Miles McBride will return to action for the Knicks on Sunday after being sidelined since January 27 due to a sports hernia surgery, notes James L. Edwards III of The Athletic (via Twitter).
McBride is scoring at a career-best rate this season, averaging 12.9 points per game while hitting a career-high 42.0% of his 6.9 three-point attempts per game.
His return comes during a key stretch for the Knicks, who are looking to catch up to the Celtics for the second seed in the East while facing off against the Thunder and Rockets in one of their final regular-season tests. Coming into Sunday’s games, the Knicks were 1.5 games behind the Celtics.
Edwards adds (via Twitter) that McBride will be on a minutes restriction, though he doesn’t say what the restriction will be. Stefan Bondy of the New York Post adds that Landry Shamet is with the team on their road trip, and, according to coach Mike Brown, is progressing in his recovery from a bone bruise in his knee (Twitter link).
We have more injury notes from around the league:
According to Blazers coach Tiago Splitter, Jerami Grant underwent an MRI on his calf and will remain without a recovery timeline until he can go through more testing, Sean Highkin of the Rose Garden Report writes (via Twitter). Grant said he “felt a pop” in his right calf during the third quarter of Friday’s loss to the Mavericks.
Anthony Edwards has been upgraded to questionable for the Timberwolves‘ game on Monday, per Marc Stein of The Stein Line (Twitter link). Edwards has missed the Wolves’ last six games with a knee injury, with Minnesota going 3-2 in that time. The Wolves currently hold a half-game lead over the Rockets for the fifth seed in the West.
The Pistons have a lengthy injury report for Monday’s game against the Thunder, with Jalen Duren (right knee), Tobias Harris (left hip), and Duncan Robinson (right hip) all listed as doubtful, while Ausar Thompson (right ankle) is questionable. Detroit is already missing Cade Cunningham (left lung) and Isaiah Stewart (left calf).