Karl-Anthony Towns and Josh Hart both participated in practice Sunday, but they are listed as questionable for the Knicks’ MLK Day matinee against the Hawks.
Towns has missed the past two games due to a right thumb issue and Hart played through what looked like a painful left shoulder injury suffered in the third quarter of Friday’s home loss to the Timberwolves.
The Knicks officially listed his injury as a neck/cervical compression.
“They went through practice, and we’ll see where they are tomorrow,” Tom Thibodeau said Sunday. “They were fine.”
Jalen Brunson said both of his teammates “looked fantastic” in practice, jokingly saying they’re both “great-looking men.”
According to Brunson, playing on the MLK Day holiday “means a lot,” and he called it “a privilege to play this game in this league.”
Thibodeau: “I think it’s an important day for not only our league, but our country. I think all the things that Martin Luther King stood for, it’s withstood the test of time. And it was the equality for all people, not one particular group. It was for everybody, and it’s really strong and powerful. And I think it represents our league.”
Zaccharie Risacher (adductor strain) and Larry Nance Jr. (hand) are out for the Hawks. Trae Young (Achilles) and Jalen Johnson (shoulder) are probable.
