Josh Hart Talks About the Knicks’ Win Sinking in and How His Scouting Shaped His Life (Exclusive)
Plus, find out his go-to Mike & Ike flavors to snack on before playing in a game
Key Takeaways
AI-generated summary reviewed by our editorial team.- Hart savors the Knicks’ 2026 title, saying the win is starting to sink in.
- Credits Scouting for resilience and vows to teach those lessons to his kids.
- Hart discusses his favorite Mike & Ike candy flavors to enjoy before a game.
Josh Hart, #3 on the New York Knicks, is finally able to process his team’s incredible win at the 2026 NBA Championship. After having an instrumental role in the team’s win, which was their first in 53 years, Hart is letting the feat sink in.
The team snagged the win during Game 5, defeating the San Antonio Spurs with a 94-90 score, thrilling the Knicks’ massive fanbase. Now, Hart has teamed up with Scouting America, formerly known as Boy Scouts of America, “which aims to prepare young people for lives of impact and purpose.”
The Knicks guard spoke with Woman’s World to talk about the game on everyone’s mind, becoming Scouting America’s newest ambassador and how his own Scouting experience has shaped his life and journey to the NBA.
Woman’s World: How are you feeling about the Knicks’ incredible performance?
Josh Hart: I feel like it’s starting to sink in a little bit. It’s cool because I go on Twitter [X], and obviously there’s no basketball going on right now, so sometimes the NBA Twitter [X] page posts an uncut, raw, four minutes of the finals. Then, obviously on the Knicks Twitter, they’re never gonna not post the championship. So I’ve been seeing that a little bit more on my timeline, and I’m actually able to appreciate it now that I’m kind of away from it. I can appreciate what we did and it can hit home a little more.
WW: Now, a few rapid fire questions about basketball: When heading to practice or a game, what is one item you never leave the house without—besides your phone?
Josh Hart: Besides my phone… I’ll say a watch. I know it sounds weird, but I always gotta know the time. Even when I go to shoot around and I’m wearing one of my watches, people say, “Bro, why are you wearing a watch?” I look at my watch for time. I try not to look at my phone
WW: What’s a hobby outside of basketball that people may be surprised to learn you enjoy?
Josh Hart: I love wine—that they don’t really know. I’m a huge sports fan, so how people are maniacs with the Knicks, I’m like that with the Commanders and Chelsea. I’m not as wild as some of these Twitter people, but I’m die hard for my teams. Some people know that, but I’m just like them, just in a different fashion.
WW: You’re known for snacking on Mike and Ike candy before your games—what is the absolute top flavor in the box, and which one gets left behind?
Josh Hart: Honestly, if I showed you my locker, I have almost every flavor. I have, like, two boxes of every flavor, so it’s really just what the mood of the day is. I don’t usually like Jolly Joes [grape flavored]. I don’t know if I’d ever tell Mike [& Ike] that, but I never eat those ones pregame. But everything else: the originals are the main go-to, but I love the full sour, the Sour Blue Raspberry, Sour Watermelon, the Tropical Typhoon, the Berry Blast, Red Rageous—I’m locked in.
WW: Talk about your partnership with Scouting America and why you wanted to be their newest ambassador?
Josh Hart: I am who I am partly due to Scouting. It was a huge part of my upbringing and it’s helped me become the man I am now, having that resilience, perseverance, togetherness and hard work. When [you face] adverse situations, you don’t crumble, you band together and you get through it. It was important for me to partner with them for little kids to understand, “Hey, this is someone who’s made it to the top of the mountain in their own profession, but the core and the foundation of who he is dates back to Scouting.”
WW: Why did you feel like Scouting was important for you to return to?
Josh Hart: My dad’s said, “Let’s go take a drive,” so I get in the car, he pulls up to to where we’re having a meeting and he says, “You made me promise before that you would finish [Scouting] and you have to be a man of your word. You don’t just give empty promises.” So I got back in it then. That was very interesting because it was a dead sprint trying to finish and try to be an Eagle rank by 18, but I was happy I did it. My dad was instrumental in getting me back in, but also in helping me maintain my sanity during that dead sprint.
WW: Do you feel that fulfilling that promise helped to shape your overall work ethic now?
Josh Hart: 100%. Especially with how society is now. Everyone is so consumed with phones and social media and technology and you don’t really get out into the real world. Scouting can help do that. It’s not just going outside once a week with some friends to hang out. It’s giving you life lessons. It’s putting you in positions to succeed, but also to fail and see how you pick yourself up.
WW: Did being a father of sons inspire your decision to work with Scouting America?
Josh Hart: Yeah. If you ask my kids now, I’m not a leader because they don’t listen to me. One goes one way and one goes the other way. So maybe I need to brush up a little bit on my skills, but I want to teach them a lot of those life lessons that Scouting’s taught me. If I was half the man that my dad is, and half the man that Scouts prepared me to be, I think I’d be in good shape to help lead them. But that is definitely part of the reason because I have young boys who I hope grow up to be even better people.
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