3:32pm: The Knicks have confirmed (via Twitter) that Bogdanovic will undergo left foot surgery, announcing that he’ll be reevaluated in three months.
The team’s announcement didn’t mention anything about a procedure on his wrist, though it sounds based on reports as if that will happen as well.
2:52pm: Knicks forward Bojan Bogdanovic has played his last game of the 2024 postseason, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic, who reports (via Twitter) that the veteran will undergo surgeries to address two separate injuries affecting his wrist and foot.
A weekend report indicated that Bogdanovic’s left wrist surgery would likely require offseason surgery, but that he was attempting to play through that injury until the Knicks’ season ended. However, he hurt his left foot during Sunday’s Game 4 win and had already been ruled out for Tuesday’s Game 5 as a result of that new ailment.
Bogdanovic’s foot issue had been described as a contusion, though the fact that it will apparently require surgical treatment suggests there’s more to the diagnosis than that. He reportedly has ligament damage in his wrist.
One of the most notable players on the move at the trade deadline, Bogdanovic headed from Detroit to New York along with Alec Burks in exchange for a package headlined by young wing Quentin Grimes. The hope was that the two veterans would provide scoring and shooting off the Knicks’ bench, but their production dipped following the trade.
Bogdanovic’s 43.0% field goal percentage in 29 regular season games as a Knick would have been a career low, and his 37.0% rate on three-pointers was also well below his career average. He made just 7-of-24 shots (29.2%) in a limited role during the first four games of the series vs. Philadelphia.
While Bogdanovic had only been averaging about 13 minutes per contest in the postseason, his injury further diminishes an already thin Knicks frontcourt. Julius Randle is also out for the season, while Mitchell Robinson is considered day-to-day due to an ankle injury.
Bogdanovic and Robinson are two of only nine players that Tom Thibodeau has used so far in the first round, so if they’re both unavailable, the club will need to either identify a new eighth man or try to close out Philadelphia in Game 5 using a seven-man rotation.
Bogdanovic is under contract for next season, but only $2MM of his $19MM salary is guaranteed.
Time to use Sims and his 6 fouls and try to slow down Embiid…I don’t think the Knicks will have a problem closing out the Sixers tonight but the lack of frontcourt depth going forward is worrisome especially since it looks like Siakam Turner and the Pacers are up next.
Unreal ………
Shaq saying we only down six …. Knick hater. He had Sixers this series Biiig. Shows you what he knows. Knicks play and win as a team. That’s how they go big. They just keep coming form all players .Depth. Shaq don’t know team ball.
Actually not sure why I are saying Shaq is wrong. He is actually right. The series should be 3-2 Philly but the refs gifted game 2(which the nba league office said was wrong and Maxey was fouled twice). Also sixers have a 1-legged Embiid and Maxey and have had a 10+ pt lead in every game. The only reason the sixers didn’t win is 5 is Embiid injury and Morey incompetence at the trade deadline
While you’re at it, the Knicks are down their leading scorer (until he was injured) and should’ve won game three due to the terribly officiated game. Embiid should’ve had a couple of flagrant twos as well. If Oakley was on the court, Embiid would’ve had one eye open and one eye shut.
lol after the hawks series Knicks fans wanted Randle gone. Now all of a sudden u miss him. S T O P if Embiid was healthy it’s sixers in 5. U we’re gifted game 2 and everyone admitted it
No way you think Julius Randle is their best player, if anything this team is probably better without him
Brunson is 100000x better and if Randle doesnt allow him to be the leading scorer, then ship him out asap
Reading is fundamental. Never said he was their best player. I said he was their leading scorer and compliments Brunson like Maxey does Embiid. No scoring loss to Brunson, but certainly takes some of the focus off of him, especially a big who has some paint presence and can spread the defense.
Well, looks like the Knicks/Pistons trade turned out to be useless for for both teams.
Grimes played six games for the Pistons before being shut down for the year. He shot 21% from the field in those games.
Burks never really made it into the Knicks rotation, and between injury and ineffectiveness, Bogey was a disappointment. Hopefully they can use his partially guaranteed expiring deal in a trade this offseason.
Burkes has a shot now. We will miss Bogdanovic
Pretty sure Bogey is Bogdan Bogdanovic, not Bojan
Tyrese is a baaad man. Sixers need a killer shooter. Make life easier for Embiid and Maxey.
They had Harden. Didn’t work out. Tobias can shoot, but he needs the ball passed to him.
Really !!!!!!!!!
Gotta give it to Philly. They earned this one.
Wow talk about my emotions I went from elation to depression in 5 seconds…I guess we win it on their court now
Thibs gotta throw at least Sims and Precious into the rotation next game.
I’d like to see Burks and Milton, specially the latter. He can get in a zone, and Is a former Sixer.