NEW YORK — After the greatest shot in his franchise’s history, putting the New York Knicks one win away from ending 53 years of misery, Josh Hart sat at his locker alone. Frozen.Physically, Hart was unwinding in his happy place. Mentally, though, his mind couldn’t leave the “what if?”“Thank God for OG,” he told me when my approach broke his trance.Hart was referring to 1:59 left in the fourth quarter of Game 4 of the NBA Finals. His team trailed by one when he stole an errant pass and had a runway that, essentially, could have sealed a victory. Hart rose to dunk, but his leg gave out on him, forcing him to drop the ball on the back rim and watch it bounce back into the hands of the San Antonio Spurs.This sequence is the beauty of both Josh Hart, the player and Josh Hart, the person. It was his steal, anticipation and will that put New York deeper into the driver’s seat on the way to history. Hart is always at the right place at the right time. Some might call that luck, but is it luck when it happens over and over again?Yet, it was the miss that stuck with Hart. Even though the Knicks found a way to win despite Hart’s miscue, that blunder — and all that might have come with it had OG Anunoby’s tip-in a few plays later, winning the game for New York — was what he obsessed over.The man whose ability to make games look imperfect is always looking for perfection.“I got a special shout-out for OG, because he saved me a lifetime of regret,” Hart said after.The imperfection of Hart, the player, is what makes him great. His obsession with perfection, though, is what makes him a champion. Hart is a creator of chaos and, therefore, someone who manifests winning plays out of hustle and determination. Back-breaking rebounds. On-time, on-target passes. Suffocating defense. Yet, the Knicks needed Hart to make open jump shots if they were going to eventually become NBA champions. And for all Hart brings to the game, it was that realization that he would hyper-focus on.“You’ve never seen me happier to play just 18 minutes,” Hart said after the Knicks won Game 2 of the NBA Finals, a performance in which he went 0-for-4 from the field and 0-for-2 from 3.So what did Hart do, as the San Antonio defense continued to leave him open, daring him to shoot? He casually knocked down eight of his last 15 3-point attempts. That’s who Hart is. A winner. Someone who just figures things out, even when people are antsy to pull the plug on the Hart experience.