Knicks 2nd round pick battling left knee injury
31 Aug
Via The Toronto Sun:
(Andy) Rautins, who came into the touranment nursing a left knee injury, played over 20 minutes in the first game and was a force throughout for Canada in a loss to Lebanon. Foul trouble kept him from being an even bigger factor.
In the second game, however, the New York Knicks second round pick was limping noticably in the first half and never really got rolling.
Head coach Leo Rautins admitted after the game, he probably should not have played him in the second half.
When the Canadian team took the floor for warmups prior to the France game, Rautins was in jeans and looking extremely dejected at the thought of not playing.
We hate hearing this news, as Rautins could really use floor time to work on his game, which was less than stellar this summer. However, we like hearing that he looked extremely dejected, because it shows a level of heart many prior Knicks (and current, see Eddy Curry) simply lacked.
