The Knicks signed Clarkson in free agency to be a central part of a revamped bench unit they envisioned going from a weakness to a newfound strength. <\/p>\n
He has long been known as a spark plug and microwave scorer who will not hesitate to look for his shot \u2014 something the Knicks did not have much of off the bench last year. He is a particularly aggressive 3-point shooter, something coach Mike Brown values highly in his system.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was a rough start to the year for Clarkson, but he seemed to grow comfortable in his new surroundings during the back-to-back home wins over the Bulls and Wizards. He scored 15 points both nights on a combined 11-for-19 shooting from the field and 5-for-11 shooting from 3-point range.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Knicks guard Jordan Clarkson reacts after hitting a 3-point shot against the Bulls. JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n
Given how shot happy he is, there will surely be occasional ugly showings. But the Knicks are banking on those past two games being more of the norm, and something they can rely on. Already, it\u2019s become infectious for his teammates \u2014 and the MSG crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels great,\u201d Clarkson said. \u201cThe fans, the atmosphere, just playing here, feeling that love here, it\u2019s been amazing. Just want to keep continuing to buy into the system, make shots when I\u2019m open, play defense, rebound and keep continuing to play a role.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brown pointed to himself and his rotations for why Clarkson struggled during the first few games of the season. The last two games, Brown said, he did a better job of having Clarkson and others know when they were going to play and with whom on the court.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Knicks guard Jordan Clarkson puts up a 3-point shot during the second quarter.
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As Brown gets more and more used to his roster, he hopes that should only keep improving.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s definitely something that helps the guys,\u201d Clarkson said. \u201cGuys being in and out the lineup; Josh, Mitch [Robinson] being in and out, those minutes being played here and there. You\u2019ve got so many different combinations. We\u2019re just trying to get comfortable with playing alongside each other and finding our spots and doing what we do defensively. But I think we\u2019re all buying in and trying to figure this thing out.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the first time this year, the Knicks have a clean injury report.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But one of the league\u2019s premier scorers might be returning to face them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Timberwolves superstar Anthony Edwards (right hamstring strain) was upgraded to questionable for the team\u2019s game against the Knicks Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden. Edwards missed Minnesota\u2019s past four games with the injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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He was originally expected to miss about two weeks. Wednesday\u2019s game is only about a week since he sustained the injury. <\/p>\n
Those four games he missed are already the most he\u2019s been out since the 2021-22 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
For their own part, the Knicks will have Robinson and Hart available. Robinson missed the team\u2019s first four games for what the team called left ankle injury management and also did not play the second leg of their back-to-back in a win over the Wizards at home on Monday. That he is not on the injury report at all is an encouraging step forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Hart has battled through multiple injuries this year. He missed the first game of the year due to lower back spasms and was on the injury report earlier this week with a left ankle sprain. <\/p>\n
And on Sunday, he revealed that he is dealing with nerve damage in his shooting hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Hart smiled, then broke a rule he\u2019s been trying to set for himself.\u00a0 How does he describe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,19696,87780,590,1666,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-263448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-jordan-clarkson","11":"tag-josh-hart","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}