{"id":222682,"date":"2026-05-07T00:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222682\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T00:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:18:12","slug":"knicks-mitchell-robinson-misses-game-2-with-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222682\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks&#8217; Mitchell Robinson misses Game 2 with illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Make that two key centers that didn\u2019t play in Game 2 of the Knicks-Sixers second-round series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/05\/06\/76ers-joel-embiid-ruled-out-game-2-knicks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hours after 76ers star Joel Embiid (ankle) was ruled out<\/a> of Wednesday\u2019s Game 2, the Knicks listed Mitchell Robinson as out due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks entered Wednesday with a clean injury report, but the big got downgraded to questionable less than two hours before tip-off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know. I know he\u2019s sick and that will be up to our performance group, the doctors and then him at the end of the day,\u201d Knicks head coach Mike Brown said pregame before the team ruled Robinson out. \u201cBut I know just as much as you do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robinson\u2019s absence left the Knicks without his rebounding dominance and rim protection off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s DNP is his first missed game of the 2026 postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson logged two points, four rebounds and one assist in 12 minutes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/05\/04\/knicks-76ers-game-1-jalen-brunson-joel-embiid-playoffs-second-round\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Monday\u2019s Game 1.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s averaging 6.2 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.0 block in the 2026 postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for the Knicks, Embiid\u2019s absence coincided with Robinson\u2019s DNP.<\/p>\n<p>Sixers head coach Nick Nurse said his MVP big man woke up with \u201ca bunch of soreness\u201d before being ruled out during shootaround.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Drummond started in place of Embiid in Game 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Make that two key centers that didn\u2019t play in Game 2 of the Knicks-Sixers second-round series. Hours after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23082,16217,10663,1557,21,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-222682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-76ers","tag-joel-embiid","tag-knicks","tag-mitchell-robinson","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}