The Timberwolves are optimistic that star center Karl-Anthony Towns avoided a serious knee injury in the team’s game against Washington on Saturday, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski (Twitter link).
Towns underwent additional testing that included an MRI on Sunday, with all indications pointing toward him escaping significant injury, Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic adds.
Towns exited Saturday’s game early with clear pain in his right knee, limping to the locker room and missing the overtime period. Wolves coach Ryan Saunders said the big man was able to walk around after the game after undergoing initial evaluations.
“He’s just had initial evaluations, but he was walking around so there’s really no info at the moment,” Saunders said postgame, according to NBA.com.
While the MRI results have yet to be released, Minnesota is listing Towns as questionable to play on Sunday against the Knicks — a sigh of relief for Timberwolves fans and the entire organization.
Towns has averaged 24.5 points, 12.3 rebounds and 1.7 blocks on 52 percent shooting with Minnesota in his fourth NBA season.
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Waiting for the “shut him down” post
Why not sit him? They know what they have in him. Get Diop and Jones and Okogie more minutes and see what they have to offer.
Hopefully he will be back real soon, as he is one of the reasons fans watch the NBA. I cannot understand why some fans seem to want players shut down as soon as his teams are out of contention… I mean players wanna play, fans wanna watch them play, is of no consequence if their teams are contending or not. KAT as always is ripping it & a top 5 player in the league, sooo much fun to watch, just can’t wait for him to be back ASAP!
I believe thibs has already detonated his time-delay injury bug thanks to the minutes load he put on those guys for NO REASON.
Acl, meniscus, labrums, oh my!
They’ll all be gone, starting now until they’re gone. (the players that is)