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On a night when the opposing coach compared his acumen on the boards to Dennis Rodman\u2019s, Josh Hart moved ever closer toward joining an elite category of rebounders in NBA history.<\/p>\n
Hart\u2019s 18 rebounds in another triple-double performance in Saturday\u2019s win over the Kings gave him an eye-opening average of 9.8 per game in 45 appearances this season.<\/p>\n
With 36 games remaining, beginning with Monday\u2019s home matchup against the Grizzlies, the 6-foot-4 Hart has a legitimate chance to become only the fourth guard in NBA history to record at least 10 rebounds per game in one season, according to StatMuse.<\/p>\n
Tom Gola accomplished the feat in three consecutive years for the Philadelphia Warriors from 1957-60. Oscar Robertson also did it in three straight seasons for the Cincinnati Royals from 1960-63. And Russell Westbrook grabbed at least 10 per game four times \u2014 three for the Thunder from 2016-19 and again for the Wizards in 2020-21.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old Hart has averaged 12.7 rebounds over 13 January games, and he easily will join that company if he continues at a similar clip the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just try to go get the basketball,\u201d Hart said following his sixth triple-double of the season, the fifth most in the league. \u201cSometimes, unfortunately, I steal rebounds from my guys. I don\u2019t try to.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhenever I see the ball hit the rim, I see the ball and nothing else. I see arms and all that. I have no idea whose arms they are. My thing is just, \u2018Go get the basketball.\u2019 So I think it\u2019s that.\u201d<\/p>\n
While teammate Karl-Anthony Towns ranks second overall in the NBA in rebounding (13.9 rpg), behind only Sacramento\u2019s Domantas Sabonis, Hart is second to Sabonis in total rebounds for the month with 165.<\/p>\n
Hart also is scoring 14.1 points per game and posting career highs in rebounds, assists (5.7), minutes (37.8), steals (1.5) and field goal percentage (.558).<\/p>\n
\u201cNot only the rebounds, whatever the game [needs] \u2014 the hustle, the heart, the toughness,\u201d Tom Thibodeau said Saturday night. \u201cAnd then getting into the gaps and then making plays. He\u2019s a terrific playmaker, particularly when you\u2019re trying to get the ball out of [Jalen Brunson\u2019s] hands.<\/p>\n
\u201cJosh reads the floor well. He reads the game. He doesn\u2019t fight the game. So if someone\u2019s open they get the ball. It\u2019s really simple. When you play like that, good things come from it. We feel like he\u2019s a secondary ball handler. We can initiate offense with him. We can bring it to him on the backside.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kings coach Doug Christie, who appeared in 35 games for the Knicks in the mid-\u201990s, also compared Hart\u2019s ability to read where the ball is going and to grab offensive rebounds \u2014 including seven against Sacramento \u2014 to that of Rodman.<\/p>\n
At 6-foot-7, the Hall of Famer and five-time NBA champion is three inches taller than Hart, but he led the league in rebounding seven times and finished with a career average of 13.1 per game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like him. He\u2019s a good player, I like how he gets down,\u201d Christie said of Hart. \u201cI respect [him], and Thibs finds those guys and he puts them out there and they do what they do. Next time we see him, we\u2019ll be better. Hats off. That\u2019s how they play. It\u2019s a brand of basketball that if you don\u2019t buckle up, it can get bumpy. And tonight it did for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Christie, Hart is \u201cplaying a whole different [game] on the backside\u201d during the Knicks\u2019 offensive sets, reading the play and waiting for his chances to crash the glass.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s actually going to do something every single time,\u201d Christie said. \u201cIf you\u2019re in help [defense], if you\u2019re wherever you\u2019re at, and you don\u2019t get a body on him, he\u2019s getting in there and he\u2019s either getting the ball or he\u2019s getting his hands on the ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you almost have to play him mano [a] mano on the backside, kind of like Dennis Rodman. \u2026 It\u2019s like, you face-guard him and don\u2019t worry about what\u2019s going on [elsewhere] so he\u2019s not getting [the ball]. You\u2019re not getting it, but the key is he\u2019s not getting it. But give him credit. That\u2019s part of who he is and what he does, and you gotta respect that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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