Though Knicks small forward Cleanthony Early is considered lucky, he is not expected to return to action until after the All-Star break, sometime in March, according to a friend.
Early suffered a gunshot wound to his right knee Dec. 30 after being robbed near a Queens strip club at 4:15 a.m. after celebrating his girlfriend’s birthday. Early is expected to begin some sort of rehab very shortly.
“He’s feeling better and he’s going to be fine,’’ a friend told The Post. “It was the best possible outcome, and it’s not going to have any effect on his career.