Day: March 7, 2024

Oklahoma City Thunder center Bismack Biyombo appeared to collapse during Wednesday’s game at the Portland Trail Blazers. Biyombo fell to the floor during a timeout in the second quarter. He was later helped back to the locker room and evaluated.

Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault said Biyombo avoided any kind of serious medical issue.

“He’s fine. He just fainted, basically,” Daigneault said. “He was in the locker room at halftime laughing and joking.”

Biyombo was held out of the remainder of the game for precautionary reasons.

The Brooklyn Nets announced that Ben Simmons will miss the remainder of the regular season due to a lower back impingement. The Nets said Simmons and his representatives will work with Brooklyn’s medical personnel about the best way to treat him moving forward for long-term sustainable health.

Simmons appeared in only 15 games this season. Last season, Simmons played in 42 games for the Nets. He missed the entire previous season while holding out with the Philadelphia 76ers, and then rehabbing with Brooklyn.

Minnesota Timberwolves big man Karl-Anthony Towns has been diagnosed with a torn left meniscus. Towns’ will be out indefinitely.

Minnesota is in a battle for the top seed in the Western Conference Playoffs. Entering Thursday’s game, the Wolves are tied with the Oklahoma City Thunder at 43-19.

Towns had appeared in 60 of the Timberwolves first 62 games. He was a 2024 All-Star and averaging 22.1 points, 8.4 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game.

Trae Young was asked how he feels about trade rumors and potentially leaving the Atlanta Hawks. Young made it clear he wants to win, but that he wants to do it in Atlanta.

“For me, my whole vision was to always be here – like my whole goal is to win here,” Young said. “Win championships, bring people here with me and build this, this championship here and dynasty here. But who knows? Like it’s year six now and who knows? Like, for me, I want that.”

Young was asked to clarify that he wants to stay with the Hawks, and he confirmed that desire.

“Yeah, I mean, yeah, you’ve heard it from the source, like I wanna win but that’s what you’ve heard too. Like I just wanna win,” Young answered. “So that’s, that’s in Atlanta. That’s, that’s where I wanna be, that’s where I envision myself being. But that’s, that’s it. That’s it.”