{"id":482882,"date":"2024-05-08T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T03:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482882"},"modified":"2024-05-08T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T03:20:08","slug":"knicks-beat-pacers-130-121-for-a-2-0-lead-in-east-1-2-finals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/knicks-beat-pacers-130-121-for-a-2-0-lead-in-east-1-2-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks beat Pacers 130-121 for a 2-0 lead in East 1\/2 finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jalen Brunson returned from a right-foot problem to notch 24 of his 29 points in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, helping the NY Knicks to defeat the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/indiana-pacers\/\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> 130-121 at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY, for a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference \u00bd finals.<\/p>\n<p>On the anniversary of Willis Reed&#8217;s unforgettable emergence from the locker room before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to lead New York to their 1<sup>st<\/sup> championship, Jalen sent the home fans into a frenzy when he returned to warm up at halftime after missing the entire 2<sup>nd<\/sup> quarter while Indiana secured a double-digit lead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thats 2-0, ya heard! \ud83d\udd12 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8ng8DejLHU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8ng8DejLHU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyknicks\/status\/1788398345053962554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Brunson felt short of becoming the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> basketballer in the league history to had 40 or more points in 5 consecutive postseason matches, but he provided his team everything they needed to move within 2 wins from their 1<sup>st<\/sup> East Conference finals series since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>OG Anunoby had a career postseason-high 28 points before sustaining a left hamstring problem in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> quarter and left the court for the injury-plagued New York, who have already lost 3 crucial basketballers to campaign-ending injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Donte DiVincenzo notched 28 points, and Josh Hart had 19 points, 15 boards, and 7 assists for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-seeded Knicks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Protect home court \ud83d\udd12<\/p>\n<p>JB 29 PTS | 5 AST | 3 STL <br \/>Donte 28 PTS | 6 REB <br \/>OG 28 PTS | 4 REB <br \/>Josh 19 PTS | 15 REB | 7 AST <br \/>Hartenstein 14 PTS | 12 REB | AST <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pPynqv8nw6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pPynqv8nw6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyknicks\/status\/1788405135435002121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tyrese Haliburton finished with 34 points, 9 assists and 6 boards for Indiana after the disappointing Game 1 but his team lost again.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mks_DK32e9E?si=nfMjTMfOqT2HlI7T\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jalen Brunson returned from a right-foot problem to notch 24 of his 29 points in the 2nd half, helping the NY Knicks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482883,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16971,17837,17172],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18386,18191,1067],"acf":{"announce":"New York won the 1st 2 matches from the matchup at home.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482884,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482882\/revisions\/482884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482882"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482882"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}