{"id":238038,"date":"2025-10-24T23:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238038\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T23:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:48:07","slug":"josh-hart-will-make-season-debut-for-new-york-knicks-friday-after-preseason-back-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238038\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hart will make season debut for New York Knicks Friday after preseason back injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Josh Hart will play for the New York Knicks on Friday night against Boston, his first action since injuring his lower back in the preseason opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hart was hurt Oct. 2 in Abu Dhabi, when he grabbed a defensive rebound early in the second quarter and was dribbling the ball upcourt when he slipped and fell in front of the 76ers bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hart said Friday he didn\u2019t know what caused the injury, because it came on a normal play. He has practiced some since, though not with any 5-on-5 scrimmaging. He was listed as out with lumbar spasms in the season-opening victory over Cleveland on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The swingman will come off the bench, with guard Deuce McBride being inserted into a three-guard lineup with center Mitchell Robinson (left ankle) still unavailable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hart wasn\u2019t 100% even before the back injury. He underwent a procedure on his right ring finger in July after hurting it during the playoffs and aggravated the injury shortly before training camp, saying he expected to wear a splint this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Josh Hart will play for the New York Knicks on Friday night against Boston,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-238038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}