Karl-Anthony Cities and Josh Hart each participated in observe on Sunday, however they’re listed as questionable for the Knicks’ MLK Day matinee towards the Hawks.
Cities has missed the final two video games with a proper thumb downside and Hart survived what appeared like a painful harm to his left shoulder suffered within the third quarter of Friday’s dwelling loss to the Timberwolves.
The Knicks formally listed his harm as cervical/neck compression.
“They participated in observe and we’ll see the place they’re tomorrow,” Tom Thibodeau mentioned Sunday. “They have been superb.”
Jalen Brunson mentioned his two teammates “appeared incredible” in observe, joking that they have been each “nice males.”
Requested about Hart, his longtime teammate with Villanova and the Knicks, Brunson mentioned, “With the ability to play by means of ache is strictly what [Hart] is, and it has at all times been like that.
“Usually he is not a kind of guys who’s going to be down for lengthy. If he can go, he goes,” Thibodeau added of Hart. “He has a tricky thoughts, and so it was good to see him come again and see him on the market in the present day.” We’ll see how he responds [Monday].”
In keeping with Brunson, enjoying on the MLK Day vacation “means lots” and he known as it “a privilege to play this sport on this league.”
“It’s fairly a privilege to play on days like this. You play on Christmas Day, MLK Day, it means lots and particularly what he stood for and what he believed in. I feel most significantly, we proceed to speak about him and reward him for the issues that he is completed and simply be grateful as a result of plenty of us would not be within the place that we’re in.
Thibodeau: “I feel it is an essential day not just for our league, but in addition for our nation. I feel the whole lot that Martin Luther King stood for has stood the check of time. And it was about equality for all, not for any specific group. It was for everybody, and it is actually robust and highly effective. And I feel that represents our league.
Zaccharie Risacher (adductor pressure) and Larry Nance Jr. (hand) are out for the Hawks. Trae Younger (Achilles) and Jalen Johnson (shoulder) are possible.
