It appears that Karl-Anthony Towns and the New York Knicks have avoided a serious injury scare following a fourth-quarter issue during Saturday night’s loss to the Chicago Bulls. The 29-year-old limped to the Knicks’ locker room with 1:36 remaining in the game after falling to the court upon converting an and-1 through Chicago’s Coby

Towns, who had 17 points and 22 rebounds in the loss, received roughly 1.1 million votes in the first returns of the fan All-Star ballot, the third-highest in the East behind just Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jayson Tatum. Last year with the Timberwolves, Towns only accumulated just 139,642 votes in the first round of fan voting.