Starting center Mitchell Robinson once more appears unhappy together with his role with the Knicks.
In a few since-deleted Snapchat stories following Tuesday’s win in Portland, the 7-foot center indicated he’d wish to be more involved within the Knicks’ offense.
One was captioned “disappearing for some time,” and the opposite included the text “drained asf of just being on the market for cardio fam, like I need to play basketball to (sic) really just wasting my time and energy.”
Robinson notched a double-double in five of his first six appearances after coming back from January thumb surgery, but he mostly had a quiet four-game road trip out West.
He averaged 5.3 points and seven.8 rebounds in 23.3 minutes per appearance, including just two field-goal attempts in 21 minutes in Tuesday’s victory over the Trail Blazers.
Backup center Isaiah Hartenstein played barely more minutes on the trip — 23.8 per game — but he also has not been involved within the offense with just nine points in 4 appearances.
He did post 11 rebounds in each of the ultimate two victories despite being held with no point by each the Lakers and the Blazers.
On a distinct social media account, Robinson also tweeted after Tuesday’s game, “Life’s a climb, however the views great” with a heart emoji and “Goodnight!”
The Knicks improved to 11-3 with Josh Hart within the lineup — and 41-30 overall — after he posted 16 points, nine rebounds and eight assists in 37 minutes off the bench in his return to Portland following a trade-deadline move to Recent York.
“Man, it’s great. I believe this team was trending upward after I came. And I used to be capable of type of just fit right in and proceed to assist this team grow. I believe that’s the most important thing,” said Hart, who hasn’t appeared in a postseason game in six NBA seasons.
“It feels great that we’re capable of win, and I’m in a latest position immediately where I’m sitting here and we’re really playing for something.
“I haven’t really been on this position before in my profession. In order that’s just making myself much more hungry, and the remainder of the fellows within the locker room.”
RJ Barrett averaged 22.0 points on the four-game trip despite shooting 4-for-22 (.182) from 3-point range.
But he got to the rim consistently and shot 45.3 percent overall from the ground (34-for-75) because the Knicks split the 4 games.
He also registered a career-high three blocked shots Tuesday night.
