{"id":63519,"date":"2025-12-07T19:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63519\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:53:15","slug":"karl-anthony-towns-out-for-knicks-game-vs-magic-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63519\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl-Anthony Towns out for Knicks&#8217; game vs. Magic with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One player in, one player out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just as the Knicks got all their starters back, they were again shorthanded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Karl-Anthony Towns is out for the Knicks\u2019 game against the Magic Sunday afternoon at Madison Square Garden with left calf tightness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37865686\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/user-expressly-acknowledges-agrees-downloading-116826973.jpg\" alt=\"Karl-Anthony Towns\" class=\"wp-image-37865686\"  \/>Karl-Anthony Towns Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>It cropped up during the Knicks\u2019 rout of the Jazz on Friday. He was seen wincing while receiving treatment from trainers on the bench during the third quarter of that game. <\/p>\n<p>Given that and the lopsided nature of the scoreline, he did not return to the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OG Anunoby, after missing nine games with a left hamstring strain, returned for Friday\u2019s win. It meant coach Mike Brown was able to trot out Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges, Anunoby, Josh Hart and Towns as his starting lineup \u2013 the same starting unit Tom Thibodeau used last year and the one Brown intends to use going forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But one game later, Brown had to again adjust his starting lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One player in, one player out.\u00a0 Just as the Knicks got all their starters back, they were again&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1555,21,9,11,1104,10,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-63519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63519","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=63519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}