<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/wwe-news-triple-h-reveals-initial-roman-reigns-impression-jalen-brunson-josh-hart');   ga('set', 'title', 'Triple H reveals initial Roman Reigns impression to Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/WWE-news-Triple-H-reveals-initial-Roman-Reigns-impression-to-Jalen-Brunson-Josh-Hart.jpg"></figure><h1>Triple H reveals initial Roman Reigns impression to Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-12-16T17:33:54-08:00">December 16th, 5:33pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-12-16T17:33:54-08:00">December 16th, 5:33pm</time><address><a>Matty Breisch</a>Matty Breisch is a multifaceted writer who specializes in NFL and WWE content at ClutchPoints. He can be read at Heavy, FanSided, Philadelphia Sports Network, and right here at ClutchPoints. Are you ready to read about football and wrestling? Well, you've come to the right place.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>When he initially broke out onto the WWE main roster scene and especially after the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/wwe-seth-rollins-still-supports-ex-shield-member-jon-moxley" rel="noopener">desolation of The Shield</a>, few fans thought Roman Reigns was going to become the promotion’s next great star.</p><p>Sure, someone was going to have to take up the mantle for John Cena, especially as he became more and more involved in the Hollywood acting game, but goodness, he wasn’t even the most popular member of his faction, so the idea of turning him into the next Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson just because of their familial ties didn’t sit right with the fans booing him on the regular.</p><p>And yet, if you as Paul “Triple H” Levesque about his initial opinions on the “Tribal Chief,” which Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart did on their <i>The Roomates Show</i> podcast, the answer couldn’t be any more different, with “The Game” recalling a conversation with Dusty Rhodes that <a href="https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/triple-h-when-i-first-met-roman-reigns-i-told-dusty-rhodes-if-he-s-not-biggest-star-we-don-t-know" rel="noopener">laid out much of his future success in the squared circle</a>.</p><p>“The first time I ever met Roman Reigns, I had just taken over and started what would become our developmental system, and he had just transitioned over from football to being in our developmental system. The first day I met him, I sat down with him for 20 minutes just to get to know him a little bit,” Levesque explained via Fightful.</p><p>“Walked out of the interview and, at the time, Dusty Rhode was working in developmental with me, I walked up to Dusty and said, ‘If that kid is not the biggest star we ever have in ten years, I don’t know what we’re doing. Holy sh*t. He has everything.’ When he walked in the room, you couldn’t help but look at him and go, ‘Who is that?’ He has an innate X-factor charisma. Sometimes that happens, sometimes it’s the guy you don’t see it in them, ‘He’s good. He’s athletic. He’s this and that,’ but it’s really the character stuff. Sometimes it clicks, and sometimes it doesn’t.”</p><p>Now granted, as many WWE fans of the late-Vince McMahon era will happily attest, Reigns’ success is reliant on having good writing to back him up, as when he was <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/wwe-la-knight-just-buried-roman-reigns-ahead-of-their-wwe-championship-match-at-crown-jewel-suffering-succotash">spitting off lines straight out of a Looney Tunes skit</a> or being forced to eat dog food, he wasn’t exactly popular. Still, part of opportunity is taking advantage of what you are given, and when Reigns accepted a chance to turn heel alongside Paul Heyman, he ran with it to an incredible degree, turning in the performance of a lifetime with The Bloodline and becoming a Hall of  Fame-caliber performer over his expansive run with the Universal Championship.</p><p>Was the road a little more winding than even Levesque might have expected? Sure, but in the end, he got there, and frankly, that’s all that really matters.</p><figure class="op-interactive"></figure><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Triple H reveals initial Roman Reigns impression to Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/knicks-news-josh-hart-makes-out-of-pocket-jalen-brunson-gradey-dick-comments');   ga('set', 'title', 'Knicks’  Josh Hart makes out of pocket Jalen Brunson-Gradey Dick comments');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Knicks-news-Josh-Hart-makes-out-of-pocket-Jalen-Brunson-Gradey-Dick-comments.jpg"></figure><h1>Knicks’  Josh Hart makes out of pocket Jalen Brunson-Gradey Dick comments</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-12-09T21:25:50-08:00">December 9th, 9:25pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-12-10T14:54:03-08:00">December 10th, 2:54pm</time><address><a href="https://letterboxd.com/splooshpuhrty/films/by/your-rating/">Jedd Pagaduan</a>Jedd Pagaduan is a certified Clippers and Gunners fan, which means he's a very sports-traumatized individual. He now writes about sports instead as a form of therapy.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>There is nothing that the New York Knicks would have wanted more on Monday night than to score a victory over the Toronto Raptors to send them off on their merry way en route to their impending NBA Cup clash against the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday.</p><p>And that’s exactly what they got. Thanks to some clutch heroics from Karl-Anthony Towns, the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/raptors-news-scottie-barnes-exits-knicks-game-troubling-injury">Knicks took a 113-108 victory</a> to improve to 15-9 on the season.</p><p>But apparently, according to Knicks forward Josh Hart, star point guard Jalen Brunson had a greater want in mind all night long — <a href="https://x.com/SbondyNBA/status/1866325336427799039" rel="noopener">hilariously invoking</a> Raptors sophomore Gradey Dick’s name in the process of saying what might be one of the most out of pocket things any NBA player has ever said.</p><p>“Second half, Jalen Brunson kept saying, I want Dick. I’ll take Dick,” Hart told reporters postgame, per Stefan Bondy of the New York Post.</p><p>Hart has always been one of the funniest people in the league. <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-josh-harts-hilarious-plan-for-nba-cup-bonus">His deadpan humor</a> is nearly unmatched, and one would have to imagine that the Knicks forward said that about Brunson with a straight face. But Hart hilariously cannot be joking about these matters, especially given the suggestive nature of the Raptors sophomore’s last name.</p><p>For what it’s worth, Dick has embraced jokes regarding his surname in the past. The <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba-news-raptors-gradey-dick-magic-anthony-black-go-viral-after-hilarious-jersey-exchange">Raptors sophomore accepted a jersey swap</a> with Orlando Magic guard Anthony Black last season, giving birth to one of the wildest and most hilarious moments in NBA history. Thus, it’s guaranteed that Dick’s heart won’t turn hard following Hart’s joke towards Brunson.</p><p>It’s good that Dick has a soft stance towards jokes regarding his surname and that he’s not extending any ill will towards such banter, which is good news for the Knicks forward.</p><h2><b>Jalen Brunson responds to Josh Hart’s wild joke after Knicks win</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Knicks-guard-Jalen-Brunson-11-and-forward-OG-Anunoby-8-react-after-a-three-point-basket-by-center-Karl-Anthony-Towns.jpg"><figcaption>© John E. Sokolowski-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>And while Jalen Brunson may have allegedly said, according to Josh Hart, that he “wants” and “will take” Gradey Dick, the Knicks guard <a href="https://x.com/jalenbrunson1/status/1866345766102479145" rel="noopener">vehemently denied such accusations</a> — even posting on his official account on X (formerly Twitter) to clear his name.</p><p>“He’s lying on my name,” Brunson wrote.</p><p>Upon closer look, it does look like Hart truly is lying regarding this matter (of course he is). The Knicks guard was defending Ochai Agbaji to end the game, with Mikal Bridges being the one to take the Dick assignment. Nonetheless, don’t expect this to be the last time that Hart makes fun of Brunson in an out of pocket manner.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Knicks’  Josh Hart makes out of pocket Jalen Brunson-Gradey Dick comments

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/knicks-news-josh-harts-hilarious-plan-for-nba-cup-bonus');   ga('set', 'title', 'Josh Hart’s hilarious plan for Knicks’ potential NBA Cup bonus');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/0Josh-Harts-hilarious-plan-for-NBA-Cup-bonus0.jpg"></figure><h1>Josh Hart’s hilarious plan for Knicks’ potential NBA Cup bonus</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-12-04T07:39:08-08:00">December 4th, 7:39am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-12-04T07:39:08-08:00">December 4th, 7:39am</time><address><a href="https://letterboxd.com/splooshpuhrty/films/by/your-rating/">Jedd Pagaduan</a>Jedd Pagaduan is a certified Clippers and Gunners fan, which means he's a very sports-traumatized individual. He now writes about sports instead as a form of therapy.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>On Tuesday night, the New York Knicks destroyed the Orlando Magic, 121-106, in an NBA Cup game that was not as competitive as the final score line would indicate. This win meant that the Knicks will be advancing to the quarterfinals of the competition, going unbeaten and therefore booking a matchup against the Atlanta Hawks on December 11. New York is inching more closely to the grand monetary prize, with the players on the NBA Cup champion’s roster <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/lakers-news-lebron-james-locked-in-on-500000-prize-after-duplicating-extremely-rare-defensive-feat">set to make $500,000 each</a>.</p><p>This major monetary incentive is proving to be the lifeline of the NBA Cup, with players looking to do their best to win the silverware not only to get a <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/lakers-lebron-james-gets-hilariously-real-about-why-hes-taking-charges-at-age-38">good payday for themselves</a>, but most importantly, for the less heralded players on the team who are making pennies compared to the superstars of the association.</p><p>But for Knicks wing Josh Hart, he (jokingly) <a href="https://twitter.com/knicksmuse/status/1864161428418011509" rel="noopener">doesn’t plan to be as benevolent</a> if they do manage to become the NBA Cup champion for 2024.</p><p>“I might get a new watch, though. Yeah, [I’m scrapping for the money]. I don’t really care about the young guys getting any money, I only care about me, what I’m gonna spend. I want a new watch. I’m gonna get that. Gonna get a new car,” Hart hilariously quipped to reporters following their win over the Magic, via KnicksMuse on X (formerly known as Twitter).</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Josh Hart on his NBA Cup bonus:</p><p>“I don’t really care about the young guys getting any money, I’m just worried about me, what I’m gonna spend”</p><p>Brunson: “You’re a f*cking asshole” 😭</p><p>(via <a href="https://twitter.com/NikiLattarulo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NikiLattarulo</a>) <a href="https://t.co/klvbUQbhKH">pic.twitter.com/klvbUQbhKH</a></p><p>— KnicksMuse (@KnicksMuse) <a href="https://twitter.com/KnicksMuse/status/1864161428418011509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Knicks star Jalen Brunson overheard the interview in its entirety and joked about how messed up Hart’s remarks were.</p><p>“You’re a f**king asshole,” Brunson screamed in the background.</p><p>One reporter asked if Hart would allocate some of his winnings towards gambling if the Knicks do manage to win it all. But the 29-year-old seems to have sworn this off completely.</p><p>“Nah, I don’t even bet no more bro,” Hart added.</p><p>It might not be the best idea for the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-tom-thibodeau-reveals-immediate-concern-after-nba-cup-win-vs-magic">Knicks to count their chickens before they hatch</a> — especially when they will have a formidable matchup ahead of them in the NBA Cup quarterfinals.</p><h2><b>Knicks set to battle against Hawks in NBA Cup quarterfinals</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Knicks-head-coach-Tom-Thibodeau-talks-to-guard-Josh-Hart.jpg"></figure><p>The Atlanta Hawks seem to be a bit of a thorn in the Knicks’ side over the past few seasons; who could forget the time when the Hawks defeated the Knicks in the 2021 NBA playoffs — with Trae Young making Madison Square Garden his personal playground?</p><p>Earlier this season, the Knicks also lost to the Hawks, 121-116, in a thrilling game that saw Atlanta pull out the win in the end. The Hawks have athletes across multiple positions that can tire out a shallow Knicks team, while Jalen Brunson will have his hands full dealing with Dyson Daniels’ defense. The Knicks, on paper, should be favored, but there is no counting out the Hawks in the NBA Cup — especially after they beat the Cleveland Cavaliers and Boston Celtics in group stage action.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Josh Hart’s hilarious plan for Knicks’ potential NBA Cup bonus

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/knicks-news-jalen-brunson-josh-hart-hilariously-different-motivations-nba-cup');   ga('set', 'title', 'Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart’s hilariously different motivations for NBA Cup');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Knicks-news-Jalen-Brunson-Josh-Harts-hilariously-different-motivations-for-NBA-Cup-1.jpg"></figure><h1>Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart’s hilariously different motivations for NBA Cup</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-12-02T12:25:55-08:00">December 2nd, 12:25pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-12-02T12:25:55-08:00">December 2nd, 12:25pm</time><address><a>Matt De Lima</a>Matt De Lima is an Associate Editor for NFL and college football at ClutchPoints. He has been covering sports for over 12 years at sites like Sports Illustrated, The Game Day, and countless others. Born and raised in California, he is a graduate of Virginia Tech and a diehard Hokies fan who now resides in southern Maryland.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Players on the winning NBA Cup team are awarded over $500K each, and even players on the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-tom-thibodeau-refuses-blame-quentin-grimes-0-point-bucks">losing quarterfinals teams</a> are given $50K. Consider it a holiday bonus since the NBA Cup concludes on December 17. What players do with that money is their business, and when you consider the disparity between guys on a supermax contract compared to the NBA G League guys on two-way contracts, the motivating differences are huge. When asked what they’ll do with their bonus money, New York Knicks stars Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart had comically different motivations <a href="https://x.com/Krisplashed/status/1863648597985697844">to win</a> the NBA Cup, per NY Daily News’ Kristian Winfield.</p><p>“Jalen Brunson said he wanted to win the NBA Cup in part to help teammates on min. salaries and 2way deals to get a $500k payday. Asked Josh Hart after practice today about winning the Cup so those teammates could get paid: ‘No. I wanna win cause I want a damn watch. The new AP.’</p><p>For those of you who aren’t high-end watch connoisseurs, Hart is referring to the brand Audemars Piguet. The nearly 150-year-old Swiss watchmakers are world-renowned for their luxury timepieces, which range from the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars.</p><p>Last year, the Knicks advanced to the knockout stage and qualified as the Eastern Conference’s No. 4 seed at the bracket stage. They lost to the East’s No. 1 seed in the quarterfinal round. The Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA Cup championship game, 123-109, against the Indiana Pacers.</p><h2><b>Knicks are a tier below in the East</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Knicks-Jalen-Brunson-Josh-Hart-1.jpg"><figcaption>© Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>It’s a long season, and situations can change, but New York doesn’t quite seem to be at the same level as the top of the Eastern Conference. In the top tier, there are the Cleveland Cavaliers and Boston Celtics. In the second tier are the upstart Orlando Magic and the Knicks.</p><p>In Brett Siegel’s latest <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba-power-rankings-24-25-week-6-magic-rockets-soar-surprise-success-stories">NBA Power Rankings</a>, New York climbed one spot up to No. 10.</p><p>“When the New York Knicks have 33-point victories like they did over the New Orleans Pelicans, or even 27-point statement wins on the road against the Denver Nuggets, they look like one of the best teams in the league. Then there are the hiccups that have existed this year for the Knicks, like a 15-point road loss in Dallas or a one-point win in Charlotte. The Knicks have won four straight conference games, yet inconsistencies that lie on the defensive end of the floor are a concern for this group.”</p><p>The Knicks are a starter-heavy team and must continue to ingratiate role players off the bench like Miles McBride and Cameron Payne. The latter, a 10-year vet in his first year in New York, is shooting well at a .439 clip from three-point range at about 18 minutes per game.</p><p>Getting guys like Precious Achiuwa and Mitchell Robinson back on the court will only help keep the Knicks’ stars healthy later in the season.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart’s hilariously different motivations for NBA Cup

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Kris brings several years of experience reporting on and writing about professional teams to the table. With experience all over the country as a New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Mets, Super Bowl LVIII, and Big East beat reporter, Kris has been breaking news and reporting on the NBA, NFL, MLB, and college basketball landscapes for years. Kris is a proud graduate of Fordham University.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>After the Knicks’ 138-122 <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-jalen-brunson-karl-anthony-towns-taking-same-kobe-shaq-path">Wednesday road win</a> over the Phoenix Suns, Josh Hart <a href="https://x.com/DuaneRankin/status/1859497853086990817" rel="noopener">told reporters</a> that he’s feeling confident in his shot. And that they can roll with narratives about his hesitation to if they want, but he’s the person in charge of the shots that Josh Hart takes.</p><p>“I’m confident in my shot right now,” Hart said in the visitors’ locker room. “I’ll leave the, ‘I’m not confident,’ or, ‘I’m scared to shoot’ narrative for y’all. Y’all can roll with that if y’all want, but at the end of the day – for me, you know – I like to play my game how I want to play my game. I like taking my shots how I want to take them. Taking the shots that I want. Um, and I don’t let anyone affect that.”</p><p>Hart is known for his <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-josh-hart-calls-out-media-early-hiccups">willingness to be silly translating to leadership</a> in the Knicks locker room. But he was quite the straight shooter here, pun certainly intended.</p><h2><b>Josh Hart is propelling the Knicks with his great… shooting?</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Josh-Hart-and-Mikal-Bridges-celebrating-a-Knicks-three.jpg"><figcaption>Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Hart contributed greatly to the Knicks’ Wednesday night win over the short-handed Suns. He recorded 19 points, 11 rebounds, six assists, and three steals, and only recorded one turnover and two fouls. Hart made eight of his 11 shot attempts including two of his three from behind the 3-point arc. Single game +/- numbers can be extremely finicky but Hart had the second-highest of the contest with a +22.</p><p>And this performance was just one of many thus far in a season full of offensive growth for the 29-year old Swiss army knife of a wing. Hart played in six games during the 2023-24 regular season in which he finished with 18 points or more. He’s reached that mark three different times in the first month of play this season.</p><p>And wait, there’s more! When <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/grading-the-knicks-blazers-josh-hart-cam-reddish-trade">the Knicks traded for Hart in the 2022-23 season</a>, he shot 58.6% from the floor in the portion of the season he played for New York. But in his first full season as a Knick, Hart’s FG% plummeted to 43.4%. A combination of several factors likely caused this: the additional volume in attempts that came as a result of the several injuries the Knicks sustained that season, being tasked with more ticking end-of-shot clock time bombs, and simple variance.</p><p>But Hart has made 81 of his first 136 shot attempts in the ’24-25 NBA season. That’s good for 59.6% which would easily be his career-high if the season ended today.</p><p>Hart is averaging what would be the fourth-highest volume of shot attempts per game of his career. And he’s making the most of them. The additional space on the court as a result of sharing the floor with four highly-reputable shooters is helping. And Josh Hart’s success on the <i>offensive</i> side of the floor is proof for Knick fans that their team’s huge experiment seems to be working so far.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Josh Hart calls out ‘scared to shoot’ narrative

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He graduated from Florida Atlantic University in 2022 after covering the school's athletic programs since his freshman year at the FAU University Press, where he was a Sports Editor and Editor-in-Chief. He then covered FAU Sports for The Palm Beach Post.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>As the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nets-vs-knicks-prediction-odds-pick-for-nba-cup-2024">New York Knicks next face the Brooklyn Nets</a> in the quest for the NBA Cup, the team has high expectations due to their major additions plus their centerpieces in Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart, all led by head coach Tom Thibodeau. On the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-rick-brunson-honest-donte-divecenzo-confrontation">Knicks’ coaching staff is Rick Brunson</a>, father of Jalen, as he spoke about the relationship between Hart and Thibodeau.</p><p>Hart would speak on the podcast <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWvBl2waNkQ&amp;list=PLJWpB080n91MFHOloB1mCWlwWm5EH4Lqx&amp;t=920s" rel="noopener">“The Roommates”</a> about the coaching of Thibodeau and his view that he can get mentally lost if the head coach runs through the same plays two straight days before a game using his specific example. Brunson would then reason with Hart that while the star player has got the plays down, there could be others that still want to go through it and even humorously called the 29-year-old <a href="https://x.com/Roommates__Show/status/1857167495024488707" rel="noopener">“selfish.”</a></p><p>“So that’s your perspective, right? So his perspective as a coach is it’s like a classroom,” Brunson said. “I’m just going to teach Josh, or I’m going to teach everybody. So sometimes a smart kid because you are smart, right? That’s what you’re saying, but sometimes you have to let the other guys catch up to you. So when Thibs is teaching, maybe Tuesday, he’s teaching you, and on Wednesday, he’s teaching the next player. You’re selfish; you want him to stop, so you want class to be over. When Josh gets it, it’s over that’s what you’re saying.”</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Rick: “You are smart, right?</p><p>Josh: “Mhm”</p><p>Rick: “But sometimes you have to let the other guys catch up to you.”</p><p>Josh: “That’s a valid point.”</p><p>Rick: “You’re selfish…. Once you get it, you want class to be over?”</p><p>Josh: “Yeah!” <a href="https://t.co/tCYGWXCtha">pic.twitter.com/tCYGWXCtha</a></p><p>— Roommates Show (@Roommates__Show) <a href="https://twitter.com/Roommates__Show/status/1857167495024488707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://instagram.com/embed.js"></script></p></figure><h2><b>Knicks’ Josh Hart explains how he gets mentally “gone” </b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Josh-Hart-and-Tom-Thibodeau-on-Dec.-5-2023.jpg"><figcaption>Michael McLoone-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>The <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-jalen-brunson-nearly-speechless-about-in-and-out-game-winner-vs-bulls">Knicks are coming off a one-point loss to the Chicago Bulls,</a> where they look to turn a new leaf and start to get back in the winning column. When focusing on Brunson’s response, Hart would initially ask Brunson for his thoughts on Thibodeabu’s coaching style since the two coaches have known each other for a long time.</p><p>“As you know, you’ve been with Thibs for I don’t know how long, and you knew him for so long,” Hart said. “If you have like 2 days between a game and it’s not an off day, you’re going to go through the team’s plays, and then the next day you’re going to go through the team’s plays again, and then another day. I’m like, brother, I just went through the plays twice, two days in a row, and I know what their plays are, too. That’s when the mental is just gone.”</p><p>On the season, Hart is averaging 13.1 points, 9.2 rebounds, and 5.6 assists per game while shooting 58.3 percent from the field and 29.4 percent from beyond the arch. He looks to further build the chemistry along with new acquisitions Karl-Anthony Towns and former Villanova teammate Mikal Bridges.</p><p>At any rate, New York is currently 5-6, which puts them fourth in the Eastern Conference before their NBA Cup group play matchup against the Nets Friday night.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Knicks’ Josh Hart gets called out for selfish behavior by Rick Brunson

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/knicks-news-josh-hart-trolled-hard-plays-donkey-loss-bulls');   ga('set', 'title', 'Knicks’ Josh Hart trolled hard, plays donkey in loss to Bulls');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Josh-Hart-trolled-hard-plays-donkey-in-loss-to-Bulls.jpg"></figure><h1>Knicks’ Josh Hart trolled hard, plays donkey in loss to Bulls</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-11-13T22:15:26-08:00">November 13th, 10:15pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-11-14T05:21:23-08:00">November 14th, 5:21am</time><address><a>Michael Aaron Gomez</a>Michael Aaron Gomez is a creative writer and longtime NBA fan. He has been a fan of the Lakers since the three-peat but believes LeBron James is the greatest player of all time.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Chicago Bulls</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>In one of the strangest endings to a game this season, the New York Knicks lost to the Chicago Bulls, 124-123, thanks to an ill-considered foul by Josh Hart on a Coby White go-ahead three with three seconds left. After White made all three free throws, Jalen Brunson still had a chance to win the game, but his mid-range shot from the baseline rolled all the way around the hoop before rimming out. Due to his role the loss, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-josh-hart-calls-out-media-early-hiccups">Josh Hart received trolling</a> from the fans who couldn’t believe his error.</p><p>Check out this replay of his late-game foul courtesy of Bricks Center on X, formerly Twitter. However, from the replay, some fans might think there was no contact, and the officials shouldn’t have called anything.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Josh Hart with the dumbest foul of the year 💀 <a href="https://t.co/SAvGOsvtXN">pic.twitter.com/SAvGOsvtXN</a></p><p>— BricksCenter (@BricksCenter) <a href="https://twitter.com/BricksCenter/status/1856894174664040569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><h2><b>The Knicks’ crushing loss</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Josh-Hart-reacting-to-his-costly-foul.jpg"><figcaption>© John Jones-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Here’s some reactions from the fans on Josh Hart’s heartbreaking error that cost the Knicks the game against the Bulls.</p><p>First, @NBAMemes uploaded a reaction photo of Jalen Rose watching another blunder from Tuesday’s <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/heat-news-erik-spoelstra-embarrassing-blunder-pistons-heat">Heat-Pistons game: Erik Spoelstra calling a timeout</a> when he didn’t have one, an uncharacteristic blunder that gave the Pistons the game-winning free throw.</p><p>(The PTSD from the Michigan Wolverines losing the 1993 National Championship to North Carolina due to <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pistons-news-jalen-rose-hilarious-flashback-reaction-to-erik-spoelstra-timeout-blunder">Chris Webber calling the fatal timeout appeared on Rose</a>‘s face.)</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Knicks fans watching Josh Hart foul Coby White in the final seconds <a href="https://t.co/6zDQt4RJ0F">pic.twitter.com/6zDQt4RJ0F</a></p><p>— NBA Memes (@NBAMemes) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBAMemes/status/1856895670189527272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Meanwhile, another user @Eagles_Arthur referenced the Knicks guard’s generosity in giving away free tickets to fans while trolling him for his foul.</p><p>“To [Josh Hart] instead of giving tickets to fat f**ks who play victim all the time work on ur off ball defense u dumbass,” the person commented.</p><p>Another fan account @RyB_311 echoed the previous commenter’s sentiments.</p><p>“Josh Hart gave out courtside seats to everyone to see him sell the game LMFAO,” they said.</p><p>On the other hand, @StephNoh checked the replay and wondered whether there was even any contact at all, asking, “Did Josh Hart foul Coby White’s hair?”  However, the refs might have seen Hart’s off-hand touching White’s ball as he jumped to take the shot, hence the call.</p><h2><b>Blame game</b></h2><p>Whatever the case, Hart refused to blame the officials for the call.</p><p>“We lost the game because <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/13/sports/josh-harts-brutal-late-foul-spoils-knicks-furious-rally-in-loss-to-bulls/" rel="noopener">I fouled at the end</a>,” he said, via Peter Botte of the New York Post. “There’s no silver lining. There’s no other excuse. I made an inexcusable mistake at the end of the game and it cost us the game. And now, there’s nothing we can do about it.”</p><p>The Knicks had clawed back from a 22-point deficit late in the third quarter to take the lead, thanks to Jalen Brunson’s go-ahead layup with 4.6 seconds left. However, the costly foul made the loss even more crushing.</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/timberwolves-finalizing-shocking-karl-anthony-towns-trade-with-knicks">New Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns</a> also posted a season-high 46 points while Mikal Bridges contributed with 20.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Knicks’ Josh Hart trolled hard, plays donkey in loss to Bulls

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/knicks-news-josh-hart-calls-out-media-early-hiccups');   ga('set', 'title', 'Josh Hart calls out media for ‘crying’ over Knicks’ early hiccups');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Knicks-news-Josh-Hart-calls-out-media-crying-over-New-Yorks-early-hiccups.jpg"></figure><h1>Josh Hart calls out media for ‘crying’ over Knicks’ early hiccups</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-11-13T10:31:53-08:00">November 13th, 10:31am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-11-13T10:34:08-08:00">November 13th, 10:34am</time><address><a>Kris Pursiainen</a>Kris Pursiainen is an Associate Editor for all sports based in the NJ/NYC area. Kris brings several years of experience reporting on and writing about professional teams to the table. With experience all over the country as a New York Knicks, New York Jets, New York Mets, Super Bowl LVIII, and Big East beat reporter, Kris has been breaking news and reporting on the NBA, NFL, MLB, and college basketball landscapes for years. Kris is a proud graduate of Fordham University.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/3-biggest-76ers-takeaways-from-joel-embiid-return-vs-knicks">New York Knicks routed</a> the Philadelphia 76ers on the opening Cup Night of the first-ever Emirates NBA Cup, 111-99. The story of the night of Joel Embiid’s return and the debut of Philadelphia’s big three was Josh Hart’s triple-double performance of 14 points, 12 rebounds, and 10 assists. After the game, Hart <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/12/sports/knicks-finally-unlock-fourth-quarter-formula-in-nba-cup-win-over-76ers/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social" rel="noopener">joked with</a> the media about the concerns over the Knicks’ play throughout their first nine games.</p><p>“We’re just 10 games into the season,” said Hart of his Knicks, per Stefan Bondy of The New York Post. “We’ve got [the media] all crying about how we look, offensively, defensively. Some people ready to pack the season in, some people saying we lost our identity. We don’t listen to it. At the end of the day, we know what we have and it takes some fine-tuning.”</p><p>Hart had said during the team’s<a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-josh-hart-has-concerning-admission-after-preseason-loss-to-wizards"> preseason stretch of the schedule</a> that he was “lost” out there on the offensive side of the court. His head coach, Tom Thibodeau, was asked about Hart’s concerns after his triple-double to finish his postgame press availability. Thibodeau <a href="https://x.com/NBA_NewYork/status/1856544699521052972" rel="noopener">said that</a> the way to handle situations where Hart makes comments like that is to let them “go in one ear and out the other.”</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">“A lot of what he says you gotta let go in one ear and out the other. He likes to hear himself talk”</p><p>–– Thibs on Josh Hart in preseason saying he’s “lost”</p><p>Hart is averaging career highs in rebounds, assists &amp; field-goal percentage 🤣 <a href="https://t.co/d6kW96uWOq">pic.twitter.com/d6kW96uWOq</a></p><p>— New York Basketball (@NBA_NewYork) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBA_NewYork/status/1856544699521052972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://instagram.com/embed.js"></script></p></figure><p>Sound familiar? It’s because he’s said this, <a href="https://x.com/krispursiainen/status/1767733834089459748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener">almost exactly</a>, before.</p><p>Hart is a joy to cover and watch play basketball. But it seems like his teammates and coaching staff have him figured out. A week after Hart’s “lost” admission, Jalen Brunson <a href="https://x.com/NBA_NewYork/status/1850007579318960303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener">addressed it</a> after Hart had scored 20 points in a win:</p><p>“He just talks &amp; talks. The one person I really don’t worry about at all. Dude doesn’t know when to stop talking”</p><p>Wednesday night is not the first time that Josh Hart has had an impactful performance in the wake of telling the world something that caused many to fear what might come next for the New York Knicks.</p><h2><b>Let Hart be Hart</b></h2><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_3120043" style="width: 1024px;"><img alt="Nov 12, 2024; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; New York Knicks guard Josh Hart (3) reacts after a play against the Philadelphia 76ers during the fourth quarter at Wells Fargo Center. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-Imagn Images" class="size-full wp-image-3120043" height="683" src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Nov-12-2024-Philadelphia-Pennsylvania-USA-New-York-Knicks-guard-Josh-Hart-3-reacts-after-a-play-against-the-Philadelphia-76ers-during-the-fourth-quarter-at-Wells-Fargo-Center.jpg" width="1024"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-3120043">Bill Streicher-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure></blockquote><p>From his hilarious on-court moments to bringing his bit about Brunson having a humongous head to <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-josh-hart-drops-bobblehead-jalen-brunson-take-on-seth-meyers-show">the world of late-night talk shows</a>, Hart seems to have found peace in being himself.</p></figure><p>Hart’s Knicks teammates and coaches seem to have learned throughout his tenure in New York to “Let Hart be Hart.” Yes, this is all a reference to <i>The West Wing</i>. Really, though! The newest Knicks beat reporter for The Athletic, James L. Edwards III, wrote after a blowout road win in Detroit that Hart’s sense of humor <a href="https://x.com/JLEdwardsIII/status/1852564173453947232" rel="noopener">connects the entire locker room</a>:</p><p>‘It appears to be a close locker room and Hart’s humor seems to be the connector of it all.’</p><p>The Knicks have learned since <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-josh-hart-traded-to-new-york-as-blazers-rebuild-begins">trading for Hart</a> that, sometimes, letting Josh be Josh means ignoring comments he makes to the media or allowing him the one wild pass per game he’s asked fans to forgive him for. But the results are always going to be worth it. Hart’s stat line from Tuesday night was legitimately historic.</p><p>For a team that’s gone so aggressively all-in on playing complementary basketball, Hart fits perfectly as the man in the middle of it all. Not on defense, where he certainly does not want to play center, but in the middle of the talent they have on the offensive side of the ball between Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, and the wing duo of Mikal Bridges and OG Anunoby. As Hart <a href="https://x.com/krispursiainen/status/1847346126434767246" rel="noopener">has said himself</a>, somebody has to do the dirty work and he’s in New York to rebound the ball.</p><p>It’s not <i>that</i> simple, though. Hart does much more than just rebound the basketball at an elite level and with demoralizingly intense effort. In the 2023-24 season, he tied his best mark for assists per game in a season by replicating his average from the 2021-22 season of 4.1; in ten games thus far, Hart is averaging 5.6 assists per game this year.</p><p>It’s no coincidence that, if Hart were to keep up at this pace, that number would blow his previous career high out of the water. Sure, he played the second season of his career in Los Angeles with LeBron James and Brandon Ingram in an awkward year of waiting to be traded for Anthony Davis. But since then, Hart has never been on a team – or in a five-man lineup – with as much talent as the Knicks employ.</p><p>Hart isn’t particularly known as a 3-point shooter, but the offseason addition of Towns neutralizes any negative impact Hart may have on the team’s spacing and allows more of Hart’s nimble cuts to the basket to be rewarded with quick passes inside. Hart has also shown to be an important part of what the team is trying to do defensively, with Towns in drop coverage and the three wings (Bridges, Anunoby, Hart) flying around the court plugging leaks wherever they see fit with switches and staggers.</p><p>At 5-5, the Knicks are tied for fourth place in an Eastern Conference that has not been off to the swiftest start to the season. Letting Hart be Hart will certainly be part of the team finding their way to consistent success.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Josh Hart calls out media for ‘crying’ over Knicks’ early hiccups

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/knicks-news-josh-hart-has-perfect-1-word-reaction-to-karl-anthony-towns-eruption');   ga('set', 'title', 'Knicks’ Josh Hart has perfect 1-word reaction to Karl-Anthony Towns’ eruption');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Knicks-news-Josh-Hart-has-perfect-1-word-reaction-to-Karl-Anthony-Towns-eruption.jpg"></figure><h1>Knicks’ Josh Hart has perfect 1-word reaction to Karl-Anthony Towns’ eruption</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-30T20:29:26-07:00">October 30th, 8:29pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-30T20:29:26-07:00">October 30th, 8:29pm</time><address><a href="https://letterboxd.com/splooshpuhrty/films/by/your-rating/">Jedd Pagaduan</a>Jedd Pagaduan is a certified Clippers and Gunners fan, which means he's a very sports-traumatized individual. He now writes about sports instead as a form of therapy.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Much was made about Karl-Anthony Towns’ lack of involvement thus far in the New York Knicks’ offense. Entering the Knicks’ Wednesday night contest against the Miami Heat, Towns had the fewest shot attempts per game among the team’s starters, which is simply inexcusable given how New York brought him in specifically to make the most of his three-level scoring threat. But on Wednesday, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-fans-call-out-tom-thibodeau-over-concerning-karl-anthony-towns-trend">Towns showed why the Knicks</a> needed to give him more touches, as he dominated the Heat en route to a 116-107 win.</p><p>Towns was simply unstoppable despite coming up against one of the best defensive centers in the NBA in Bam Adebayo. In 39 minutes of play, Towns put up 44 points and 13 rebounds, and he shot an incredibly efficient 17-25 from the field — leading the team in shot attempts in the process.</p><p>Given how talented Towns is, it was only a matter of time before he grew comfortable in his new Knicks digs. And with Towns integrating himself more and more seamlessly into the team fabric with each passing day, Josh Hart <a href="https://twitter.com/NBA_NewYork/status/1851812723786461631" rel="noopener">could not be happier</a> to see KAT do well.</p><p>“MEOWWWWW!!!!” Hart wrote as a caption on his Instagram story containing a picture of Towns’ stat line on the night.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Josh Hart on IG: <a href="https://t.co/WkPLg9iq1W">pic.twitter.com/WkPLg9iq1W</a></p><p>— New York Basketball (@NBA_NewYork) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBA_NewYork/status/1851812723786461631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Indeed, the entire Knicks fanbase will be meowing without self-consciousness if Towns continues to play the way he did against the Heat. Sure, he’s not going to make 68 percent of his shots every night, as he loves drifting out to the perimeter (and rightfully so, since he’s one of the greatest shooting big men in NBA history). But his aggressiveness in the paint and on the glass was the most exciting part of his performance on Wednesday night.</p><p>On multiple occasions, Towns was fighting to keep possessions alive for the Knicks, and he was fearless in going up against a swarming Heat defense in the paint. Moreover, he got the upper hand over his former teammate Jimmy Butler on multiple plays, which must have <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-star-karl-anthony-towns-drops-3-word-response-to-jimmy-butler-question">felt sweet for Towns.</a></p><p>Moving forward, the Knicks should rely on Towns more to get them across the finish line, as he proved that he can do a solid enough job in leading the team, provided that he gets the touches.</p><h2><b>Knicks storm back with strong second half in win vs. Heat</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Knicks-center-Karl-Anthony-Towns-32-drives.jpg"></figure><p>In the first half of their win over the Heat, the Knicks seemed to play with a bit of lethargy, especially on defense. They gave the Heat plenty of open looks, with Tyler Herro making them pay on multiple occasions. But in the third quarter, the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/3-heat-takeaways-from-disappointing-loss-vs-knicks">Knicks gained momentum</a> and did not look back, with the team raining fire from deep.</p><p>This set the stage for Towns to dominate proceedings in the fourth quarter. He scored 14 of his 44 points on the night in the final frame, making six of his seven shots in the quarter while playing solid defense against Bam Adebayo. Moreover, he was relentless on the glass, helping keep the Heat at bay.</p><p>The Knicks will look to keep it rolling on Friday when they take on the Detroit Pistons on the road at 7:00 PM E.T.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Knicks’ Josh Hart has perfect 1-word reaction to Karl-Anthony Towns’ eruption

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/knicks-news-josh-hart-leaves-game-vs-cavs-with-injury');   ga('set', 'title', 'Knicks’ Josh Hart leaves game vs. Cavs with injury');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Knicks-news-Josh-Hart-leaves-game-vs.jpg"></figure><h1>Knicks’ Josh Hart leaves game vs. Cavs with injury</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-28T21:07:58-07:00">October 28th, 9:07pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-28T21:07:58-07:00">October 28th, 9:07pm</time><address><a href="https://letterboxd.com/splooshpuhrty/films/by/your-rating/">Jedd Pagaduan</a>Jedd Pagaduan is a certified Clippers and Gunners fan, which means he's a very sports-traumatized individual. He now writes about sports instead as a form of therapy.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>As if the New York Knicks’ 110-104 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night wasn’t already frustrating enough, they also saw Josh Hart <a href="https://x.com/JLEdwardsIII/status/1851078536263504148" rel="noopener">exit that game early</a> due to an ankle injury. Hart played 38 minutes and put up an incredible stat line of 16 points, 13 rebounds, two assists, and three steals before hobbling his way back to the locker room.</p><p>It wasn’t just one play that caused Hart to injure his ankle; in fact, he entered the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-fans-call-out-tom-thibodeau-over-concerning-karl-anthony-towns-trend">Knicks’ game against the Cavs</a> having been designated as questionable to play due to some pain in his right ankle. The 6’4″ forward had his work cut out for him as he faced Cleveland’s supersized frontcourt, but Hart only knows how to play one way and that’s to give it his all.</p><p>However, on one occasion, Hart did dive for a loose ball and took a shot to the ankle. He managed to walk it off en route to logging a heavy workload for the Knicks, but late in the fourth quarter, the 29-year-old forward couldn’t power through anymore and he asked head coach Tom Thibodeau to relieve him from the ballgame, with Miles McBride taking his place.</p><p>This development is the last thing the Knicks need as they look to fit all their new pieces together into one cohesive unit in preparation for a potential title push. It’s unclear if Hart has to miss any time as a result of the wear and tear his ankle has sustained, but it should not come as a surprise to anyone if he needs some time to rest after this latest setback.</p><h2>Knicks’ shoddy depth will be tested amid Josh Hart’s ankle injury</h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Knicks-guard-Josh-Hart-3-reacts.jpg"></figure><p>Losing Josh Hart is already bad in and of itself. But for a <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/how-knicks-karl-anthony-towns-trade-impacts-josh-hart-depth-chart">Knicks team with non-existent depth</a>, losing Hart could be disastrous. No one on the roster can replicate his hustle on the glass and his ability to fill in the gaps for his team.</p><p>If Hart were to miss time, it’s likely that the Knicks insert Miles McBride into the starting lineup, with Mikal Bridges and OG Anunoby both moving up a position. Ariel Hukporti should also get more minutes as a solid backup big man.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Knicks’ Josh Hart leaves game vs. Cavs with injury

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/knicks-news-josh-hart-blunt-take-mikal-bridges-criticisms');   ga('set', 'title', 'Knicks’ Josh Hart delivers blunt take on Mikal Bridges criticisms');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/0-Josh-Hart-delivers-blunt-take-on-Mikal-Bridges-criticisms0.jpg"></figure><h1>Knicks’ Josh Hart delivers blunt take on Mikal Bridges criticisms</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-23T08:05:29-07:00">October 23rd, 8:05am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-23T08:05:29-07:00">October 23rd, 8:05am</time><address><a href="https://haydencilley.wixsite.com/hayden-cilley-s-port">Hayden Cilley</a>Hayden Cilley joined ClutchPoints in August 2024 as a Phoenix Suns and Mercury reporter, as well as an Associate Editor. Hayden graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University while covering events like the 2023 NCAA Men's Final Four, the 2024 Vrbo Fiesta Bowl and the Arizona State men's swim and dive team. He recently covered the Phoenix Mercury for The Next Hoops and PHNX Sports.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The New York Knicks made a splash in the offseason, trading for Mikal Bridges. After the preseason came and went, skeptics were concerned about Bridges’s new jump shot mechanics. However, his teammate, Josh Hart, doesn’t appear phased. Ian Begley of SNY TV <a href="https://x.com/IanBegley/status/1848914963655479365" rel="noopener">shared</a> what Hart thought of the criticisms.</p><p>“Josh Hart calls discussion of Mikal Bridges’ perimeter shot ‘stupid’ and ‘stupidity’, saying Bridges ‘puts the work in’ &amp; ‘he’s going to be good.’ Hart cites that Bridges’ perimeter shooting (38% career). “The talk around it is stupid and we’re not really going to entertain it.”</p><p>Hart makes a valid point about his former collegiate teammate. Bridges <a href="https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/mikal-bridges-1.html" rel="noopener">shot 40% for his career</a> at Villanova and those numbers have translated over nicely to the NBA. He’s shot above 37% from three in his last four seasons. While he’s taken on an expanded scoring role, he has kept his efficiency.</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-mikal-bridges-jump-shot-changes-video-breakdown">Bridges’ jump shot had a concerning video breakdown</a> about how his form changed. He’s releasing the ball way higher instead of his usual eye-level spot. Despite Hart having his teammates’ back, others had the opposite response. <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-fans-flaming-mikal-bridges-new-shooting-form">Fans flamed Bridges’ new form</a> after a tough 132-109 loss to the Boston Celtics. He connected on only two of seven threes, far from the consistent three-ball production many expect.</p><h2><b>Will the Mikal Bridges criticism stop for the Knicks?</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Josh-Hart-delivers-blunt-take-on-Mikal-Bridges-criticisms.jpg"><figcaption>© Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>A rough going in the preseason and in the opening game doesn’t make the Knicks forward’s life any easier. However, there have been funky, yet efficient jump shots in the league. For example, Shawn Marion, and Chandler Parsons are two examples that come to mind. Both of those players shot the ball well despite having an unorthodox form.</p><p>The concerning issue is that Bridges had a nice-looking jump shot before heading to the Knicks. Even when he was with the Brooklyn Nets this previous season, his shot looked the same as it has been. Bridges said that <a href="https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2024/10/22/24275872/mikal-bridges-jump-shot-broken-video-numbers-new-york-knicks-trade" rel="noopener">he tried to eliminate a hitch in his jump shot</a>. He was trying to raise the release point of his jumper, but it’s giving him a two-motion shooting release. Although his 7’1 wingspan doesn’t make his shot look superfluid, the eye test matches the clunky form.</p><p>His 37.2% on 7.2 attempts per game from three is encouraging, so this might not be a big worry. Considering the draft capital the Knicks gave up, any major changes with Bridges could be disastrous for New York. After going all-in during the summer, if Bridges regresses in his shooting, the Knicks could be on the wrong side of history.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Knicks’ Josh Hart delivers blunt take on Mikal Bridges criticisms

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/knicks-news-josh-hart-demands-drug-test-after-blowout-loss-to-celtics');   ga('set', 'title', 'Knicks’ Josh Hart demands ‘drug test’ after blowout loss to Celtics');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Knicks-news-Josh-Hart-demands-drug-test-after-blowout-loss-to-Celtics.jpg"></figure><h1>Knicks’ Josh Hart demands ‘drug test’ after blowout loss to Celtics</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-22T20:49:36-07:00">October 22nd, 8:49pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-22T20:49:36-07:00">October 22nd, 8:49pm</time><address><a>Christopher Smith</a>Christopher Smith is an associate editor covering a variety of sports with a beat focus on the Chicago Sky for ClutchPoints. The Aurora, Illinois native earned a degree in philosophy from Creighton University, where he also competed as a Division 1 Cross Country runner.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The New York Knicks went through massive changes during the 2024 offseason. In addition to <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nets-finalize-trade-haul-mikal-bridges-knicks-blockbuster-deal">trading for former Brooklyn Nets forward Mikal Bridges</a>, New York acquired Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns. The Knicks opened their season against the Boston Celtics Tuesday night, but the result did not sit well with Josh Hart or the fans.</p><p>New York took a tough 132-109 loss to Boston after multiple standout performances from the home team. As a result, Josh Hart <a href="https://x.com/JLEdwardsIII/status/1848911365722759245" rel="noopener">gave this comical demand</a> for Celtics players after the game:</p><p>“The NBA needs to drug test them dudes. I ain’t ever seen anything like that,” Hart jokingly said, per James L. Edwards of The Athletic.</p><p>Jayson Tatum led the Celtics’ relentless attack on the Knicks with a game-high 37 points, 10 assists, and four rebounds. He received strong support from Derrick White, Jaylen Brown, and Jrue Holiday, who chipped in 24, 23, and 18 points respectively.</p><p>The Knicks struggled to keep up. But on the bright side, Jalen Brunson scored 22 points, and Miles McBride matched Brunson’s scoring mark while coming off the bench. Hart finished the game with 12 points, four rebounds, and three assists.</p><p>One of the biggest talking points among fans on Tuesday was <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-mikal-bridges-jump-shot-changes-video-breakdown">Mikal Bridges’ jump shot</a>. Since joining the Knicks, Bridges appears to have changed his form and developed a more pronounced hitch in his shot. He struggled to get things going early against the Celtics but was able to end the matchup with 16 points.</p><p>Bridges’ combination of defense and scoring should help take New York to the next level. Things did not go as planned in the season opener, but Bridges, Josh Hart, and the rest of the Knicks have time to make adjustments and bounce back.</p><p>The Celtics likely will not be losing players to drug tests anytime soon, so Hart and his teammates must step up and find a way to beat the reigning NBA champions and the rest of the league’s competition in later matchups.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Knicks’ Josh Hart demands ‘drug test’ after blowout loss to Celtics

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/knicks-news-josh-hart-has-concerning-admission-after-preseason-loss-to-wizards');   ga('set', 'title', 'Knicks’ Josh Hart has concerning admission after preseason loss to Wizards');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Josh-Harts-concerning-admission-after-preseason-loss-to-Wizards.jpg"></figure><h1>Knicks’ Josh Hart has concerning admission after preseason loss to Wizards</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-19T08:00:28-07:00">October 19th, 8:00am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-19T08:00:28-07:00">October 19th, 8:00am</time><address><a>Zachary Weinberger</a>Zachary Weinberger joined ClutchPoints in October 2023 as a Miami Heat reporter as well as an Associate Editor. He graduated from Florida Atlantic University in 2022 after covering the school's athletic programs since his freshman year at the FAU University Press, where he was a Sports Editor and Editor-in-Chief. He then covered FAU Sports for The Palm Beach Post.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>As the<a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-spike-lee-puts-celtics-notice"> New York Knicks opener against the Boston Celtics</a> is right around the corner, there is a possibility that star Josh Hart believes it’s coming at a bad time. With the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-karl-anthony-towns-recalls-immediate-reaction-trade">Knicks still building chemistry with new additions like Karl-Anthony Towns</a>, they showed they might need more work as they lost to the Washington Wizards in the preseason finale, 118-117.</p><h2><b>Knicks’ Josh Hart has a candid concern on his team </b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Josh-Hart-on-Oct.-9-2024.jpg"><figcaption>Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Hart was was candid when speaking about the struggles of the team as Towns and other new acquisition Mikal Bridges are on shooting slumps, Precious Achiuwa got hurt Friday, and Landry Shamet still deals with an injury. Still, Hart would go through the scenarios needed for them to be better, but said he was <a href="https://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/knicks/knicks-ic3c0baf" rel="noopener">“lost”</a> according to Newsday.</p><p>“I’m lost. I have no idea,” Hart said. “There’s a couple days we have until Boston. So whether that’s trying to get a rhythm with that starting unit or we give somebody else a look and my role changes and comes off the bench and go with that unit. So just trying to figure out right now; I pretty much have no idea. But we’ll see what happens in Boston.’’</p><p>There is no doubt that Hart is an integral piece to the Knicks as while he doesn’t score as much as Brunson or as expected from Towns and Bridges, he is crucial to the team’s defense and rebounding ability. He also has the makings of New York’s leader as one of the possibilities he did mention was being relegated to the bench, but he talks about finding the best way for everybody to showcase their strengths.</p><p>“[Jalen Brunson] and KAT’s our engine,” Hart said. “I feel like we played pretty well this preseason. So I’m cool with that. I just think we can just figure out a way where we can be our best selves or whatever — roles or minutes.”</p><h2><b>Knicks hoping to be fully ready by opener</b></h2><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-stunning-mikal-bridges-nets-rockets-trade">Bridges was acquired by the Knicks in a blockbuster trade</a> that reunited him with his Villanova teammates, despite the team later trading Donte DiVincenzo for Towns. He has the makings of being significant for New York, but he’s currently not in rhythm as he missed all 10 of his shots from beyond the arch Friday, which he sees the light ahead of the tunnel as well as head coach Tom Thibodeau.</p><p>“Get them out now,” Bridges said. “Get the misses out now. And get ready for the 82-game season.”</p><p>“Sometimes you’re going to make, sometimes you’re going to miss,” Thibodeau said. “Just take the right ones.”</p><p>At any rate, the Knicks made the NBA-shattering moves for a reason as they believe they can contend in the Eastern Conference with the likes of the Boston Celtics and even win their first championship since 1973. Last season, New York was the second seed until they were eliminated by the Indiana Pacers in seven games in the conference semi finals.</p><p>With the preseason now behind them, fans will get their first look at the new roster in a meaningful game as they face the Celtics on Tuesday, Oct. 22. After hearing Hart, it will be interesting for fans to see if the concerns are valid or just a modest way to express their need for improvement.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Knicks’ Josh Hart has concerning admission after preseason loss to Wizards

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/josh-hart-net-worth');   ga('set', 'title', 'Josh Hart’s net worth in 2024');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Josh-Harts-net-worth-in-2024.jpg"></figure><h1>Josh Hart’s net worth in 2024</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-14T10:09:51-07:00">October 14th, 10:09am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-14T10:09:51-07:00">October 14th, 10:09am</time><address><a href="https://www.facebook.com/spencersee10" rel="facebook">Spencer See</a>Spencer See is a part-time writer at ClutchPoints focusing on the NBA, evergreen content and celebrity lifestyle. He is also a lifelong fan of LeBron James. In his free time, he either goes fishing or watches basketball.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Editorials</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Josh Hart’s net worth in 2024 is $12 million. Hart is a small forward who currently plays for the New York Knicks. Here’s a closer look at Josh Hart’s net worth in 2024.</p><h2><b>What is Josh Hart’s net worth in 2024?: $12 million (estimate)</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Josh-Hart-dunks.jpg"><figcaption>Kyle Terada-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Josh Hart’s net worth in 2024 <a href="https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/josh-hart-net-worth" rel="noopener">is $12 million</a>. This is according to reputable outlets such as Sportskeeda.</p><p>Josh Hart was born on March 6, 1995, in Silver Spring, Maryland. He originally attended Wheaton High School before transferring to Sidney Friends School. During his senior year, Hart averaged 24.3 points, 13.4 rebounds and 2.8 steals per game while leading Sidney Friends to a solid 22-9 record, according to <a href="https://www.nba.com/player/1628404/josh-hart/rotowire" rel="noopener">sources</a>.</p><p>Coming out of high school, Hart was a four-star prospect. He ranked first in his state and 18th in his position, according to <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/142266/josh-hart" rel="noopener">ESPN</a>. As a highly ranked prospect, Hart received offers from various college basketball programs, including Rutgers, Penn State, and Villanova. The 6’4 guard eventually opted to attend Villanova.</p><p>Hart played four seasons with Villanova basketball. In four seasons with the Wildcats, Hart averaged 13.2 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 1.8 assists per game while shooting 51% from the field overall. His college career was highlighted by an NCAA championship in 2016 when Villanova successfully defeated North Carolina 77-74 in the National Championship Game.</p><p>Aside from an NCAA championship, Hart finished his college career with Big East Player of the Year honors, the Robert V. Geasey Trophy, Big East Co-Defensive Player of the Year, the Julius Erving Award, Big East Sixth Man of the Year, and Consensus first team All-American.</p><p>In addition to this, he was also a two-time Big East Tournament MOP and two-time First Team All-Big East member.</p><h2><b>Josh Hart is drafted, traded to the Lakers</b></h2><p>After spending four years with Villanova, Hart eventually made the jump to the professional ranks by officially declaring for the 2017 NBA Draft. On draft night, the Utah Jazz selected Hart in the first round with the 30th overall pick.</p><p>However, Hart never suited up for the Jazz. They eventually shipped him to the Los Angeles Lakers with Thomas Bryant in return for Tony Bradley. Shortly after, Hart agreed to a four-year rookie deal worth $8.5 million with the Purple and Gold. In his rookie season, Hart averaged 7.9 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 1.3 assists per game while shooting 47% from the field overall.</p><p>A season later, Hart’s numbers roughly remained the same. He tallied 7.8 points, 3.7 rebounds, and 1.4 assists per outing on 41% shooting from the floor.</p><p>In his rookie season, Hart juggled his time in the NBA while also seeing action for the South Bay Lakers. The South Bay Lakers are the Los Angeles Lakers’ affiliate team in the NBA G-League. In two games, Hart put up 18.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 2.0 assists per game while making 42% of his shots.</p><h2><b>Josh Hart is traded to the Pelicans</b></h2><p>After two seasons in LA, the Lakers traded Hart to the New Orleans Pelicans as part of a blockbuster three-team trade headlined by All-Star center Anthony Davis. In a Pelicans uniform, Hart averaged 10.7 points, 7.3 rebounds, and 2.5 assists per game on 45% shooting from the floor.</p><p>Prior to the 2021-2022 season, Hart signed a three-year contract extension with the Pelicans worth $38 million, according to a <a href="https://frontofficesports.com/josh-hart-rare-contract-villanova-knicks/#:~:text=Hart%20and%20the%20Pelicans%20wound,deadline%20of%20June%2025%2C%202022." rel="noopener">report</a> by Front Office Sports. In his final games as a Pelican, the former Villanova Wildcat put up 13.4 points, 7.8 rebounds, and 4.1 assists per game while shooting 51% from the field.</p><h2><b>Josh Hart is traded to the Trail Blazers</b></h2><p>In the middle of the 2021-2022 season, the Pelicans traded Hart to the Portland Trail Blazers in a multiplayer deal led by C.J. McCollum. In the remaining games of the season, Hart tallied a career-high 19.9 points to go along with 5.4 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game while making 50% of his shots.</p><h2><b>Josh Hart is traded to the Knicks</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Josh-Hart-dribbles.jpg"><figcaption>Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>After playing only 64 games across two seasons with Portland, the Blazers traded Hart as part of a four-team trade involving the New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers, and Charlotte Hornets. The former NCAA champion landed in New York, reuniting him with former college teammates Jalen Brunson and Donte DiVincenzo.</p><p>In the remaining games of the 2022-2023 season, Hart registered 10.2 points, 7.0 rebounds, and 3.6 assists per game while shooting 59% overall.</p><p>After a respectable season, the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-josh-hart-finalizing-four-year-81-million-contract-extension">Knicks rewarded Hart</a> with a four-year contract extension worth $81 million, according to <a href="https://www.nba.com/news/knicks-josh-hart-extension-2023" rel="noopener">reports</a>. After that, Hart tallied 9.4 points, 8.3 rebounds, and 4.1 assists per game on 43% shooting.</p><p>Hart was a key player for the Knicks in the 2024 NBA Playoffs. He helped the Knicks make the postseason for the second-straight season.</p><p>In the postseason, he averaged 14.5 points, 11.5 rebounds, and 4.5 assists per game on 44% shooting. Hart tied the NBA record for most 48-minute games played in the playoffs with four. Unfortunately, the Indiana Pacers eliminated the Knicks in seven games.</p><p>Hart has shown his willingness to win games, making him a popular player in the NBA. Thanks to his rise, it isn’t surprising that a brand like Turtle Beach has partnered up with the Knicks player, as per <a href="https://www.osdbsports.com/nba/players/josh-hart-2/endorsements" rel="noopener">sources</a>.</p><h2><b>Josh Hart representing Team USA internationally</b></h2><p>While Hart has been busy for the Knicks, Hart also represented Team USA internationally. The former NCAA champion answered the call of duty for the 2023 FIBA World Cup. Here, he averaged 5.1 points, 5.3 rebounds, and 1.9 assists on 68% shooting.</p><p>For playing in the 2023 FIBA World Cup, Team USA received a $53,000 bonus. Team USA also advanced to the Top 16, raking in an additional $107,000. They made it all the way to the bronze-medal game but fell to Canada in overtime to finish in fourth place. Although Team USA went home empty handed, the team still got paid an additional $1.2 million, according to <a href="https://www.sportingnews.com/in/nba/news/fiba-basketball-world-cup-2023-prize-money/815f902d187159cdb638d653" rel="noopener">reports</a>.</p><p>Nevertheless, were you at all stunned by Josh Hart’s net worth in 2024?</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

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He started his career as a credentialed media member writing about the Boston Celtics for WEEI.com in Boston, where he grew into a local on-camera NBA reporter and podcast host for CLNS Media. Alongside the Celtics radio broadcaster and two-time NBA champion Cedric Maxwell, Josue is the co-host of the Cedric Maxwell podcast.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The New York Knicks pulled the trigger on arguably the most significant offseason blockbuster trade, sending forward <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba-news-karl-anthony-towns-julius-randle-trade-between-timberwolves-knicks-sends-shockwaves">Julius Randle to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Karl-Anthony Towns</a>. The move sent shockwaves across the league as the Knicks and Timberwolves are adapting to their respective new big man amidst the NBA preseason, including former teammate Josh Hart. Donte DiVincenzo, Hart’s longtime friend and former Villanova teammate in college, was part of the three-team swap from the Knicks.</p><p>When the Brooklyn Nets traded Mikal Bridges to the Knicks last season, it thrilled Villanova basketball fans to see members of the 2018 NCAA Men’s basketball champion Villanova Wildcats’ Jalen Brunson, Hart, DiVincenzo, and Bridges all on one team. By the end of the season, they were appropriately dubbed the “Nova Knicks.”</p><p>Recently, Hart discussed <a href="https://x.com/JLEdwardsIII/status/1844794209720525021" rel="noopener">the day he found out</a> DiVincenzo was heading to Minnesota as part of the three-team blockbuster swap, per The Athletic’s James L. Edwards III.</p><p>“It’s a tough one. It’s part of the business. I get it. But I miss my dog,” Hart said. “I think he should be received with cheers and ovation for everything he did last year.”</p><p>DiVincenzo averaged a career-best 15.5 points and shot at a 40.1% clip from deep, which marked the first time he’s connected on 40% of his three-point attempts in one season, 3.7 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game in his lone season with the Knicks. He’ll return to Madison Square Garden for the first time on Sunday.</p><h2><b>Knicks’ latest Mitchell Robinson injury update</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Knicks-center-Karl-Anthony-Towns-1.jpg"><figcaption>Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Starting center <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/knicks-news-stephen-a-smith-disbelief-latest-mitchell-robinson-injury-update">Mitchell Robinson is expected to miss the rest of 2024</a>, rehabbing from two ankle procedures that ended his season 2023-24. Josh Hart watched the Knicks trade Donte DiVincenzo and a future first-round pick, which were ultimately forced into New York’s trade offer after the Minnesota Timberwolves declined a package centered around Randle and starting center Mitchell Robinson <a href="https://twitter.com/FirstTake/status/1844399804937281944" rel="noopener">in June</a>, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania.</p><p>“The Knicks, they needed a five, and a lot of that is because Mitchell Robinson, Stephen, I don’t want to break your heart so early, but I’m told he will be out through the remainder of this calendar year 2024,” Charania said. “He will wait for his season debut in January.</p><p>“It might be bad news on the front end, but he is aiming to make his return. He had two ankle surgeries last season, and it is imperative for the Knicks for Mitchell Robinson for him to come back in peak form and really take his time from these injuries. And they’re hopeful he’s going to come back. Tom Thibodeau loves Mitchell Robinson defensively.”</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ShamsCharania</a> revealed that Mitchell Robinson will miss the remainder of the calendar year while recovering from foot surgery.<a href="https://twitter.com/stephenasmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@stephenasmith</a> couldn't believe it 😭 <a href="https://t.co/Mvy7ZpG7hf">pic.twitter.com/Mvy7ZpG7hf</a></p><p>— First Take (@FirstTake) <a href="https://twitter.com/FirstTake/status/1844399804937281944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>After a 2-0 start to their preseason slate, DiVincenzo and the Knicks will host Randle and the Timberwolves at Madison Square Garden this Sunday.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

2024-25 SEASON STATS
PTS	REB	AST	BLK	STL
14.0	8.0	5.4	0.4	1.4

2024-25 SEASON STATS
PTS	REB	AST	BLK	STL
14.0	8.0	5.4	0.4	1.4

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