{"id":4717,"date":"2025-05-07T21:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T01:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/knicks-rise-again-they-come-back-from-20-points-down-and-knock-out-the-celtics-in-a-thrilling-finish\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T21:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T01:59:57","slug":"knicks-rise-again-they-come-back-from-20-points-down-and-knock-out-the-celtics-in-a-thrilling-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/knicks-rise-again-they-come-back-from-20-points-down-and-knock-out-the-celtics-in-a-thrilling-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks Rise Again! They Come Back from 20 Points Down and Knock Out the Celtics in a Thrilling Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Knicks come back from 20 points and lead Eastern Conference semifinals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Mikal Bridges shined with 14 points in the final quarter, culminating with a crucial steal, and the New York Knicks achieved an impressive comeback to defeat the Boston Celtics 91-90, securing a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jalen Brunson scored 17 points for the Knicks, including two free throws that gave them a 91-90 lead with 12.7 seconds remaining. The Celtics&#8217; Jayson Tatum couldn&#8217;t get close to the basket, and Bridges stepped in to steal the ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cThey made every play,\u201d Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla commented. \u201cAt the end of the third and fourth quarters, I think we generated good opportunities, but we had live-ball turnovers and they capitalized on them. They made the plays they needed to win. We put ourselves in a position to do it, but we didn\u2019t execute the plays.\u201d <\/p>\n\n<cite>Joe Mazzulla<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Josh Hart contributed 23 points and Karl-Anthony Towns finished with 21 points and 17 rebounds for the Knicks, who will host Game 3 on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaylen Brown and Derrick White each scored 20 points for the Celtics, who shot 10 of 40 from 3-point range, after going 15 of 60 in Game 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knicks come back from 20 points and lead Eastern Conference semifinals Mikal Bridges shined with 14 points in the final quarter, culminating with a crucial steal, and the New York Knicks achieved an impressive comeback to defeat the Boston Celtics 91-90, securing a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Jalen Brunson scored 17 points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[112,242,370,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-4717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-celtics","9":"tag-knicks","10":"tag-mikal-bridges","11":"tag-nba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}