{"id":473449,"date":"2025-12-09T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=473449"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:00:06","slug":"josh-hart-on-knicks-nba-cup-hurdle-weve-got-to-get-over-that-hump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/josh-hart-on-knicks-nba-cup-hurdle-weve-got-to-get-over-that-hump\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hart on Knicks\u2019 NBA Cup hurdle: \u201cWe\u2019ve got to get over that hump\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1077\" data-end=\"1338\">The <strong data-start=\"1081\" data-end=\"1100\">New York Knicks<\/strong> are back in the <strong data-start=\"1117\" data-end=\"1128\">NBA Cup<\/strong> quarterfinals, a round that\u2019s knocked them out in each of the past two years.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1077\" data-end=\"1338\">For <strong data-start=\"1213\" data-end=\"1226\">Josh Hart<\/strong>, this has to be the turning point: \u201cEvery year we fell short at this stage. So we got to get over that hump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1340\" data-end=\"1642\">New York opens knockout play Tuesday in <strong data-start=\"1380\" data-end=\"1391\">Toronto<\/strong>; win there, and it\u2019s on to <strong data-start=\"1419\" data-end=\"1432\">Las Vegas<\/strong> on Saturday to face the <strong data-start=\"1457\" data-end=\"1474\">Miami\u2013Orlando<\/strong> winner.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1340\" data-end=\"1642\">Head coach <strong data-start=\"1496\" data-end=\"1510\">Mike Brown<\/strong> is embracing the stakes: \u201cLife is short. You want excitement. This is about as close as you can get to simulating a playoff run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1644\" data-end=\"1875\">For the Knicks, this <strong data-start=\"1665\" data-end=\"1676\">NBA Cup<\/strong> is a test of maturity: turning a recurring stumbling block into a springboard.<br data-start=\"1755\" data-end=\"1758\" \/>Hart and the group know the only answer is simple: start <strong data-start=\"1815\" data-end=\"1840\">winning on this stage<\/strong>, not just in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1877\" data-end=\"1960\">Source: <em data-start=\"1885\" data-end=\"1915\">New York Post \/ Stefan Bondy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Knicks are back in the NBA Cup quarterfinals, a round that\u2019s knocked them out in each of the past two years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-473449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/New-York-Knicks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473449"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=473449"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=473449"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=473449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}