Josh Hart’s wife Shannon was straight to the point with her one-word reaction to a video that showed the Knicks star and Celtics Jaylen Brown getting tangled up in the wrong place during Game 5 of their Eastern Conference semifinals series on Wednesday.
Brown appeared to grab Hart’s crotch while trying to maneuver around a pick during the second half at TD Garden.
“Weird,” Shannon wrote on X, including a video of moment in slow motion.
Others agreed in the comments and some joked, “Get him Shannon!!!”
“Very strange,” one person wrote.
“Fight for ya man sis,” another added.
Hart, who appeared to signal to the a referee that he had an issue with the contact, and Brown then got into a shoving match — and were both assessed technicals when the game was tied at 59-59 early in the third quarter.
That followed a bloody scene when Hart was fouled and hit near his left eyebrow by Celtics’ Luke Kornet, who was defending in the paint under Boston’s basket late in the first quarter.
Hart’s eyebrow looked like it had split and was gushing blood.
He was tended to on the sidelines and changed his bloodied uniform before he returned and made his ensuing two free throws.
He appeared to have gotten stitches when he entered the second half with the game tied at 59-59.
The Knicks were outscored 32-17 in the third quarter en route to a losing effort, 127-102, cutting their series lead to 3-2.
Hart had a team-best 24 points and was 7-for-15 from the field.
He also finished with seven rebounds and two assists.
The series shifts back to Madison Square Garden for Game 6 on Friday at 8 p.m. ET.
