{"id":546124,"date":"2026-01-19T05:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/546124\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T05:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:24:16","slug":"jalen-brunson-josh-harts-status-iffy-ahead-of-game-against-ailing-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/546124\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart&#8217;s status iffy ahead of game against ailing Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Knicks are still nursing some injuries with a couple important iffy statuses for MLK Day. But their opponent is in much worse shape.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart are both questionable with minor ankle injuries for Monday against the Mavericks. Neither played in Saturday\u2019s loss to the Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson, who sprained his ankle Wednesday, missed two consecutive games. The Knicks (25-17), losers of three straight, are 1-4 without him this season.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.47126437;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38220176\" width=\"868\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/la-clippers-vs-new-york-118473849.jpg\" alt=\"New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson #11 speaks with New York Knicks guard Josh Hart #3 off the bench during the fourth quarter. \" class=\"wp-image-38220176\"  \/>New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson #11 speaks with New York Knicks guard Josh Hart #3 off the bench during the fourth quarter.  Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks (17-26), meanwhile, are severely depleted and eager for a good draft lottery odds. <\/p>\n<p>Anthony Davis (finger sprain), Kyrie Irving (knee surgery), D\u2019Angelo Russell (illness), P.J. Washington (personal reasons), Dereck Lively II (foot surgery) and Daniel Gafford (ankle sprain) are all out.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Flagg, the ballyhooed rookie, is listed as questionable for what would be his MSG debut as a professional. Flagg sat the last two games with an ankle sprain.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg didn\u2019t play in the last head-to-head with the Knicks on Nov. 19 in Dallas. The Knicks won 113-111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks are still nursing some injuries with a couple important iffy statuses for MLK Day. But their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,288,327,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-546124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jalen-brunson","10":"tag-josh-hart","11":"tag-knicks","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkknicks","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115920101375896568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}