Jalen Brunson returned to the court for the New York Knicks after missing a single game due to a knee injury. Coach Thibodeau expressed his condolences for the passing of longtime Knicks employee Chris Bernard.
He had been listed as questionable prior to tipoff but warmed up without a setback and returned following his lone absence of the season. Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks warms up before the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Jan. 3, 2025, at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.McBride, the team’s top reserve, had missed five games earlier this season because of a sore knee. Following Friday morning’s shootaround, Karl-Anthony Towns wore a hard brace over his left ring finger.
Towns injured the finger in Wednesday’s victory over the Jazz, but kept playing and finished with 31 points and 21 rebounds. \“I’m just kind of saying more my situation if someone did it, something happened and kind of if it was on this court,” Hartenstein said. “I can’t tell you what they saw but if I saw it, I probably would have said something .”Brunson said the Knicks should’ve won the game to stop the celebration. Thibodeau expressed sympathy for the family of longtime and former Knicks employee Chris Bernard, who died suddenly from a heart attack earlier this week at just 47 years old. “Just sad,” the Knicks coach said. “And obviously condolences go to his family. Thoughts and prayers are with them. I was with the Knicks (as an assistant under Jeff Van Gundy) when he was hired. And just an unbelievable person. A bright light every day. Great energy. Positive. Just sad. Really sad.” Bernard worked for the Knicks for over a decade, including as the VP of player development. More recently, he was the SVP of athlete marketing and development with The Players’ Tribune.A GoFundMe page set up by NBPA executive Dan Gladstone for Bernard’s family had raised roughly $140,000 by Friday afternoon.Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks warms up before the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Jan. 3, 2025, at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahom
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