“We put ourselves in this position,” Hart said Thursday morning at Knicks shootaround ahead of Game 5. “This series could easily have been 2-2 right now, [or] 3-1 us. A couple of mistakes that we made put us in this position.” There was the epic choke in Game 1, when the Knicks led by 14 with 2:45 left in the fourth quarter.

Rumors had Hart being benched after Game 2. Hart was on the bench at the start of Game 3, but played 34 crucial minutes in the comeback win.

The New York Knicks' regularly scheduled Josh Hart antics were fashionably late and undeniably clutch in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Hart's de facto demotion from the Knicks' starting lineup,