{"id":358291,"date":"2025-12-20T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358291\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T20:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:03:10","slug":"knicks-josh-hart-comments-on-the-teams-loaded-schedule-following-nba-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358291\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks\u2019 Josh Hart comments on the team\u2019s loaded schedule following NBA Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/new-york-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a>\u2019 recent schedule hasn\u2019t done them any favors, and they paid the price for it on Friday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/philadelphia-76ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After winning the NBA Cup against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> on Tuesday, the Knicks had no time to celebrate their victory. Just two days later, they\u00a0 barely squeaked out a victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/indiana-pacers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> on Thursday, and then were beaten 116-107 by the 76ers the following day, looking clearly fatigued being that they were playing in their third game in four days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead of their next game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/miami-heat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Heat<\/a> on Sunday, forward Josh Hart was asked about the Knicks\u2019 tough schedule of late.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe weren&#8217;t really looking too far ahead, so we didn&#8217;t realize how challenging going right into a back-to-back and then an earlier game on Sunday,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sny_knicks\/status\/2002222265795002874?s=46&amp;t=SF-knYTy_vdKy3mmfTQuvQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hart<\/a> said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hart sat out for the Knicks\u2019 matchup with the Pacers on Thursday, but looked sluggish against the 76ers, scoring just five points, and snagging 10 rebounds on 2-7 shooting in 34 minutes of action.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a tired effort against the 76ers, the Knicks will look to right the ship against the Heat on Sunday. With a day off in between, the Knicks should be well-rested for a pivotal matchup with another Eastern Conference rival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks\u2019 recent schedule hasn\u2019t done them any favors, and they paid the price for it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-358291","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\/358291","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=358291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}