{"id":719435,"date":"2026-04-27T13:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/719435\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:12:19","slug":"knicks-news-ben-stiller-confident-in-donte-divincenzo-rebounding-after-torn-achilles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/719435\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks news: Ben Stiller confident in Donte DiVincenzo rebounding after torn Achilles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Game 4 between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets, <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/minnesota-timberwolves\/timberwolves-injury-donte-divincenzo-exit-game-4-leg-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donte DiVincenzo suffered a torn Achilles injury<\/a>, and the sports world, including <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/new-york-knicks\/knicks-news-ben-stiller-baffled-mike-brown-after-loss-to-hawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks superfan Ben Stiller<\/a>, was rocked.<\/p>\n<p>However, while it will be a long road to recovery, Stiller is confident in DiVincenzo to come back better than ever. Stiller took to X, formerly Twitter, to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BenStiller\/status\/2048448777208345055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">express his confidence<\/a> in him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a tough one,\u201d Still conceded. \u201cIncredible team player, great person. Wishing him a speedy recovery and to come back stronger which i know he will. [raised fist emoji]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stiller&#8217;s favorite team, the Knicks, rebounded after going down 1-2 against the Atlanta Hawks in their playoff series. They won Game 4, evening the series as it heads back to Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, Apr. 28.<\/p>\n<p>How did Timberwolves star Donte DiVincenzo&#8217;s torn Achilles injury happen?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3782040\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DiVincenzo-warms-up.jpg\" alt=\"Minnesota Timberwolves guard Donte DiVincenzo (0) warms up before the game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Minnesota Timberwolves at the American Airlines Center.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/>Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>DiVincenzo went down with his injury in Game 4 of the Timberwolves&#8217; series against the Nuggets on Saturday, Apr. 25. It occurred in the first quarter of the game.<\/p>\n<p>He went down with a non-contact injury, immediately calling for assistance from the bench. DiVincenzo had only played a minute and went 0-1 shooting from the floor at the time of his injury. He did have an assist, though.<\/p>\n<p>This put an abrupt end to his 2025-26 season. Despite the injury to DiVincenzo, the Timberwolves beat the Nuggets in Game 4, giving themselves a 3-1 lead and a chance to put Denver away on Monday, Apr. 27.<\/p>\n<p>A former first-round pick, DiVincenzo had one of his best years during the 2025-26 season. He averaged 12.2 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 3.8 assists per game in the regular season and played in all 82 games.<\/p>\n<p>DiVincenzo is a former first-round pick out of Villanova in the 2018 NBA Draft. He has played for the Milwaukee Bucks, Sacramento Kings, Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, and Timberwolves during his career. DiVincenzo is a one-time NBA Champion(with the Bucks) and was a two-time NCAA Champion in college.<\/p>\n<p>During Game 4 between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets, Donte DiVincenzo suffered a torn Achilles injury, and the sports world, including New York Knicks superfan Ben Stiller, was rocked.  However, while it will be a long road to recovery, Stiller is confident in DiVincenzo to come back better than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During Game 4 between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets, Donte DiVincenzo suffered a torn Achilles injury, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,7417,372,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":["post-719435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-knicks","tag-basketball","tag-celebrity","tag-donte-divincenzo","tag-knicks","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkknicks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116476848079997251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719435","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=719435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}