Karl-Anthony Towns will now likely play in the New York Knicks’ season opener despite being downgraded to doubtful earlier on Wednesday.

According to the most recent NBA injury report, Towns has been upgraded to questionable for the game against the Cleveland Cavaliers with a right quad strain.

Before Towns sat out the Knicks’ final preseason game last Friday as a precaution, head coach Mike Brown said that the big man would have played had it been a regular-season or playoff game “to my understanding.”

An upgrade to Towns’ status is good news for a Knicks team who will be without both Josh Hart and Mitchell Robinson against the Cavaliers.

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Hart injured his back during a preseason game against the Philadelphia 76ers. He has not played since and was listed as being out with “lumbar spasms.”

“We’re trying to figure out his back, which is a tricky situation,” said Brown this week. “We have to be careful with it, we don’t want to rush him. We’ll be patient and figure it out as we go along. [Knicks head athletic trainer Casey Smith] does a great job, and we believe in them so we’re going to follow their plan.”

Robinson is being rested with “left ankle injury management,” according to the New York Post’s Stefan Bondy.

“Really it’s load management, which means that if we deemed it necessary, could he possibly go, yeah,” Brown said of Robinson. “But it’s a decision that myself, led by [Smith] whose in charge of performance on a daily basis. It will be like this the whole year.”

The absences could open up an opportunity for both Guerschon Yabusele, who signed a two-year deal with New York over the summer.