{"id":696853,"date":"2026-04-04T00:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696853\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:12:16","slug":"towns-held-out-of-the-knicks-game-against-the-bulls-because-of-an-elbow-impingement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696853\/","title":{"rendered":"Towns held out of the Knicks&#8217; game against the Bulls because of an elbow impingement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New York center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/karl-anthony-towns-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> was held out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/new-york-knicks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Knicks<\/a>&#8216; game Friday night against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/chicago-bulls-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> because of a right elbow impingement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Towns was in a good mood as he participated in pregame warmups and took a couple of shots. However, he stood in front of the visitor\u2019s bench and grabbed his elbow before he walked off the court toward the home locker room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The All-Star center is averaging 20.1 points and 11.9 rebounds. He was replaced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/mitchell-robinson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell Robinson<\/a> in the starting lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New York center Karl-Anthony Towns was held out of the Knicks&#8216; game Friday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,329,563,304,1247,1407,6,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":{"0":"post-696853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-chicago-bulls","10":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","11":"tag-knicks","12":"tag-mitchell-robinson","13":"tag-national-basketball-association","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkknicks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116343550466670083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696853","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=696853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}