New York Knicks Center Injures Knee

New York Knicks Center Gets A Knee Injury

According to a report on NBC Sports.com's Pro Basketball Talk, last Wednesday night, New York Knicks center Tyson Chandler left Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island on crutches after suffering an apparent sprained knee.

Chandler's knee will undergo an MRI on Thursday to determine the severity and extent of the injury, as cited from a tweet by the New York Daily News' Frank Isola.

According to reports, early in the game Chandler banged knees with the New Jersey Nets' Gerald Wallace and fell to the court. Chandler was helped to the locker room and did not return to the game. Team officials cited the reason as a "sore knee." A tweet by Mark Berman of the New York Post said Knicks sources told him that the injury was not believed to be serious.

"It's frustrating, because like I say I felt great before the game," Chandler said. "I was excited, team's looking good and we were up for this game to try to set the tempo moving into the first game of the year. And I mean I look at the stat sheet, I played 44 seconds, so it's just disappointing to happen at all."

The Knicks, who are already short Chandler's backup, Marcus Camby, who is also out with an injury, open the regular season on Nov. 1 against the host Nets in their new home in Brooklyn, N.Y. If Chandler is out for any appreciable amount of time, Rasheed Wallace could potentially take his place, but he's not quite ready or in shape for prolonged minutes just yet.

Posted by Andre Monohan on Friday October 26 2012, 3:59 PM EST. Ref: Yahoo. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0