NEW YORK — RJ Barrett’s finger injury is more gruesome than imagined.
Before missing his fifth straight game with a lacerated digit, Barrett debunked the theory that he was scratched by Luka Doncic while explaining a nauseating truth.
“My own hand went into my other hand and my finger bent backward and popped out of place, which caused the laceration,” Barrett told reporters in his hometown of Toronto, where the Knicks faced the Raptors on Friday night. “So yeah, that’s what happened. It popped out. I popped it back into place. I didn’t see [bone]. I was told after it was more like tendons [that I saw]. But yeah, so I looked at my hand, it was definitely a laceration right there. So, I immediately just walked out and got it stitched up. So, I still have stitches in right now.”
