Knicks Guard Josh Hart’s Love Story With Shannon Hart

To hear Shannon Hart tell it, she almost slept on now-husband Josh Hart. 

Because when the future Knicks standout transferred to Washington, D.C.’s tony Sidwell Friends School (alumni include Chelsea Clinton, Malia Obama and Sasha Obama) he wasn’t exactly holding court. 

“Everyone was like, ‘Who is this kid?'” Shannon revealed in a New York Times profile last October. “He would show up to class 30 minutes late, walk into the classroom, take off his backpack, lean back and close his eyes and go to sleep in front of the teacher—like the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen.” 

Still, she found herself huddling up with the 6-foot-5 athlete. 

And, roughly a year after they met, the Silver Springs, Md. native decided to shoot his shot, texting to ask the soccer player if she liked him, liked him.  

Their first date, at the campus’ cafe, the Fox Den, auspiciously took place on November 11, 2011. 

“He was sitting there so nervous,” she recounted, “like trembling.” Joked Josh of his previous playing-the-field stance: “I was nervous I had to cut off the rest of the roster.”