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Kristaps Porzingis leaves game with neck injury, X-rays negative

Related Topics: Soft tissue injury, Neck, X-ray, Bruise, Injury

Kristaps Porzingis suffered what the Knicks are calling a "soft tissue injury" -- meaning a bruise or a strain of some sort, not a bone issue -- to his neck on this play late in the fourth quarter of the Knicks' loss to the Spurs:

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Porzingis walked off on his own and declared himself "good" (true), but it was just a bummer of a play. Carmelo Anthony tried to go up with an offensive rebound, got undercut, and fell such that he sat directly on Kristaps neck, which isn't exactly built to carry 240 pounds of manmeat.