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GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 With nine losses in 11 games, the New York Knicks<\/a> are falling all over themselves.<\/p>\n

Really, they are. That\u2019s how Jalen Brunson said he sprained his right ankle last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s embarrassing to say versus watching, so it\u2019s tripping over my own two damn, or one foot, whatever,\u201d Brunson said Tuesday. \u201cAnd yeah, it\u2019s that simple.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brunson was hurt last Wednesday early in a loss at Sacramento when it appeared his ankle gave out while he was dribbling and he fell to the court. He sat out two losses and things got worse when he returned Monday, as the Knicks trailed by 30 points at home in the first half against the Dallas Mavericks in a 114-97 loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Josh Hart also returned Monday after he sat out the previous game with soreness in his ankle that had recently sidelined him. He was originally injured on Christmas when he stepped on a Cleveland player’s foot during a fast break \u2014 a much different way than Brunson was hurt.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just (goes) to the unathletic claims for him,\u201d Hart said. \u201cI sprained my ankle because I landed on somebody. He was out two games because he tripped over himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hart rarely passes on a chance to poke fun at his friend and former Villanova teammate, but this is no time for humor for the Knicks.<\/p>\n

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The Knicks were booed repeatedly Monday and have lost four in row entering their game Wednesday at home against Brooklyn. They have fallen to 25-18 after they started 23-9 and won the NBA Cup last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not a bad team by any means,\u201d Hart said. \u201cBut we\u2019re falling into bad habits and we’ve got to fix that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their string of losses began only at the end of December, but the Knicks seem to believe some of those bad habits started after they won the Cup in Las Vegas a couple of weeks earlier. Getting to and then winning the final essentially added another West road trip to their schedule.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that, we hit a few road bumps, but it started trending the other way. And now it\u2019s at a point where it\u2019s trending the other way win-loss wise pretty bad,\u201d coach Mike Brown said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut all the guys in the locker room are competitive. So it\u2019s hard for me or anybody to say, \u2018Hey, you know, we don\u2019t want to win.\u2019 That\u2019s just not going to happen. So we\u2019re going to play every game to win, and if we go play every game to win, that\u2019s the result of it. There\u2019s no time off, it is what it is, and we\u2019ve got to figure it out. And I don\u2019t think there\u2019s \u2014 I know starting with me \u2014 I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s anybody in that room that\u2019s been in this situation before. And so we all have to try to collectively figure out how we\u2019re going to get back on track.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brunson, who missed 15 games late last season when he sprained the same ankle, said he will continue getting treatment to get his ankle back to full strength. And he thinks the Knicks will recover, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cStruggles happen,\u201d he said. \u201cSo we\u2019ve got to get ourselves out of the funk.\u201d<\/p>\n

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