Standout Knicks Player Reveals Rare Injury After Win
Josh Hart’s play was so good Sunday night the New York Knicks couldn’t even tell he was dealing with an injury.
The Knicks super sub revealed he is dealing with a nerve issue in his hand that has affected his ability to feel the ball after their 128-116 win over the Chicago Bulls at Madison Square Garden.
Hart had 14 points, nine rebounds and three assists while helping New York (3-3) snap a three-game losing skid while also setting a new single-game season high in points.
Josh Hart Is Having A Nerve Issue In His Hand
Hart did not appear to struggle Sunday, but he has not looked himself over the Knicks’ first five games. Hart, who started 77 games for the Knicks in 2024-25 plus 14 more in the playoffs, has exclusively come off the bench for first-year Knicks coach Mike Brown and averaged just three points and seven rebounds in 23 minutes over New York’s 2-3 start.
Hart hinted at a physical ailment but declined to address his hand injury at first during his postgame media availability.
“I’m going through some adversity myself just physically,” Hart said. “I ain’t gonna talk too much about it. It is what it is.”
But then when pressed, Hart finally opened up, calling his affliction nerve damage in his hand.
“My nerve ending hasn’t really gotten back to what it was before,” Hart said. “There’s a little bit of tingling, a little bit of numbness in part of my hand. Hopefully at some point I’ll get that nerve back, hopefully sooner rather than later, but right now it’s just a process.”
Josh Hart’s Nerve Injury Was News To Knicks Coach Mike Brown
Knicks captain Jalen Brunson was asked what he saw from Hart on Sunday and offered a candid answer.
“We saw Josh Hart,” Brunson said. “The one we know and love.”
Yet, when asked about Hart’s ongoing struggles with nerve damage, Brown seemed caught off guard.
“It’s news to me,” Brown said.
That it is Hart, one of the Knicks’ selfless and emotional leaders who does it all — he can score, rebound, assist, provide energy and more — could make things dicey for the Knicks. That is especially true since New York remained relatively healthy during its 51-31 season and run to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2024-25.
But Hart looked no worse for the wear Sunday, and Brunson wasn’t the only teammate able to marvel at his ability to persevere against Chicago, which entered play 5-0 and had just rolled the Knicks 135-125 on Friday night at United Center.
“A lot of energy,” Knicks forward Karl-Anthony Towns said when asked what he saw from Hart on Sunday. “Getting those rebounds, making those tough, 50-50 plays and capitalizing on those opportunities. So shout out to Josh.”
So after watching Hart fill the stat sheet, while helping the Knicks bench score a season-high 46 points, Brown got excited at the prospect of having Hart at full strength at some point this year.
“He had 14 [points] and nine [rebounds],” Brown said. “So when he’s healthy, oh my gosh, look out.”
Walking Dead's Norman Reedus reflects on the end of beloved spin-off Daryl Dixon: "It's different"
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon may have only aired its third season this autumn, but the end is already on the horizon. The fourth and final chapter of the beloved spin-off is currently being filmed in Spain, as Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) continue their arduous journey home.
The eight-episode instalment will mark the end of the pair's latest adventure, which saw them battling both zombies and humans across Europe. But will it be the last we see of the iconic characters?
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Reedus reflected on the show's imminent end and addressed whether season four will play out the way he expected.
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"You know, it's different. This show has always coincided with my life a bit. With season four, Daryl really goes inside [himself], and so, I'm inside, too," he shared.
"I'm in my head a lot, especially for the episode we're filming now. It's filling my head with the future, the past and the present of this character."
The actor confirmed that the cast is currently shooting episode six of the super-sized season, adding: "We're getting really close." Though he believes "there's always more story you can tell", Reedus assured fans that the spin-off is "wrapping up in a perfect way".
"It's answering all of these reasons why and what all of it has meant, and what have we done to get here? What are the mistakes we made to get here? And what can we do to have a better life for ourselves?
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"So it's all very trippy, what we're working on right now. There's a lot of internal fact-checking that I'm doing, and that the character is doing, and watching things happen around me that I never expected."
The star shared that Daryl's current story was developed in an natural way, with no concrete conclusion planned for the character. He explained that the spin-off progressed "organically" across all four seasons.
"Someone asked me recently, when I was doing season one, would I have thought about what I was doing in season four? And we just didn't do it that way. There's no season in the future already written when we're working on the first. It's created organically as we go along," he said.
