Tracy Morgan - Food poisoning caused vomiting during Knicks game - ESPN

NEW YORK — Tracy Morgan says food poisoning was to blame for his taking ill during Monday's Heat-Knicks game at Madison Square Garden, and that he's «doing OK.»

The actor-comedian posted an update on Instagram on Tuesday morning, along with a smiling photo from a hospital bed, thanking fans for their concern.

Morgan also suggested humorously that perhaps his health episode spelled good luck for the Knicks.

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«I'm doing ok now and doctors say it was food poisoning. Appreciate my MSG family for taking such good care of me and I need to shout out the crew that had to clean that up. Appreciate you!» Morgan wrote.

«More importantly, the Knicks are now 1-0 when I throw up on the court so maybe I'll have to break it out again in the playoffs,» he quipped, ending his post with a #goknicks hashtag.

Morgan vomited in the second half of Monday night's Heat-Knicks game, interrupting the action at Madison Square Garden with 6:09 left in the third quarter while workers cleaned up the area around his seat. The delay lasted more than 10 minutes. The Knicks went on to win 116-95.

Longtime Knicks fan Morgan, 56, was featured prominently during the «Saturday Night Live» 50th anniversary weekend events, at both the «SNL50: The Homecoming Concert» and the live «SNL50: The Anniversary Celebration» special.

He also has an upcoming untitled comedy pilot on NBC opposite Daniel Radcliffe, in which he plays a disgraced former football player looking to remake his image.

He has struggled with health issues in the past, including a 2010 kidney transplant and a traumatic brain injury from a 2014 accident with a tractor trailer that put him in a coma.