ORLANDO — Uh oh. That’s not good. Landry Shamet never saw Wendell Carter Jr. coming.

Three minutes into Saturday’s 133–121 loss at Kia Center , the interim starting guard absorbed the full force of an uncalled illegal screen, crashing to the floor alongside Carter and Jalen Suggs. Shamet immediately clutched his right shoulder, got up in visible pain, and sprinted off the court — hunched over and grimacing — as he checked himself out of the game and straight into the locker room.

“It was tough, man. He’s been playing his ass off,” Karl-Anthony Towns said. “He’s been such a big contributor to our team and these last couple weeks he’s been able to show the NBA and fans of New York why he’s so valuable. It sucks that that happened [when] he’s right now rolling and has good momentum in his

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