Surprisingly, the Knicks filed an entirely clean report with the league, with two key starters--Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart--notable for their absence. Both Hart and Brunson were centers of attention late in the Knicks' Game 5 loss at Madison Square Garden, because each went out with just under three minutes to play because of injuries.

Brunson could not re-enter for the stretch run, when he so often thrives. It cost the Knicks the opportunity to close out this series, which shifts to Detroit for Game 6.

I don’t have an answer to that because I have to rewatch it,” a perplexed Karl-Anthony Towns said of the lack of Brunson and Hart, per Stefan Bondy of the New York Post. “There was a lot going on when all that happened,