{"id":3392,"date":"2017-01-07T16:28:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T21:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=3392"},"modified":"2017-01-07T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T21:28:43","slug":"carmelo-anthony-shoulder-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2017\/01\/07\/carmelo-anthony-shoulder-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmelo Anthony Reveals He&#8217;s Been Playing With A Shoulder Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, the <strong>New York Knicks<\/strong>\u00a0played\u00a0the <strong>Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong> for the second night\u00a0of a home and home affair.\u00a0On Wednesday night (the first of the two games), the Bucks stole a victory thanks to<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/antetgi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s game winning jumper at the buzzer. However, the Knicks responded in Milwaukee last night. After trailing by 18 points, the Knicks mounted a comeback to win 116-111. That was thanks to the fourth quarter efforts of rookie <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bakerro01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ron Baker<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/porzikr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kristaps Porzingis<\/a><\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/anthoca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carmelo Anthony<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>win snapped a six-game losing streak for the Knicks. However, according to <strong>Stefan Bondy<\/strong> of the <strong>New York Daily News<\/strong>, Carmelo Anthony revealed after the game that he&#8217;s been playing with a shoulder injury:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Carmelo Anthony reveals to the News that he&#39;s been dealing with &quot;bad&quot; shoulder pain that needs constant attention <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TnF9IMVrJA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/TnF9IMVrJA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stefan Bondy (@SbondyNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SbondyNBA\/status\/817757137434722305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Carmelo Anthony Reveals He&#8217;s Been Playing With A Shoulder Injury<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Anthony said that his shoulder feels bad a good chunk of the time, and that it can get aggravated easily. However, you wouldn&#8217;t think he&#8217;d be dealing with an injury if you look at his season numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/stats\/_\/id\/1975\/carmelo-anthony\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony is averaging just over 22 points per game, as well as just over 6 rebounds per\u00a0game<\/a>; he&#8217;s looked like himself this year, so him saying he&#8217;s been playing through injury is a bit of a surprise. The question now becomes\u00a0whether he should undergo surgery\u00a0now, or should the Knicks just let it be?<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, the Knicks can rest Anthony once in a while to let his shoulder heal. But on the other hand, taking\u00a0Anthony off the court could hurt the Knicks&#8217; chances at making a run for a playoff spot. Although it&#8217;s highly unlikely, the Knicks and Anthony could ultimately decide to have him undergo surgery to repair the damage in his shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony&#8217;s shoulder\u00a0woes come as a bit of a surprise, given that he&#8217;s been playing like his normal self. He even hit a crucial three-pointer in the waning moments of last night&#8217;s game, just a few minutes before he revealed his injury to the media.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/535248282\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/535248282?et=3ResPt14RDZ3akXBId5v0w&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=VFxIw252H1VpLH2JocpGRbZTJrm86PPveo8ezluI6AM=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After coming back from down 18 to beat the Milwaukee Bucks, New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony admitted he&#8217;s been playing through a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":3407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[12,62,3],"tags":[65,67,138,219,96,202,58,435],"class_list":["post-3392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knicks","category-nba","category-news","tag-basketball","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-kristaps-porzingis","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-nba","tag-nba-news","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-ron-baker"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392","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\/1631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}