Knicks middle Mitchell Robinson is progressing in his rehab from offseason foot surgical procedure however has not graduated to any workforce drills or operating.
“He’s making good regular progress,” head coach Tom Thibodeau stated about Robinson after Saturday evening’s 120-111 loss to the Detroit Pistons.
Robinson was on the bench in road garments for the sport, which New York performed with out middle Karl-Anthony Cities.
“He is gone to extra stuff however nothing with the workforce but,” the pinnacle coach stated. “So he is making good, regular progress and we’re gonna be affected person with him.
“He’s doing a extremely good job and it’s good to have him across the workforce.”
When requested if Robinson had began operating, Thibs stated, “There’s a development that he has to undergo and he’s not fairly there but.”
“However doing a little gentle capturing on the court docket, and that form of factor,” he added.
SNY’s Ian Begley reported earlier than the beginning of the season that the Knicks didn’t wish to rush the rehab course of and had been focusing on a January return date.
“Robinson and the Knicks are being cautious and wish to ensure he’s one hundred pc wholesome earlier than he will get again,” Begley wrote in September.
Robinson sustained a stress harm to his left ankle within the second-round sequence in opposition to the Pacers – after sustaining an harm to the identical ankle throughout a tangle with Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid within the first-round sequence – and underwent a small process on the ankle in Might.
