Hiccups of the kids and residence suffers significant knee injury

New York Knicks Draft guardian and states Rokas Jokubaitis suffered significant knee injury during Eurobasket 2025The casting further doubts whether they will ever determine the franchise.

Basketball reported Tuesday that Jokubaitis Support violations of ACL and meniscus in the left knee after undergoing MRI. The 24-year-old will travel to Munich for further assessment of Bayern Munich staff. The return will edit it for another NBA season and postpone your potential arrival in New York.

In early this summer, Jokubaitis signed a three-year contract with Baiern Munich, making it one of the German clubs, which is in front of them the Euroleague seasons. His injury occurred at the beginning of the fourth quarter in Lithuania 81-78 wins in Finland. Driving to the basket, Jokubaitis has laid the foot for a while after a lit contact with the counsel and immediately collapsed to the floor.

Visibly pain, the Lithuanian guard called to be substituted, its fatal and passed near the coaching staff. The teammates later greeted him in the locker room next by his way out.

Before you leave the game, Jokubaitis delivered another performance in the institution. He finished with Tim-High 16 points, nine assists, two jumps, and one steals while filming 6-in 13 from the field in 26 minutes. PLUS / minus of +9 with Efficiency Score has been published by 16.

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The injury was disturbed what was the Star Tournament for Jokubaitis. In the four matches in Eurobasket, 8.5 assists, 2.5 rebounds and 1.5 are stealing, and 1.5 steals during recording of 49.1 percent of the field and 55.6 percent from the range in three points. He led Lithuania in scoring, helps, steals, efficiency and plus / minus rating, with tournament-best +11.

Lithuania has a 3-1 record in group B and is prepared for dealing on Wednesday in Sweden. The team also contains the Denver Nuggets Center Jonas Valanciunas and is currently undergoing German, which drives Orlando Magic Franz Vagner and Sacramento Kings Guard Dennis Schroder.

The injury to Jokubaitis adds a long-standing Saga with the kids. Made 34. as a whole in the second round of the NBA 2021. Year draft Oklahoma, his rights is quickly traded in New York in the package involved in Milje McBride. Despite the participation in the summer league 2021, Jokubaitis returned to FC Barcelona and has been abroad since then. Each season encouraged speculation about its future NBA, but injuries and contractual obligations were held in Europe.

For New York, the latest developmental development cements for another year without Jokubaitis. Knicks is less than two months from the opener of its season against Cliveland Cavalies 22. October in Madison Square Garden, National Television game on ESPN.

Based with Jokubaitis, based on the foreseeable future, Lithuania Eurobasket campaigns and the upcoming season of NBA’s Knicks and moved forward without one of the most productive guards of the tournament.