The eight-year veteran guard has always played above his 6-foot-4, 215-lb frame. He’s relentless on defense and makes hustle plays that don’t necessarily show up in the box score, just like he did in the Knicks’ first win of the Eastern Conference Finals two days ago.

There are several reasons the Knicks are back in the Eastern Conference finals for the first time in 25 years. Hart, a do-it-all guard who epitomizes the team's ethos, is one of them.

The New York Knicks' regularly scheduled Josh Hart antics were fashionably late and undeniably clutch in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Hart's de facto demotion from the Knicks' starting lineup,