DALLAS — The light is at the end of the tunnel — possibly 12 days away.
Knicks shooting guard Tim Hardaway Jr. returned to practice limitedly Saturday in Dallas, participated in halfcourt scrimmages and acknowledged he could return during the six-game western road trip that starts in Utah on Jan. 18.
“Maybe sometime on the West Coast,’’ Hardaway said after practice at AmericanAirlines Center. “Not going to have too many home games so possibly so. … Hopefully if not this next week [upcoming], the week after that.”
Hardaway, suffering from a stress reaction in his left leg, has missed five weeks — the Knicks now straining without his offensive punch, falling to 18-21.