Lin to Have Knee Surgery and May Miss 6 Weeks (original) (raw)
Basketball|Knicks’ Push for Playoffs Will Go On Without Lin
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Knicks 91, Cavaliers 75
Knicks’ Push for Playoffs Will Go On Without Lin
Jeremy Lin during a game against the Pistons at Madison Square Garden in New York in March.Credit...Suzy Allman for The New York Times
- March 31, 2012
Jeremy Lin’s rise was swift and magical, an N.B.A. fairy tale played out on a global stage, one enchanting chapter at a time, its conclusion a captivating mystery. That epilogue came Saturday night, much sooner than anticipated, with a shockingly cruel twist.
Lin, the Knicks’ young point guard sensation, needs surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee and will miss the rest of the regular season and probably the playoffs, assuming the Knicks make it.
“It is a big blow,” Coach Mike Woodson said Saturday night, moments after the team announced the news.
Lin will have arthroscopic surgery in the next few days and is expected to be out for six weeks. The season ends in less than four weeks, on April 26.
The Knicks — who improved to 27-26 with a 91-75 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday — are battling to hang onto the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. They are also missing Amar’e Stoudemire, their star forward, who has a bulging disk in his lower back and could miss another two to three weeks.
Without Lin and Stoudemire, the Knicks struggled to put away the Cavaliers (17-33), a lottery-bound team that was missing its star rookie, Kyrie Irving. The Knicks led by just 4 points with five minutes to play, before closing the game with a 15-3 run.
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