Immanuel Quickley wore a walking boot as he limped toward the Knicks’ locker room early Monday evening.
MIAMI — Immanuel Quickley wore a walking boot as he limped toward the Knicks’ locker room early Monday evening, and his status for Game 4 unsurprisingly was made official a few minutes later.
In the latest ankle injury to affect the second-round series between the Knicks and the Heat, Quickley was ruled out with a sprained left ankle.Quickley when he got tangled up with Heat center Bam Adebayo while both were going for a loose ball during the fourth quarter of Game 3 on Saturday afternoon.He said after the game that the injury “hurt a lot.”
The 23-year-old Quickley has struggled to match his regular-season impact during the playoffs, averaging 9.0 points per game and shooting just 24.3 percent in eight games off the bench against the Cavaliers and the Heat.Second-year guard Miles McBrideThe other options would have been little-used veterans Evan Fournier and Derrick Rose.
Fournier has not appeared in any game of this year’s postseason entering Monday’s contest, while Rose played three minutes at the end of Game 3 in the first round against the Cavaliers.Follow The Post’s coverage of the Knicks vs. Heat NBA playoff series
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