The guard of the New York Knicks Josh Hart has been hot to start this season, but is questionable against the Miami Heat on Wednesday night.

That’s the official diagnosis from the Knicks as they open a four-game road trip in South Beach (7:30 p.m. ET, MSG). Hart’s disease is also listed as a contusion of the lower leg.

Hart is coming off a bittersweet performance in the Knicks’ loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night: He had his second straight double-double with 16 points and 13 rebounds (including four of the offensive variety), but he was forced to leave the game with an apparent lower-body injury after a collision with Caris LeVert.

Hart won two successful free throws following the incident and sank both, but called for a substitution soon after. The Knicks (1-2) missed it in the final four minutes as Cleveland outscored them 5-2 to secure it. a 110-104 win. Hart was also questionable for Monday’s game after suffering a limp in Friday’s home opener against Indiana, but recovered well enough to score 20 and retire 10.

Hart is second on the Knicks in the rebounding department, behind only Karl-Anthony Towns. That talent came into play following the loss of Julius Randle and Isaiah Hartenstein in the offseason, as well as the continued absences of Precious Achiuwa and Mitchell Robinson, both of whom remained mainstays in the “out” column on nightly injury lists.

The idea of ​​Hart, known for throwing a string of complete games in the most crucial stretches of last season, to call for the ejection had to be a scary sign for Knicks fans amid an already heartbreaking loss. The fact that his diagnosis is merely “questionable,” though, has to be somewhat of an encouraging sign for a team in need of some good news.

Miami’s only entrant on the injury report is Kevin Love, who has yet to play this season due to personal reasons. That trend is set to continue on Wednesday as Love was officially ruled out.

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