{"id":127391,"date":"2025-03-07T10:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=127391"},"modified":"2025-03-07T10:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:11:23","slug":"new-york-knicks-jalen-brunson-promising-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/03\/07\/new-york-knicks-jalen-brunson-promising-injury-update\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Knicks Star Receives Promising Injury Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/03\/06\/lakers-veteran-pj-tucker-championship-push\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> on Thursday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/03\/06\/3-star-trades-knicks-may-consider\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">New York Knicks<\/a> guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/brunsja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-07_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jalen Brunson<\/a> suffered an ankle injury in overtime. Brunson drove to the rim on a fastbreak and fell awkwardly on his ankle. Given that the Knicks, who are on a two-game losing streak, are looking to remain the No. 3 seed in the East, Brunson&#8217;s injury could be a big problem for them. Fortunately, there is some optimism regarding his injury.<\/p>\n<p>According to NBA insider Chris Haynes, there is optimism that Brunson&#8217;s injury is just a sprained ankle. Nothing is official yet, but this is good news for Brunson and the Knicks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There\u2019s optimism New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson only sustained a sprained ankle, sources tell me.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisBHaynes\/status\/1897897769614164005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the loss, Brunson recorded 39 points, four rebounds, and 10 assists in 41 minutes.<\/p>\n<h2>New York Knicks Star Receives Promising Injury Update<\/h2>\n<h3>Jalen Brunson Is Crucial to the Knicks&#8217; Success<\/h3>\n<p>After finishing as the No. 2 seed last year, many had high hopes for the Knicks this season. After acquiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bridgmi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-07_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikal Bridges<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/townska01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-07_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a>, these expectations grew even higher. With just a little over a month remaining in the season, it is fair to say that they have mostly lived up to those expectations. They are 40-22 and are one of the top teams in the Eastern Conference. It is well-known that they have struggled against the top teams in the league this season. However, there is no doubt that the Knicks have a talented roster and could make a deep playoff run. Regardless, it is important that Brunson is available as often as possible for the Knicks to be contenders this season.<\/p>\n<p>Now in his third season in New York, the Villanova alum is averaging 26.3 points, 3 rebounds, 7.4 assists, and 1 steal per game. Furthermore, he is shooting 49% from the field and 38.4% from the three-point line. After finishing fifth in MVP voting last year, Brunson is putting together another solid campaign this year. Additionally, a slightly overlooked aspect of Brunson&#8217;s importance is his availability. The guard has missed just one game this season (a New Year&#8217;s Day battle against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/03\/04\/jazz-jaden-springer-signing-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Utah Jazz<\/a>). This makes him even more important to the Knicks, and it is another reason the team relies on him so heavily.<\/p>\n<h3>The Last Word On Jalen Brunson&#8217;s Injury<\/h3>\n<p>It is too early to know the extent of Brunson&#8217;s injury. However, it sounds like it is a good news, bad news situation. On one hand, it is fair to assume Brunson will miss some time with this injury. With the Knicks&#8217; slight recent skid (and the fact that they are now just 3.5 games ahead of the No. 4 seed <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/03\/06\/bucks-giannis-antetokounmpo-reflects-20k-points-milestone\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> in the standings), this is not a great time for the team to deal with an injury like this. However, on the flip side, it sounds like Brunson&#8217;s injury may not be too serious, and he should return sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson&#8217;s injury status is one to monitor as the Knicks aim to end the season on a high note.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night, New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson suffered an ankle injury in overtime. Brunson drove to the rim on a fastbreak and fell awkwardly on his ankle. Given that the Knicks, who are on a two-game losing streak, are looking to remain the No. 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4631,"featured_media":127392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,2,62,12,3],"tags":[1417,4745],"class_list":["post-127391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-featured","category-nba","category-knicks","category-news","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-nba-injuries"],"modified_by":"Elie Deglaoui","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127397,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127391\/revisions\/127397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}