From Garrett Stepien: The Knicks snapped a three-game skid with Sunday’s 128-116 win over the Bulls, avenging this past Friday’s 135-125 loss and delivering Chicago’s season-first defeat. Takeaways Jalen Brunson’s 19 first-quarter points set the tone for New York (3-3), which built a 34-24 lead after 12 minutes. Brunson totaled 31 points on 10-of-22 shooting […]
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From Stefan Bondy: The Knicks showed up on Halloween as a team at full strength. It wasn’t a disguise but still felt like a ruse as they were toppled Friday night by the Bulls 135-125, a defeat summarized by a terrible start, a strong third quarter, a poor finish and a defense in the sewer. […]
From Stefan Bondy: The Knicks left here with enough bricks to help all that construction on Brickell Avenue. Mike Brown’s club missed 39 3-pointers in Sunday night’s 115-107 defeat to the Heat, with its misfiring both diverse in categories — some were wide open, others were poor decisions — and widespread. Still, the misses didn’t […]
From Zach Braziller: Maybe Tom Thibodeau was helping his old team after all. His recent visit with the Celtics, when he broke down how the Knicks beat them last spring, didn’t do much good. In fact, in the first meeting between the two teams since the Knicks sent Boston home last May, not much changed. […]
From Andrew Battifarano: The Knicks started the Mike Brown era on a solid note. New York tipped off its season with a thrilling 119-111 win over the Cavaliers on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden behind a full team effort. The Knicks led by 15 points at halftime but watched that lead evaporate in the […]
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From Stefan Bondy, who is now covering the Knicks for the Post after the Daily News let him go: An old enemy in new digs punished the Knicks on opening night. Kristaps Porzingis went from booed during introductions to being cursed in a chant to taking over down the stretch of Boston’s 108-104 comeback victory […]
From the AP: Donovan Mitchell had 38 points and a career-high 12 assists, Kevin Love scored 16 of his 29 points in the fourth quarter and the Cleveland Cavaliers rallied to beat the New York Knicks 121-108 on Sunday night. Mitchell and Love combined for 28 points in the final period as Cleveland outscored New […]
From Jamal Collier: The Milwaukee Bucks are the NBA’s last remaining unbeaten team, improving to 4-0 with a 119-108 victory against the New York Knicks on Friday night. It’s the fourth time in franchise history the Bucks have started a season at least 4-0 and their best start since 2018-19, when they rattled off seven straight victories en route […]
From the AP: Jalen Brunson scored 27 points, hitting the go-ahead basket in overtime, and the New York Knicks beat the Charlotte Hornets 134-131 on Wednesday night. Brunson also had 13 assists and seven rebounds. RJ Barrett scored 22 points, and Julius Randle had 17 for New York, at 3-1 off to its best start […]