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New York Knicks Guard Josh Hart opened early in the team’s Game 5 defeat on Wednesday night.
Hart was injured late in the first quarter and had to leave the game. He had an elbow in his face before cutting his eyes. He needed stitching to close the gouache.
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New York Knicks Guard Josh Hart, #3, is bloody after seeing his elbow in the first half in the fifth round of the second round of the 2025 NBA playoffs against the Boston Celtics at Boston’s TD Garden on May 14, 2025. (Bob DeChiara-Imagn Images)
Still, Hart led the Knicks with 24 points in a lost effort.
“Eyes Peachy,” Hart told reporters following the 127-105 defeat. New York Post.
It was far from the only intense incident of the night. Hart and Jalen Brown were tied up in the third quarter and had to separate. After Brown got caught up in the Heart screen, the two entered a push contest.
“There were only two people who were very competitive,” Hart said. “He’s a passionate and competitive player. We were tied up at halftime. He’s trying to give their team sparks and momentum.
New York Knicks guard Josh Hart, #3 during the fifth game of the second round of the 2025 NBA playoffs against the Boston Celtics, which took place at TD Garden in Boston on May 14, 2025. (Bob DeChiara-Imagn Images)
Hart and Brown looked like the cooler head would win after the game.
Brown has 26 points and 12 assists, stepping up in a big way to pull within one game that ties the series together. He had to bear the brunt of his responsibility to bring Boston back to the series after Jason Tatum’s devastating injury.
“We did what we needed to do to get it back to New York,” said Celtics head coach Joe Matzla. “You can’t choose the tests you have, you choose how you respond to them.”
New York Knicks Guard Josh Hart, #3 drives to the basket in the second half of Game 5 of the 2nd round playoff series of NBA basketball on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at Boston Celtics Center Luke Cornett, #40, Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Derrick White LED Boston With 34 points, I nailed seven 3-pointers.
“It’s hard to lose JT,” White said. “But we have a lot of very competitive people. We didn’t want to end the season tonight.”
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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