Knicks head coach Mike Brown pushed back Tuesday on the idea that starting center Mitchell Robinson , whose surgically repaired left ankle has been managed under a strict protocol, will be in and out of the lineup all season.

“Well, I’m not sure about that,” Brown said after Robinson sat the first leg of the Knicks’ back-to-back against the Memphis Grizzlies . “We just gotta take that thing one game at a time and follow the lead of our medical people in terms of what the process is gonna be.”

Robinson underwent two procedures to repair stress fractures in his left ankle, the most recent coming two offseasons ago — a surgery that sidelined him until late February. He entered this season fully healthy, appeared in the first halves of New York’s first three preseason games, and then wa

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