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Knicks’ Josh Hart jokingly demands for Celtics to be drug tested after record-tying performance

The Celtics opened the season in-style Tuesday night, cruising to a blowout win over the rival New York Knicks and raining down an NBA record-tying 29 3-pointers in front of the TD Garden crowd.

After the game, Knicks guard Josh Hart was asked whether the Celtics did anything unusual to generate so many open looks.

Hart shook his head and made a joke about the Celtics’ shooting performance.

“I don’t know. The NBA needs to drug test all of them,” Hart said in a video posted to X by SNY. “I ain’t never seen nothing like that before, man.