{"id":713606,"date":"2026-06-04T02:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/713606\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T02:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:48:21","slug":"what-is-a-boxers-fracture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/713606\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a boxer&#8217;s fracture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/new-york\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Knicks;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Knicks&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a> center <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/6047\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mitchell Robinson;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Mitchell Robinson&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell Robinson<\/a> will play in Game 1 of the NBA Finals despite the painful injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-show-transcript\">View more<\/p>\n<p>Video Transcript<\/p>\n<p>What is a boxer&#8217;s fracture?<\/p>\n<p>The broken hand injury that Knicks center Mitchell Robinson suffered last week.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A boxer&#8217;s fracture is a break in your hand&#8217;s fifth metacarpal, which typically occurs when you punch something too hard.<\/p>\n<p>The force of the punch&#8217;s impact on your pinky finger is great enough to cause a break in the head of the metacarpal.<\/p>\n<p>While a boxer&#8217;s fracture doesn&#8217;t always require surgery, Robinson&#8217;s was apparently severe enough that he did undergo surgery for the injury.<\/p>\n<p>The fracture could take six to eight weeks to fully heal, but Robinson is expected to play in the series, and he was at practice on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-hide-transcript\">Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson will play in Game 1 of the NBA Finals despite the painful&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,14724,2901,82],"class_list":["post-713606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mitchell-robinson","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713606","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=713606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}