a 93-92 win over the Nets<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI wasn\u2019t going to play. My pops was adamant he wanted me to play,\u201d said Towns, who was listed as questionable for personal reasons before tipoff. \u201cSo I said I would. So I showed up just for the game to play. I\u2019m going to head right back out and go be with him again for the road to recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n
Karl Sr., a former star at Monmouth University, is a mainstay at his son\u2019s games, frequently flying commercial to follow the Knicks on road trips.<\/p>\n
Towns lost his mother, Jacqueline Cruz, to COVID-19 in 2020.<\/p>\n
Sources said Karl Sr.\u2019s medical issue is not life-threatening.<\/p>\n
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Karl-Anthony Towns, who scored 26 points and grabbed 15 rebounds, looks to make a move on Josh Minott during the Knicks\u2019 93-92 win over the Nets on March 20, 2026 at Barclays Center. Jason Szenes for New York Post<\/p>\n
The Nets still haven\u2019t officially ruled Michael Porter Jr. out for the rest of the season, but they might as well have.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn shut Porter down with a left hamstring strain and said he\u2019d be evaluated in two to three weeks.<\/p>\n
Asked if Porter could return this season, Nets coach Jordi Fern\u00e1ndez said: \u201cSo, two to three weeks, and then obviously there\u2019s a ramp-up to go back to competition level, so we cannot predict. But it will be close. So we\u2019re going to go through these two, three weeks and then put the work in and so forth; and then we\u2019ll see where we\u2019re at.\u201d<\/p>\n
With three weeks being the penultimate game April 10 in Milwaukee and the finale two nights later in Toronto, any ramp-up strains credulity.<\/p>\n
Noah Clowney missed Friday\u2019s game with a sprained right wrist and sounds unlikely to play Sundayat Sacramento.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, I mean obviously I had to take him out because he was really sore,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Noah, right away when I saw that he was in pain, I was like, \u2018Do you need a sub?\u2019 And I\u2019m like asking the guys to take a foul to be able to sub out, and I ended up calling a timeout. So he was pretty sore. He has a sprained wrist. He\u2019ll be out [Friday], most likely he\u2019ll be out next game, and then we\u2019ll go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Terance Mann (illness), Egor D\u00ebmin (plantar fasciitis), Day\u2019Ron Sharpe (thumb) were out for Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
Jalen Brunson, who sat out Tuesday\u2019s win over Indiana, returned to the lineup for his 65th game, qualifying for postseason awards.<\/p>\n
The Knicks guard is expected to land an All-NBA selection and is the reigning Clutch Player of the Year.<\/p>\n
Josh Hart was out with runner\u2019s knee.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn\u2019s Josh Minott had 22 points and hit 6-for-9 from deep.<\/p>\n
The six 3-pointers were a career best and the scoring was two points off his career high.<\/p>\n
He added five boards, two blocks and a steal in 25:47 off the bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An image collage containing 1 images, Image 1 shows Karl-Anthony Towns, who scored 26 points and grabbed 15…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7264,7,670,247,3803,227,113,288,327,7272,85724,563,304,562,102,6,671,3805,7290,680],"class_list":["post-671527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn-nets","tag-barclays-center","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklynnets","tag-egor-demin","tag-indiana","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-josh-hart","tag-josh-minott","tag-karl-sr","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-knicks","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-milwaukee","tag-nba","tag-nets","tag-noah-clowney","tag-terance-mann","tag-toronto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116269710281400406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671527","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=671527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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