{"id":610926,"date":"2026-02-19T03:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/610926\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T03:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:57:28","slug":"knicks-og-anunoby-toenail-less-but-ready-to-play-vs-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/610926\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks’ OG Anunoby toenail-less, but ready to play vs. Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"

After missing the Knicks<\/a>\u2018 final four games leading into the All-Star break with a toe injury, OG Anunoby<\/a> says he is ready to play against the Detroit Pistons on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Anunoby, who the team listed as out with a \u201ctoenail avulsion,\u201d said he currently has no nail on the injured toe after painfully having it removed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not for sure exactly how or what led up to it but I had it removed,\u201d he said after practice at the team\u2019s Tarrytown training facility on Thursday. \u201cIt\u2019s getting better each day. It\u2019s not even 2 weeks yet. But it\u2019s healing and each day, it\u2019s getting better and better.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no toenail. I don\u2019t know when it\u2019ll grow back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Knicks had won eight consecutive games before Anunoby left the rotation with his toe injury. They went 2-2 with him on the sidelines, including a 37-point loss to the Detroit Pistons and a three-point overtime loss to the Indiana Pacers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt that size and skill set, you always miss that when he\u2019s out,\u201d said head coach Mike Brown. \u201cBut at the end of the day, it doesn\u2019t matter who\u2019s in uniform. You\u2019ve gotta go try and play the right way to win but it\u2019s good to see him back on the floor for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anunoby is averaging 16.6 points, 5.4 rebounds and 2.4 assists, 1.7 steals and 0.7 blocks per game this season.<\/p>\n

REVENGE GAME<\/p>\n

The Knicks are 0-2 in their season series against the Pistons<\/a> with an average margin of defeat of 34.5 points. The lopsided nature of their losses, Brown said, should trigger a pride factor for Thursday\u2019s matchup against the East\u2019s top seed.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah it should. They didn\u2019t just win the game. They beat us pretty bad. So for us, I don\u2019t want to say this game is more important than the next game. Every game is extremely important, but there comes a certain point when you\u2019re in competition. If wins and losses are as lopsided as those two losses, that should shake you up a little bit,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the end of the day, we win tomorrow or win the next two games or however many games we play them, that doesn\u2019t necessarily guarantee come playoff time or vice-versa.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a firm believer that I\u2019ve been around this thing too long enough to see some teams go 0-4 and still win the series and some teams go 3-4 and still win the series. So that part doesn\u2019t matter, it\u2019s just about how the first two games turned out for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After missing the Knicks\u2018 final four games leading into the All-Star break with a toe injury, OG Anunoby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,296,188,3860,3636,304,6,741,297,81138],"class_list":{"0":"post-610926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-detroitpistons","12":"tag-injuries","13":"tag-knicks","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-og-anunoby","16":"tag-pistons","17":"tag-toenail"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116095290333763267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}