Towns and the Knicks will now head back to Boston for Game 5 on Wednesday night as they look to close out the series against the Celtics, who will likely be without their star forward Jayson Tatum after he suffered a non-contact injury late in the fourth quarter of Game 4.

Karl-Anthony Towns struggled mightily on the defensive end, but that’s not the reason the Knicks made the blockbuster trade to acquire him.

Despite lip-reading experts suggesting Karl-Anthony Towns said he broke his hand during the Knicks' Game 3 loss to the Boston Celtics, the big man is downplaying the injury. “It is what it is,” Towns told reporters when asked about his hand and how fans have interpreted the injury. “I just want to do whatever I can to be out there.”