{"id":678202,"date":"2026-05-18T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678202\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:40:09","slug":"knicks-anunoby-practises-in-full-again-trending-towards-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678202\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks&#8217; Anunoby practises in full again, trending towards return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/og-anunoby\/9474fa0a-70dd-44c4-9751-dac5839ae7f3\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"9474fa0a-70dd-44c4-9751-dac5839ae7f3\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">OG Anunoby<\/a> is trending towards returning for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals. <\/p>\n<p>Brown did not confirm Anunoby&#8217;s status for Game 1.<\/p>\n<p>This comes on the heels of a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2054627018105393424?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">report<\/a> last week from ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania that Anunoby is expected to return for Game 1 of New York&#8217;s series against the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p>Anunoby was hurt late in the\u00a0Knicks&#8217; victory over Philadelphia in Game 2\u00a0of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on May 6 and missed the final two games of that series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt didn\u2019t feel as bad as the past when it happened,\u201d Anunoby said. \u201cSo knowing that, just trying to improve it day by day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anunoby had the maximum amount of time possible to rest, as the\u00a0Knicks swept their series,\u00a0while\u00a0Cleveland eventually eliminated Detroit in seven games on Sunday. So the Eastern Conference Finals, which could have started Sunday, won&#8217;t begin until Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Anunoby is averaging 21.4 points on 61.9 per cent shooting from the field and 53.8 per cent from three, along with 7.5 rebounds and 1.9 steals in the post-season, well above the 16.7 points, 5.2 boards and 1.6 steals he averaged during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the Cavaliers&#8217; lack of strong wing players \u2014 their stars play either in the backcourt or frontcourt \u2014 Anunoby could have a sizeable impact on the upcoming series.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013With files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OG Anunoby is trending towards returning for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Brown did not confirm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-678202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678202","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=678202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}