In his second game after missing a month-and-a-half, New York Knicks forward OG Anunoby seemed to be having some issues with his surgically repaired right elbow. Anunoby was spotted wincing and grimacing when he used his right arm to shoot or pass. Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau said this was expected, following Anunoby’s late-January surgery.
“Stuff like that is gonna happen,” Thibodeau said about Anunoby dealing with elbow pain. “We were expecting there to be bumps and bruises like that.”
For his part, Anunoby didn’t seem worried about his elbow.
“It’s just sore. Nothing really happened. Just went for a ball. And it hurt randomly, but it’s fine,” Anunoby said. He added that you can’t recreate the same rapid movements in practice as those that happen in games.
