NY Knicks loss to Bulls
The Knicks have another loss last night to Chicago Bulls, where veteran guard Courtney Lee spoke to sources about his injury that he taken pain management injection to calm an inflamed nerve in his neck and will meet with doctors in a week to see if he can be cleared for practice.
Lee didn’t play in the preseason, hasn’t played in the regular season and hasn’t talked much. In his first comments in three weeks, Lee called the mysterious injury “something I wouldn’t wish on anyone” and couldn’t set a time when he thinks he’ll make his season debut.
Lee, 33, described it as “spasms, there’s a strain, it’s irritated, an inflamed nerve and a little bit of whiplash.’’
The laundry list has sparked conspiracy theories he’s being held out because the Knicks have tried to trade him to open more cap space for 2019.
The Post reported before training camp that if Lee were to be traded, he’d only want it to go to a contender and would prefer to stay put if it’s to another rebuilding team.
Lee hurt his neck after a hard Ron Baker foul in practice put him into a basket stanchion. He came back to practice late in preseason and took another hit and has been out since. Before talking to reporters in the locker room prior to the Knicks’ 116-115 double-overtime loss to the Bulls on Monday, he was turning his neck back and forth as if to exercise it.
“I’m assuming my body wasn’t ready for contact,’’ Lee said. “I took a little bit of contact and re-irritated the injury. I thought it was under control. I went back to practice and got hit again and irritated the nerve and it inflamed back up.”
Knicks rookie forward Kevin Knox scored two points and played five minutes in Monday’s double-overtime loss against the Chicago Bulls in his first game back from a sprained ankle.
Knox, New York’s first-round pick from this year’s NBA draft, had been out since Oct. 20 due to a sprained ankle he suffered against the Boston Celtics.
Knox made 1 of 2 field goals and recorded one steal and one turnover. He had scored 10 and 17 points in two complete games before he suffered the injury.
Teammate Tim Hardaway Jr., who suffered a back injury in Sunday’s loss to the Washington Wizards, was available to play but did not log any minutes on the court Monday.
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