Jalen Brunson scored 27 factors and Karl-Anthony Towns had 21 factors and 15 rebounds for the Knicks, who blew a 2-0 lead on this spherical final yr and are nonetheless looking for their first convention finals look since 2000.
Boston made extra 3-pointers than any group in NBA historical past throughout the common season, when it swept all 4 conferences towards New York. However the Celtics have been ice chilly to open this sequence, beginning with an NBA playoff-record 45 misses in Sport 1.
They made their first 4 3-point pictures in a blistering begin Saturday and by no means actually slowed down. They completed 6-for-7 behind the arc en path to a 36-20 lead, their highest-scoring first quarter of the postseason, shortly taking the vitality out of a crowd where some fans paid greater than $600 per ticket to be within the area with the celebrities for one of many largest video games the Knicks have performed within the 2000s.
Tatum and Pritchard hit consecutive 3s for a 55-33 lead with four-and-a-half minutes remaining within the half, and Boston took a 71-46 result in the locker room.
New York was 5-for-25 behind the arc and shot 68.6% on free throws — although that was largely as a result of Mitchell Robinson went 4-for-12 because the Celtics fouled the poor free throw shooter deliberately.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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