Early thanked his supporters via Twitter on Wednesday afternoon.
Thank you all for your Thoughts and Prayer I appreciate you all! Shout out to you beautiful souls for caring, God works in Mysterious way!
Knicks coach Derek Fisher said he spoke with Early on Wednesday morning.
“He’s doing OK,” Fisher said. “I don’t think we’ve got enough of a medical update to assume everything is OK, but relatively, he’s doing well. It doesn’t appear to be life-threatening at this point. But obviously, until you’re released from the hospital I think we also have to be cautious.”
Fisher later said: “The most important thing is that it appears at least that he’s going to still be with us and hopefully be back with our team soon. To what extent of the injury, etc, we won’t know that for now. But for sure, to know that he’s still here and doing relatively well, as well as you could be, I think we’ll take that.”
Fisher, team security and management addressed the team about the incident on Wednesday before morning workouts “to remind them of how serious this is.”
“There are certain things that come with being visible in terms of being a public figure,” Fisher said, adding that the message to players was “to continue to try to be as vigilant and as careful as you can knowing that you can’t always avoid other people’s choices.”
Police were searching for suspects and trying to determine whether it was a carefully planned attack or a spur-of-the-moment one.
Knicks forward Kristaps Porzingis wished Early well.
Prayers for my brother @Clearly_BallLyf
Another Knicks teammate, J.R. Smith, made a point of saying he thought Early wasn’t doing anything wrong.
Since when has it been a crime to have fun with ya girl? #GuessThatsWrongHuh?
