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Knicks Make Injury Announcement for Game 6 vs. Pacers

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Sean Deveney | Last updated May 30, 2025 11:16 PM ET

On Saturday, the Knicks will go to Indiana and, once again, play a basketball game with their entire 2024-25 season riding on it. This time it is Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals, a series that the Pacers lead, 3-2. The Knicks are attempting to come back from a 3-1 deficit, and join only 13 teams in league history that have done so in a seven-game series.

The Knicks face an uphill battle--the red-hot Pacers have not lost back-to-back games since early March, and even if the Knicks win Game 6, they'd still face a Game 7 on Monday.

One of the big reasons the Knicks are in position to fight on in a Game 6 was the play of Karl-Anthony Towns, whose injured knee was a focal point going into the game. Towns had banged knees with Aaron Nesmith of the Pacers late in Game 4, and was listed as "questionable" on the Knicks injury report.

Players listed as questionable on the official NBA report are determined to have a 50-50 chance of playing the g

Towns played, and played well, finishing with 24 points and 13 rebounds, plus three assists.

“We put a lot of hours in, trying to get myself ready so I could have a chance,” he said. “God was good. I was able to go out there and play.”

Towns was not 100% in the game, though, and there was some concern that he might be nursing the knee injury still on Saturday. But the Knicks filed their official injury report with the NBA on Friday night and, lo and behold, Towns is not on it.

In fact, no one is on it. The Knicks have been exceptionally healthy throughout this postseason, a trend they'll continue into Game 6. Whether they make it to a Game 7, though, is yet to be determined.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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