The Knicks again will be a bit shorthanded for their clash against the Nets on Friday.
Josh Hart is out, with the Knicks listing his ailment as patella femoral syndrome in his right knee.
That’s notably different from when he missed two games in Utah and Indiana last week, which was due to left knee soreness.
Hart had his best offensive game of the season Tuesday when he erupted for a season-high 33 points in a rout of the Pacers at MSG.
But the Knicks will be getting Jalen Brunson back.
He missed Tuesday’s game for right ankle management and a neck strain. Brunson practiced fully Thursday.
The Knicks carry a 13-game winning streak against the Nets into Friday’s game.
Brunson had no interest in talking about it.
“No comment,” Brunson said after practice Thursday. “We’re gonna focus on winning the game then moving on from there. I don’t care about the streak.”
The last time the teams met, the Knicks won by 54 points at Madison Square Garden — their biggest-ever margin of victory.
It came during their low point of the year, after they had lost nine of 11 games, and helped reignite their season.
“You have to be ready to go,” Brunson said. “Short-term memory. No matter what the result is, you gotta come ready to play next time you play, next game, whatever it is. We gotta look past it, we gotta look forward. It’s 0-0, new game.”
Jose Alvarado is featured in a new AT&T commercial alongside Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, Patrick Ewing and John Starks. It’s the first commercial for Alvarado.
“That’s what New York can do for you: get you in commercials,” Alvarado said. “My agent called me and said, ‘We’ve got a special thing, do you want to be in a commercial?’ I said ‘Yeah,’ I didn’t know who was going to be in the commercial at first. But the commercial came out pretty dope.”
