LAS VEGAS — The Knicks have come to expect a lot of things from Josh Hart . But if you caught a glimpse — and we don’t recommend it if you’re eating — of the mangled ring finger on his shooting hand, making teams pay for allowing him to shoot from three-point range would not be on the list.

After injuring the finger in the playoffs against Boston last season, he played through it and shot only 18.2% from outside the arc in the series against Indiana. He injured it again while getting ready for this season and came into camp with the finger still bent in directions that aren’t meant to be. The move to the bench he took in the postseason continued at the start of this season.

The problem was that as valuable as he was, the shooting struggles made him a glitch in the offense. Teams shifte

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