Hours before Friday night’s game against the Heat began, the Knicks announced the first round of bad news for the day: Derrick Rose had undergone a surgical procedure to address a skin infection on the site of his December ankle surgery.
Then in the first quarter, promising rookie Quentin Grimes had to be helped to the locker room after suffering a subluxation of the right patella.
There was one positive in that RJ Barrett scored 30 points in the first half and finished with a career-high 46. But even that performance was not enough to get a win as the Knicks fell to Miami, 115-100, at Madison Square Garden.