Overview
- The Knicks cleared Hart to play roughly 30 minutes before tipoff after full-contact work and a pregame warmup test turned his game-time designation into a go.
- Hart suffered lumbar spasms during the Oct. 2 Abu Dhabi preseason game and missed the rest of preseason as well as the season opener.
- He is expected to come off the bench as a sixth man with a monitored workload as the staff evaluates roles under the new approach.
- Miles “Deuce” McBride earned minutes with the starting unit in the opener, providing coverage as Hart ramps back up.
- With Mitchell Robinson still out and Karl-Anthony Towns managing a quad strain, Brown leaned on depth by using 11 players in the first half of the opener.