Thibodeau tried to maintain that perspective in meeting with the media after the game, and suggested that the injury to Mitchell Robinson, out most of the year with an ankle injury, and a late-season injury for Jalen Brunson,

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New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns is listed as questionable for Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Indiana Pacers due to a left knee contusion. Towns appe

Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said in his pre-game press conference Thursday that Towns would be a game-time decision, but he was listed in the official starters when they were posted about a half-hour before tip-off. He was listed as questionable with a left knee contusion, which he suffered in the Knicks' Game 4 loss on Tuesday.

Karl-Anthony Towns is starting despite a bruised left knee and the New York Knicks are keeping fellow center Mitchell Robinson in the lineup with him in their must-win Game 5 of the Eastern Conference