Fred Katz

I mean, here's the thing, Zach, you know, that if there's one team that is going to be forthcoming with injuries, it's the New York Knicks.

You just, you, you are, you can, you can bet on everything that whatever the Knicks are saying is the absolute 100% truth.

The Knicks have never in a million years said that OGN and OB was day to day.

for two weeks straight and then had him undergo elbow surgery after those two weeks.

That's never happened.

It didn't happen.

They didn't say that Deuce McBride earlier this year was out with a knee injury only for him to undergo surgery for.

Yes, and to be clear, I'm not saying that OG Ananobi is more hurt than the Knicks are letting out.

I'm just saying that I kind of have to see it before we know.

The thing that the Knicks really benefit from is that the conference finals is not going to start until May 17th at the earliest, and if this Detroit series goes long against Cleveland, then it won't start until the 19th, and that'll give Ananobi almost two weeks off since first sustaining the injury, which is a really big deal for them.

Can I just read his playoff numbers really quick?

They're insane.

He's averaging 21.4 points.

He's shooting 62 from the field.

He's shooting 54 from three, 81 from the line, seven and a half rebounds from a guy who is not normally like, that's the one part of his game where it's like, you'd like to see that a little bit higher.

You'd like to see him a little bit better of a rebounder.

And defensively, he's been, I mean, look, I see him play all the time.

I'm at so many of these games in New York.

when you watch a guy who's that good, you end up, you end up becoming incredibly familiar with their nuances and defensive habits and all of that.

But I really think that defensively, he's been as good as he's ever been during this playoff run.