Breaking: Knicks’ Mitchell Robinson out for the season with ankle injury

New York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson will be out for six to eight weeks after suffering a stress injury in his left ankle, which most probably has put an end to his season, the franchise announced on Tuesday, May 7.

Robinson played only 12 minutes in the Knicks’ Game 1 win over the Pacers on Monday, kicking off the second-round series for New York but finishing Mitch’s season earlier than he’d have liked it.

Robinson previously undergone surgery on the same ankle in December, missed 50 games following the operation, and returned to the court at the end of March. He appared in two games, was inactive for the following contest, and then played the final eight games of the regular season getting between 7:26 and 19:39 minutes of play.

Robinson played all first three games of the first-round matchup against Philly before missing Game 4 entirely. The big man was part of Games 5 and 6, however, racking up nearly 43 combined minutes of play.

After getting 11:47 on Monday’s Game 1, it’s fair to assume we won’t be watching Mitch grace a basketball court until October at the earliest.

“This is so f—d up dawg like I don’t even know what to say right now!” Robinson tweeted shortly after the announcement of his injury. After that, in a now-deleted message, he wrote, “This is not over ! I WILL SEEK REVENGE.”

Tom Thibodeau will inevitably have to make adjustments to the Knicks rotation for the remainder of the playoffs, which means New York will most probably bring back Precious Achiuwa on a more prominent role.

With the former Raptor taking over Robinson’s (active reserve) and Bojan Bogdanovic also done for the year, don’t rule out Alec Burks getting a few minutes here and there if only so New York doesn’t have to play six or seven men for 40+ minutes each every other night.

With this sad news, Mitch finishes the season averaging 5.6 PPG, 8.5 RPG, 1.2 SPG, and 1.1 BPG in 31 regular-season games and posting averages of 2.8 PPG, 6.8 RPG, 1.0 SPG, and 1.2 BPG in six postseason contests.

Stay strong, Mitch.