{"id":48878,"date":"2022-12-03T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T21:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=48878"},"modified":"2022-12-03T16:44:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T21:44:23","slug":"knick-mavericks-tim-hardaway-luka-doncic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2022\/12\/03\/knick-mavericks-tim-hardaway-luka-doncic\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Knicks Wing Sends Strong Message After Big Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuesday\u2019s big win was less of a turning point and more of a breather for the New York Knicks as Saturday\u2019s 121-100 loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2022\/08\/24\/grading-the-luka-doncic-and-trae-young-trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Luka Doncic<\/a> and the Dallas Mavericks brought with it a bit of shade as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The loss drops the Knicks to 10-12 on the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They remain one game and spot better than the Chicago Bulls. They are also one half-game behind the Washington Wizards for the 10 seed. That would be the final slot in the Play-In Tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York led by as many as 15 points but saw Dallas outscore them 41-15 in the third quarter alone. Doncic finished with a game-high 30 points to go with eight rebounds and seven assists but right behind him was former Knicks swingman <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2020\/03\/03\/tim-hardaway-jr-deserves-a-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Tim Hardaway<\/a> Jr. with 28 points. He scored 24 of his points by hitting 8-of-13 triples and let it be known he felt right at home at MSG.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tim Hardaway Jr Sends Strong Message After Win Over Knicks<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knicks Traded Tim Hardaway Twice<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Knicks drafted Hardaway with the 24th overall pick in 2013 but he would only last two seasons in the Big Apple before getting traded to the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for the draft rights to point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2018\/12\/10\/analyzing-the-most-improved-player-award-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Jerian Grant<\/a> who is now out of the league.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He would sign back with the Knicks in 2017 only to be traded once again in the deal that sent <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2021\/06\/08\/kristaps-porzingis-trade-scenarios\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> to the Mavericks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Porzinigs was later traded to the Washington Wizards while Hardaway just tortured the Knicks.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tim Hardaway Jr. when asked if he said &quot;this is my city&quot; here:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t say that. You can read my lips and see what I said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What did he say?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to say it because I would get fined if I said it.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GFhFnl07Ob\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/GFhFnl07Ob<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Callie Caplan (@CallieCaplan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CallieCaplan\/status\/1599143219249438722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We needed it,\u201d Hardaway said after the game, per Grant Afseth of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrantAfseth\/status\/1599131111753338880\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FanNation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cWe love playing in New York I guess. Coach said best before the game that we aren&#8217;t leaving here without a win. I think guys took it to heart. We have to keep that same mentality moving forward.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCoach\u201d is Mavs head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2022\/09\/19\/dallas-mavericks-season-preview-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Jason Kidd<\/a> who has plenty of history with the Knicks in his nearly 30 years as a player and coach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The final season of Kidd\u2019s illustrious playing career came in a Knicks uniform. This after years spent with the rival then-New Jersey Nets. He spoke on Hardaway\u2019s back-to-back 20-point outings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since he&#8217;s been going, he hadn&#8217;t had to create anything,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrantAfseth\/status\/1599137533211729920\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kidd said<\/a>. It&#8217;s just been catch-and-shoot. He&#8217;s been open. We were running a few plays \u2014 a couple of pindowns \u2014 to get him a different look that way. He&#8217;s put in the work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2022\/04\/26\/three-julius-randle-trade-ideas\/\" target=\"_self\">Julius Randle<\/a> had 24 points while <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2022\/11\/30\/knicks-quarterly-report-card\/\" target=\"_self\">Immanuel Quickley<\/a> was right behind him with 23 points as <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2022\/11\/08\/mitchell-serves-knicks-a-brutal-reminder\/\" target=\"_self\">R.J. Barrett<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2022\/06\/30\/knicks-cleared-cap-space-for-jalen-brunson\/\" target=\"_self\">Jalen Brunson<\/a> combined for just 26 points.<\/p>\n<h3>Trying to Move On<\/h3>\n<p>Whatever it is, the Mavs need it to continue as they battle it out in a tough Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Knicks, they have now lost four of their last five games and are still searching for answers to this recent slump. Hardaway&#8217;s message will soon be forgotten &#8212; save for when these two teams meet in Dallas on December 27. Still, it can&#8217;t feel too good to have a former player return and have a night as Hardaway did while the Knicks are trying to right their ship.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll try to do that against the Cleveland Cavaliers and would-be (should-be?) Knicks star <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2022\/09\/21\/nba-top-20-players-20-donovan-mitchell\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Donovan Mitchell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"gVyX95J3RmNW57w0PAU9_Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/630633376\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'gVyX95J3RmNW57w0PAU9_Q',sig:'GZjUw4lZchGQlX4vq4kzXqfmbjy4MnPjgPv7REEp7cg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'630633376',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday\u2019s loss to Tim Hardaway Jr. and the Dallas Mavericks brought with it a bit of shade as well for the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2879,"featured_media":48879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,12],"tags":[175,218,1133,58,287],"class_list":["post-48878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-knicks","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-jason-kidd","tag-luka-doncic","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-tim-hardaway-jr"],"modified_by":"Josh Buckhalter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}