There were eight minutes left, and Quentin Grimes had been playing well but sparingly.

Again.

With the Knicks leading by six against the Magic on MLK Day, Miles McBride committed a turnover — one that didn’t appear to have anything to do with Grimes — and Tom Thibodeau reacted by summoning Julius Randle to replace Grimes.

Clearly frustrated after just a four-minute shift, Grimes ran past the Knicks bench and beelined into the Garden tunnel. Replays showed Grimes returning about a minute later and sitting near the end of the bench, where he absorbed the rest of a 98-94 defeat.