On the other side, the Bulls have two players listed on their injury report for Friday’s game as they have ruled out Coby White and Zach Collins. For White, he remains sidelined due to a calf strain that has caused him to miss every game of the season thus far.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/nba/knicks/onsi as Knicks Look to Halt Disappointing NBA Cup Trend. The NBA Cup is upon us once again, and fans of the New York Knicks have reasons to be excited.

Maybe it’s not the centers who have the steepest learning curve under new head coach Mike Brown. Maybe it’s Josh Hart.

Even though every NBA season is its own unique entity, Giannis Antetokounmpo has very strong memories of how the Milwaukee Bucks struggled against the New York Knicks last season as he was dominating in Tuesday's game between the two Eastern Conference teams.

The courts around the NBA are different on Friday night. That's because it's an NBA Cup night. The Chicago Bulls host the New York Knicks as part of the fun. It's the first day of the league's third season of NBA Cup action, the event normally known as the in-season tournament.

Health concerns have loomed larger over the New York Knicks' early season goings more than the fans have been recently accustomed to. Years of former head coach

CHICAGO — The Knicks could easily be 4–0 to open Mike Brown’s first season in New York. Instead, they’re 2–2 — victims of their own cold shooting. They went just 15-of-54 from three in Sunday’s loss to Miami, then 13-of-40 two nights later in Milwaukee.

Former Knick Steve Novak will join MSG Networks as a fill-in for lead Knicks analyst Walt Frazier this season, the network announced on Thursday. Novak is expected to work about a dozen games, starting Friday night against the Bulls in Chicago.