{"id":650,"date":"2022-11-29T04:53:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T04:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/kat-may-have-avoided-serious-injury-after-being-helped-off-the-court\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T04:53:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T04:53:53","slug":"kat-may-have-avoided-serious-injury-after-being-helped-off-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/kat-may-have-avoided-serious-injury-after-being-helped-off-the-court\/","title":{"rendered":"KAT May Have Avoided Serious Injury After Being Helped Off the Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-38273\">\n<div class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n<noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KAT.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Karl-Anthony Towns\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KAT.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KAT-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KAT-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KAT-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KAT-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KAT-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KAT-100x56.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"\/><\/noscript> <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Minnesota Timberwolves forward Karl-Anthony Towns will undergo an MRI on his right calf tomorrow, but there is hope that he may have avoided substantial injury to his lower right leg, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/35134294\/sources-optimism-karl-anthony-towns-avoided-substantial-injury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Towns grabbed at his leg and went down near midcourt without any other players around him with less than five minutes to play in the third quarter. From the way he fell and was clutching his leg, it looked as though he could have done some serious damage, like a torn ACL or MCL.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old was assisted off the court to the locker room by team staff and teammate Rudy Gobert. Adrian Wojnarowski reports that \u201cinitial examination suggested that Towns\u2019 imaging upon returning to Minnesota would be unlikely to reveal severe damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Karl-Anthony Towns is helped off the court after an apparent lower leg injury. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RaisedByWolves?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RaisedByWolves<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NBA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AGHLLXlnbW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/AGHLLXlnbW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bally Sports North (@BallySportsNOR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BallySportsNOR\/status\/1597406396009664512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The team publicly announced the injury was a calf strain and ruled Towns out for the rest of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota ended up losing the game 142-127 to the Wizards, which puts them at 10-11 for the season.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/2022\/11\/28\/kat-may-have-avoided-serious-injury-after-being-helped-off-the-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Timberwolves forward Karl-Anthony Towns will undergo an MRI on his right calf tomorrow, but there is hope that he may have avoided substantial injury to his lower right leg, per ESPN. Towns grabbed at his leg and went down near midcourt without any other players around him with less than five minutes to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}