INDIANAPOLIS — Josh Hart is sitting on the bench, holding a towel over his head with one hand and a heating pad wrapped in a towel over his abdomen with the other.
The only sight worse than the final score of the Knicks’ 116-103 loss to the Indiana Pacers on Friday — a loss forcing a win-or-go-home Game 7 at Madison Square Garden on Sunday — is the increasing number of names piling on the team’s injury report.
Hart became the latest addition after suffering what the team called abdominal soreness in the first quarter on Friday.
He tried to box-out Pacers All-Star Pascal Siakam on a missed free throw with less than two minutes left in the first quarter, an action he’s done time and time again as one of the league’s premier rebounders at any height, but after Siakam fell on the floor to recover the ball, Hart grabbed at his abdomen, walked away from the play, then hunched over in pain.
This is the same Josh Hart who became the first player since the NBA began tracking distances traveled in-game to run a marathon — 26.2 miles — on the court in an eight-game span.
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