Unfortunately, Ariel Hukporti Will not have a good memory of his first tenure in the NBA, since the Knicks rookie injured his knee in victory against the Sixers. Integrated into the starting five to replace Karl-Anthony Towns, the young interior has torn a meniscus of the left knee, and the Knicks announced that it would be Unavailable for 4 to 6 weeks.
In the worst case, the German pivot will miss the whole end of the regular season, and if the Knicks qualify for the playoffs, we will see him in mid-April.
Wednesday evening, the latest choice of the Draft 2024 had accumulated 8 points, 2 offensive rebounds and 1 against in 16 minutes against the Sixers, before twisted the knee in the 4th quarter. “I found thatiel had brought us good minutes” had judged Tom Thibodeau after the meeting. “He is a young person who learns and progresses. Each experience, when he plays, allows him to remember something. »»
At the start of the season, the Knicks had converted his ” Two-way Contract “In a two -year contract by New York, and he has played 25 games this season.
Two-way Contract : Designed to create a new bridge between the NBA and the G-League, this type of contract allows each team to attach the services of two or three additional players, to develop them mainly in their affiliated development league franchise but also up to 50 NBA matches.
| Shots | Rebound | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | Lf | Off | Def | Early | PD | COP | Int | Ct | Fte | Pts |
| Jalen Brunson | 57 | 35.2 | 49.0 | 39.8 | 82.5 | 0.4 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 7.4 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 2.2 | 26.1 |
| Karl-Anthony Towns | 52 | 35.1 | 53.2 | 43.2 | 83.7 | 3.1 | 10.4 | 13.5 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 3.5 | 24.8 |
| Mikal Bridges | 58 | 38.0 | 49.2 | 36.1 | 73.4 | 0.9 | 2.2 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 17.7 |
| OG Anunoby | 52 | 36.2 | 47.5 | 36.0 | 80.6 | 1.2 | 3.4 | 4.7 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 16.0 |
| Josh Hart | 55 | 37.8 | 55.6 | 33.7 | 80.3 | 2.2 | 7.6 | 9.8 | 5.7 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 14.7 |
| Miles McBride | 48 | 23.5 | 41.8 | 36.9 | 85.7 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 9.0 |
| Cameron Payne | 52 | 14.5 | 41.9 | 37.3 | 89.1 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 7.2 |
| Precious Achiuwa | 37 | 22.8 | 52.6 | 32.1 | 61.2 | 2.1 | 3.9 | 6.1 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 7.0 |
| Landry Shamet | 26 | 11.1 | 44.9 | 32.6 | 42.9 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 3.4 |
| Ariel Hukporti | 25 | 8.7 | 67.7 | 0.0 | 46.2 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 1.9 |
| Pacome Dadiet | 14 | 6.8 | 33.3 | 35.3 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.9 |
| Tyler Kolek | 29 | 5.1 | 38.3 | 39.3 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 1.8 |
| Jericho Sims | 39 | 10.8 | 60.9 | 0.0 | 61.5 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 3.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 1.6 |
| Matt Ryan | 19 | 3.6 | 32.3 | 31.6 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.5 |
| Delon Wright | 3 | 4.3 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.3 |
| Jacob Toppin | 16 | 3.0 | 30.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
