Jalen Brunson’s injury update is good news for Knicks — for now
NY Post
SAN FRANCISCO — Jalen Brunson’s troublesome right ankle cost him a high-profile showdown.
The point guard was ruled out of Thursday night’s game against Stephen Curry and the Warriors with a sprain, which Brunson sustained a day earlier in the first quarter of an embarrassing Knicks defeat at Sacramento.
He was labeled “day to day” by the Knicks, which is a good sign that the injury wasn’t severe.
Still, Brunson had already missed two games this season because of a right ankle sprain — after missing 15 toward the end of last season for the same reason — prompting questions about what the recurrences might mean for his ankle’s long-term stability.
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“The inverse ankle sprains are really common. And, unfortunately, they beget themselves,” Dr. Stephanie Gwin, a non-operative sports medicine physician at Rothman Orthopaedics, told The Post. “The more you sprain, the more unstable it is, the more you keep spraining. So my guess is with this, even if it is a lower-grade sprain, they may err towards giving that a little bit longer so they can have him for the postseason.”
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