OG Anunoby out at least three weeks after undergoing elbow surgery in major Knicks blow
NY Post
Oh, gee, the banged-up Knicks are going to be without one of their most important in-season acquisitions for at least the next several weeks.
A few hours after fortifying their roster with the trade for Bojan Bogdanovic and Alec Burks before Thursday’s deadline, the Knicks announced that late-December pickup OG Anunoby underwent surgery to remove a bone fragment in his right elbow and he will miss a minimum of three weeks.
The two-way wing will be sidelined at least through the All-Star break after the Knicks officially had switched the injury report listing for Anunoby on Wednesday to bone spur irritation.
“We tried to approach it with rest first, and then you trust the medical [staff], you trust him, and this was the best course of action,” Tom Thibodeau said before Thursday’s game against the Mavericks. “So we’re optimistic that it rolls into the All-Star break [with no games from Feb. 15-21], so it seemed to make the most sense to all of us. So that’s part of it.
“You deal with it, and next guy get in there, get the job done.”
Julius Randle (dislocated shoulder) and now-traded Quentin Grimes (knee) also have been sidelined in recent games for the Knicks, and Jalen Brunson sat out Thursday’s game with an ankle issue suffered in Tuesday’s win over the Grizzlies.