DENVER — Joakim Noah was not with the Knicks when they played the Nuggets on Thursday night because of what the team called “personal reasons.” The veteran center will not be with the team on Friday night, either, when the Knicks finish their seven-game road trip in Phoenix.
The Knicks were tight-lipped about the reason for Noah’s absence. He appeared in his seventh game of the season on Tuesday at Golden State and practiced with the team on Wednesday in Denver, but he was gone when the Knicks showed up at the Pepsi Center for their morning shootaround on Thursday.