Actress and singer Jennifer Hudson got a little more than she bargained for while seated courtside at the latest New York Knicks game.
In the Knicks’ 114-113 victory, Tom Thibodeau’s reserves actually won the points battle, and that was in large part due to Miles McBride.
Jennifer Hudson’s outing to a basketball game this week may have gotten a bit too real. The singer was sat court-side at a New York Knicks game Tuesday night beside her boyfriend rapper Common, when a basketball flung from the court and appeared to hit her on the head.
To the public eye, McBride hasn’t always been a good 3-point shooter. In very limited minutes during his first two seasons, McBride never shot better than 30 percent behind the arc. However, behind the scenes, head coach Tom Thibodeau and the Knicks coaching staff felt very confident that McBride would show more than he had with more opportunity.
Coming out of the All-Star break, McBride was averaging 9.0 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game on the year, playing a career-high 23.2 minutes per game. Thursday night was McBride's first start of the season.
The New York Knicks’ comeback win over the Miami Heat on Sunday featured one very notable change down the stretch. Mikal Bridges was benched in the entire
The pair was pressed into starting duty as forward OG Anunoby missed his sixth consecutive game with a right foot sprain.