[Charania] New York Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns has been downgraded to doubtful to play in tonight’s season opener against the Cleveland Cavaliers, sources tell ESPN.

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2. Good so everybody LOWERS the expectations about this season. The start will be rough.

3. Well, guess Brunson is going for 45pts on 25/45 shooting

4. He also said Mitch and Hart will be out awhile, wish the Knicks would be honest about Mitch and stop with this load management nonsense

5. It’s just regular season, get healthy and ready for playoffs should be the mantra. Just sucks not being full strength for opening night though

6. This is pretty soft.

7. The Hukporti Era begins

8. If you miss 40% of your starting lineup on day one, you might lose that first game

9. I feel like this is just Knicks preferred to not show their hand entirely at start of the season.

10. Ooof not a great start but what can we do but hope everyone becomes healthy and we figure it out in the meantime.

11. Thibs needs to stop playing them so many minutes

12. These all sound like recurring injuries that could pop up throughout the season! Not very encouraging!

13. Thibs would never let this happen!

    In all seriousness, better dealing with this now rather than in April.

14. We crying in the Knicks bed tonight….

15. You just knew the moment Thibs was fired then the injuries would start. This team was miraculously healthy last year somehow.

16. We need more depth on this team.

17. Wtf man

18. If there’s no Hart, KAT, or Mitch… what is the starting lineup??

    Do we move OG to the 4 and start Huk? Do we start Yabu at the 5 (he’s pretty small for that)… Keep OG at the 3, start Yabu and Huk? Does this mean Jemison is getting meaningful minutes?

    Cavs are one of the biggest teams in the league with the Mobley/Allen combo which doesn’t bode particularly well to be missing our front court.

19. Everyone knows the season starts on Christmas

20. Hopefully this is Giannis trade talks and keeping guys out to prevent injury.

21. Alright we’re starting 0-1.

    Sucks but in the grand scheme of things you’d rather this happen now than in April.

22. This is bullshit. I might hate Mike Brown already. Let the guys play Game 1 then start with this nonsense. This is absurd

23. Not ideal

24. https://i.redd.it/n1sbcifiapwf1.gif

25. These Mfs already on bullshit

26. The rational part of my brain says this isn’t ideal for the very first game but probably not an issue in the long term for any player not named Mitch. The doomer in me is definitely calling out like the green goblin mask though

27. What the hell is going on out here?

28. We’ve got the best medical staff in the entire NBA. I’d rather these guys get healthy instead of having them get hurt all year round because they couldn’t get right at the start of it. It’s a long season

29. Just gotta repeat to myself to give them the first 20-25 games to get things straight. Health chemistry lineups all that.

    

30. It’s game 1. Was Thib’s over usage of players so bad it carried into the next season?

31. The Knicks lucked out last year having the team stay healthy. OG, Towns, Mitch and Hart usually don’t play more than 65 games a season

32. Why are our players being injured this badly during training camp?

33. 🙁

34. 3 of the top 6 players out on opening day. Off to a good start.

35. It’s the season opener and already the season is cooked

36. I’ve never seen so many injuries in training camp for this team and I’ve watched them for 30 years.

37. I can’t man