The Knicks and their fans can breathe a sigh of relief as they avoid serious injury to the team captain and the best player. New York's injury issues to their frontcourt of Mitchell Robinson and Precious Achuiwa put the Eastern Conference team in a compromising position on defense.

However, Knicks star Jalen Brunson had an injury scare early in the second half, where he appeared to tweak an ankle and went to the locker room.You can see the moment of the ankle tweak on this replay shared by ClutchPoints on X,

Jalen Brunson was happy with Friday night’s result, but his own performance is still not up to his own admittedly high expectations.