Knicks offer no update on possible OG Anunoby injury

NEW YORK — Knicks forward OG Anunoby appeared to suffer a right leg injury late in the fourth quarter of the team’s 108-102 Game 2 win over the Philadelphia 76ers.

Anunoby appeared to pull up and reach for the back of his right leg as he cut to the basket with just over three minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Right after the cut, Anunoby received a pass from Josh Hart and elevated for a two-handed dunk, only to be blocked at the rim by Paul George:

After Mikal Bridges bailed out the possession with a midrange jumper to give the Knicks a 105-99 lead, Anunoby was clearly hobbling as he headed back down the court on defense and appeared to be calling to the Knicks bench to check out of the game. After Tyrese Maxey committed his sixth turnover of the game, losing the ball on a Josh Hart steal, Knicks head coach Mike Brown called timeout and sent Miles “Deuce” McBride in for Anunoby.

McBride would play the final two minutes and 31 seconds of the contest. Anunoby would head back to the New York locker room and would not return.

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Brown told reporters he did not have an update on Anunoby’s status immediately after the game.

“You know, I haven’t talked to anybody,” Brown said. “They didn’t say anything. He looked like he was hopping.”

Brown looked off the podium, where a Knicks public-relations official informed him there was no update.

“I have not talked to medical yet,” Brown said.

Later, Brown fielded a follow-up question as to what transpired on the bench after Anunoby asked out — what, if anything, the training staff told him about the availability of a player that you’d presume the head coach would want on the floor down the stretch of a two-possession playoff game.

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“Yeah, I haven’t — like I said, they haven’t told me,” Brown said. “I just know that he left the game, so I was like, ‘Deuce!’ And I turned and looked, and [Anunoby] wasn’t back. Nobody said he was back. So I have not talked to anybody yet, but he wasn’t — did he even come back on the bench? No.”

Asked if he knew if Anunoby would be undergoing any sort of testing, Brown replied,…

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Author : Dan Devine

Publish date : 2026-05-07 02:50:00

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