-towns\/ab532a66-9314-4d57-ade7-bb54a70c65ad\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"ab532a66-9314-4d57-ade7-bb54a70c65ad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> was held out of the Knicks&#8217; game Friday night against the Chicago Bulls because of a right elbow impingement.<\/p>\n<p>Towns was in a good mood as he participated in pregame warmups and took a couple of shots. However, he stood in front of the visitor\u2019s bench and grabbed his elbow before he walked off the court toward the home locker room.<\/p>\n<p>The All-Star center is averaging 20.1 points and 11.9 rebounds. He was replaced by Mitchell Robinson in the starting lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 New York center Karl-Anthony Towns was held out of the Knicks&#8217; game Friday night against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-580714","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\/580714","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=580714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}