As Tim Hardaway Jr. undergoes tests to determine the extent of a stress injury to his left shin, a leading orthopedist at Northwestern University told The Post the Knicks shooting guard could be out as little as two weeks or as long as two months.
Dr. Wellington Hsu, professor of orthopedic surgery at Northwestern who wrote a paper on basketball leg fractures, said there are two types of stress injuries — a stress reaction and a stress fracture.
A stress fracture is such “a small break’’ that only an MRI exam or bone scan can determine this type of hairline fracture, Hsu said.