Download the NBA App<\/a><\/p>\nGREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 New York Knicks forward Josh Hart said Tuesday he recently aggravated a finger injury and expects to wear a splint this season.<\/p>\n
Hart underwent a procedure on his right ring finger in July after sustaining the injury during the playoffs. After taking time off following that, he said he hurt the finger again as he was preparing for training camp that begins Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo probably just rock out with a split this season and try to fix it again next summer,\u201d Hart said.<\/p>\n
Hart said he hated wearing anything on his hands, but wanted to delay surgery so he could be on the court. He acknowledged he might have to consider it if the splint affected his play.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think about it too much. I just try to go out there and play how I play and if I can\u2019t play how I play and be aggressive and kind of have that toughness mentality that I normally play with, then I\u2019ve got to figure out a different path,\u201d Hart said, adding that he realized the initial injury was worse that he thought.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut right now the full expectation is just to go out there and hoop this season and help this team be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hart set a franchise record last season with nine triple-doubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Hart speaks on being versatile and sacrificing for team success at Knicks Media Day. \u2022\u00a0Download the NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,28626,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-34114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-josh-hart","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}