{"id":492596,"date":"2025-05-11T02:28:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T06:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492596"},"modified":"2025-05-11T02:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T06:28:38","slug":"boston-crush-knicks-115-93-to-cut-the-deficit-in-the-series-to-2-1","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/boston-crush-knicks-115-93-to-cut-the-deficit-in-the-series-to-2-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston crush Knicks 115-93 to cut the deficit in the series to 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics bounced back in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, crushing the New York Knicks 115-93 to cut the series deficit to 2-1. After struggling with their shooting in the first two games, the Celtics rediscovered their 3-point rhythm, hitting 20 of 40 from deep\u2014led by Jayson Tatum and Payton Pritchard, who each nailed five triples.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Onto the next \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mTFGdqyAAk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mTFGdqyAAk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1921326419440771229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tatum looked more like his All-Star self with a well-rounded 22-point, nine-rebound, seven-assist performance, while Pritchard\u2019s 23 points off the bench provided a major spark. Boston built a 31-point lead and never gave the Knicks a chance to mount another second-half rally like they had in Games 1 and 2.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks were led by Jalen Brunson\u2019s 27 points and a strong double-double from Karl-Anthony Towns (21 points, 15 rebounds), but the rest of the team struggled to keep pace with Boston\u2019s hot shooting. New York now faces pressure to respond in Game 4 on Monday and avoid a series tie heading back to TD Garden for Game 5.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l79OY4UPsFM?si=NTuxs6iGMHOCV91_\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics bounced back in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, crushing the New York Knicks 115-93 to cut the series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":492597,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,17172],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18062,18191],"acf":{"announce":"Celtics will need another win in New York if they want to bring back the battle to TD Garden","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\/492596"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492598,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492596\/revisions\/492598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492596"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492596"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}