Josh Hart is still upset over Mitchell Robinson’s departure.
On Thursday night, the Knicks guard took to X to reply to the Celtics announcing Robinson as a key big man on their team, writing to Boston, “Yo admin delete this.”
Hart and Robinson played four years together in New York after the Knicks acquired Hart in a trade with the Trail Blazers in 2023.
Robinson and his former teammates have been interacting with each other through social media quite a lot since the center signed a three-year, $47.4 million deal with Boston.
Robinson, who spent eight years with the Knicks, even said he didn’t want to leave New York when chatting online with NBA Finals hero OG Anunoby.
“I tried brother, I didn’t want this to happen,” Robinson replied to an Anunoby comment about his exit on Instagram.
“Hopefully the truth comes out at some point. I’m going to miss you big dawg!”
Robinson’s murky Knicks future was a big talking point immediately after the championship run, especially after owner James Dolan made it clear he had a reluctance to go into the second apron of the salary cap.
“There’s certain things in the NBA that you’d have to be suicidal to do. One of them is the second apron. Cannot go into the second apron,” Dolan said in an appearance on WFAN’s “The Carton Show” last month before Robinson signed with the Celtics.
“I’ll write as big of a check as possible, but I can’t write a check that goes into the second apron.”
The second apron is set around $222 million this season, with restrictions and other punishments imposed on teams that go over that.
Robinson was drafted by the Knicks in 2018, averaging 7.5 points, eight rebounds, 0.9 steals and 0.7 assists per game in his eight seasons.
During the Knicks NBA Finals run, he averaged 5.3 points, 5.5 rebounds, 0.3 assists per game.
The Knicks have brought back Landry Shamet, Jose Alvarado, Mohamed Diawara and Clarkson this offseason and replaced Robinson with veteran Andre Drummond. The deals cost the Knicks $17.5 million against the cap.
