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West Australian
37 minutes ago
- Sport
- West Australian
New York Knicks keep Eastern Conference series alive
The Eastern Conference series finale is alive and kicking with the New York Knicks beating the Indiana Pacers by 17 points to reduce the deficit to 3-2 in Game 5. The Knicks won 111-94 on Thursday night, with Jalen Brunson scoring 32 points and Karl-Anthony Towns adding 24 points and 13 rebounds despite a bruised left knee. The Knicks won on their home floor for the first time in the series and prevented the Pacers from earning the second NBA Finals trip in franchise history. Indiana will try again Saturday night at home. Knicks fans chanted "Knicks in 7! Knicks in 7!" in the final minutes as New York extended their first trip to the conference finals since 2000 and kept alive hopes of becoming the 14th team to overcome a 3-1 deficit to win a series. No team has won a conference finals series after dropping the first two games at home. Two nights after giving up 43 points in the first quarter, the Knicks held the Pacers to just 45 in the first half and limited Tyrese Haliburton, who had 32 points, 15 assists and 12 rebounds Tuesday, to just eight points and six assists. Brunson, outplayed by his point guard counterpart Tuesday, rebounded with his franchise-record 21st postseason game of 30 or more points with the Knicks. Bennedict Mathurin scored 23 points off the bench for the Pacers, who had won six straight road games. Indiana shot just 40.5 per cent from the field in by far their lowest-scoring game of the postseason. Brunson scored 14 in the first quarter as the Knicks held a 27-23 lead, giving up 20 fewer points than in the first quarter of Game 4, when they trailed 43-35. Towns, who was doubtful to play after hurting his left knee in a collision late in Game 4, picked up the slack with 12 in the second, when Brunson went scoreless. Brunson came back with the Knicks' first eight of the third quarter as they opened a 20-point lead midway through the period. The Pacers cut that in half before New York regained control with a 12-0 burst, highlighted by Brunson's four-point play, to make it 86-64.
New York Post
37 minutes ago
- Sport
- New York Post
Mitchell Robinson gave Knicks spark they needed in Game 5
The applause was thunderous when Mitchell Robinson was announced as a starter to the Garden crowd for the first time in this year's playoffs. With Karl-Anthony Towns scoring 24 points after coming into Thursday night's game listed as questionable due to a knee contusion suffered late in Game 4 two nights earlier, Robinson also contributed a handful of key plays at both ends of the floor to help the Knicks keep their season alive with a 111-94 victory in Game 5 at MSG. Advertisement Robinson, who replaced Josh Hart in the starting lineup to play alongside Towns in the middle two games in Indiana, finished with six points, six rebounds, two blocked shots and one steal in 20 minutes. 3 Myles Turner and Mitchell Robinson battle for a rebound during the first quarter of the Knicks' 111-94 Game 5 win over Pacers on May 29, 2025. Jason Szenes / New York Post Those defensive stats all occurred within a few Indiana possessions in the middle of the third quarter — a rejection of a Tyrese Haliburton drive, another block against Thomas Bryant and a steal off a bad pass by Andrew Nembhard that helped key a 10-0 run that led to a 72-52 lead. Advertisement Robinson also scooped up an offensive rebound for a put-back during that sequence. Asked before the game about sticking with the same lineup for a third straight game, coach Tom Thibodeau replied, 'It's just matchups and what's going on in the game. Sometimes it's impacted by foul trouble as well.' Follow The Post's coverage of the Knicks in the 2025 NBA Playoffs Sports+ subscribers: Sign up for Inside the Knicks to get daily newsletter coverage and join Expert Take for insider texts about the series. To wit, Towns netted 13 points in the second quarter to register 17 and 10 boards by halftime, but KAT picked up his fourth foul with the Knicks up 72-52 with 6:24 left in the third. Advertisement Pacers coach Rick Carlisle attempted to take advantage by intentionally fouling Robinson with the Hack-a-Mitch strategy employed by the Pistons and the Celtics in the first two rounds. Robinson has shot just 22-for-56 (39.3 percent) from the stripe in 17 postseason appearances this spring. 3 Miles McBride greets Mitchell Robinson during the first quarter of the Knicks' Game 5 win over the Pacers. Jason Szenes / New York Post Robinson missed two free throws with 4:17 left in the quarter, and he was replaced by Precious Achiuwa due to Towns' foul trouble. Advertisement Achiuwa chipped in a bucket in traffic during a 12-0 run that helped stretch the lead to 17 entering the final period. 3 Mitchell Robinson celebrates during the third quarter of the Knicks' Game 5 win over the Pacers. AP Robinson has logged fewer minutes than Hart in each of the three games since the switch by a sizable average of 12 minutes.
France 24
39 minutes ago
- Sport
- France 24
Brunson, Towns keep Knicks alive in Pacers rout
Trailing 3-1 in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals, the Knicks roared back to life in front of a star-studded Madison Square Garden crowd with a wire-to-wire win that sets up a game six in Indianapolis on Saturday. Knicks talisman Brunson was once again the standout performer for New York, finishing with 32 points including four three-pointers. Towns, whose presence in the New York line-up was only confirmed shortly before tip-off following a left knee injury in game four, was also a pivotal figure with 24 points and 13 rebounds. "We were just able to get stops early and we would convert. We just found a way," Brunson told TNT television. "I just felt like we played better. We played to our standards. Give them credit for the way they played, but we played Knicks basketball tonight." Towns said there was never any chance of him not lining up. "It was do or die -- nothing was going to stop me from playing this game," Towns said. Brunson set the tone from the get-go, rattling in 14 points as the Knicks sprinted into an early 23-13 lead in the first quarter. Although Indiana came back to cut the lead to 27-23 at the end of the first, the Knicks continued to control possession, unsettling Indiana with the speed of their fast break offense and neutralising Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton. 'A bad start' New York led 56-45 at half time with Haliburton scoring just four points in the first half. Haliburton would go on to finish with a series-low eight points, shooting just two-of-seven from the field. The Pacers had staged an epic comeback to take the opening game of the series in New York last week, overturning a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit to stun the Knicks. There was a hint that another fightback might be in the offing when Indiana slashed a 20-point New York lead to just 10 points in the third quarter. But the Knicks regrouped and stretched their lead once more before closing out the win to keep the series alive. Pacers coach Rick Carlisle blamed his team's failure to threaten the Knicks -- it was the first time in the series Indiana had been restricted to less than 100 points -- on their sluggish start. "We didn't play with the level of force that we needed to," Carlisle said. "We lost the rebound battle, we lost the turnover battle and we didn't shoot well. "They had a lot to do with that, so give them credit, but we're going to have to play much better. "To start the game we didn't have the right level of attitude necessary in this environment. It was a bad start. We never had a lead in the game. There were a multitude of things that were going wrong. "There were little stretches where we got traction, but it was never enough."
NBC News
42 minutes ago
- Sport
- NBC News
Brunson, Towns carry Knicks to 111-94 victory, cutting Pacers' series lead to 3-2
NEW YORK — Jalen Brunson scored 32 points, Karl-Anthony Towns added 24 points and 13 rebounds despite a bruised left knee and the New York Knicks stayed alive in the Eastern Conference finals by beating the Indiana Pacers 111-94 on Thursday night in Game 5. The Knicks won on their home floor for the first time in the series and prevented the Pacers from earning the second NBA Finals trip in franchise history. Indiana will try again Saturday night at home. Knicks fans chanted 'Knicks in 7! Knicks in 7!' in the final minutes as New York extended its first trip to the conference finals since 2000 and kept alive hopes of becoming the 14th team to overcome a 3-1 deficit to win a series. No team has won a conference finals series after dropping the first two games at home. Two nights after giving up 43 points in the first quarter, the Knicks held the Pacers to just 45 in the first half and limited Tyrese Haliburton, who had 32 points, 15 assists and 12 rebounds Tuesday, to just eight points and six assists. Brunson, outplayed by his point guard counterpart Tuesday, rebounded with his franchise-record 20th postseason game of 30 or more points with the Knicks. Bennedict Mathurin scored 23 points off the bench for the Pacers, who had won six straight road games. Indiana shot just 40.5% from the field in by far its lowest-scoring game of the postseason. Brunson scored 14 in the first quarter as the Knicks held a 27-23 lead — giving up 20 fewer points than in the first quarter of Game 4, when they trailed 43-35. Towns, who was questionable to play after hurting his left knee in a collision late in Game 4, picked up the slack with 12 in the second, when Brunson was scoreless. Brunson came back with the Knicks' first eight of the third quarter as they opened a 20-point lead midway through the period. The Pacers cut that in half before New York regained control with a 12-0 burst, highlighted by Brunson's four-point play, to make it 86-64.
Perth Now
an hour ago
- Sport
- Perth Now
New York Knicks keep Eastern Conference series alive
The Eastern Conference series finale is alive and kicking with the New York Knicks beating the Indiana Pacers by 17 points to reduce the deficit to 3-2 in Game 5. The Knicks won 111-94 on Thursday night, with Jalen Brunson scoring 32 points and Karl-Anthony Towns adding 24 points and 13 rebounds despite a bruised left knee. The Knicks won on their home floor for the first time in the series and prevented the Pacers from earning the second NBA Finals trip in franchise history. Indiana will try again Saturday night at home. Knicks fans chanted "Knicks in 7! Knicks in 7!" in the final minutes as New York extended their first trip to the conference finals since 2000 and kept alive hopes of becoming the 14th team to overcome a 3-1 deficit to win a series. No team has won a conference finals series after dropping the first two games at home. Two nights after giving up 43 points in the first quarter, the Knicks held the Pacers to just 45 in the first half and limited Tyrese Haliburton, who had 32 points, 15 assists and 12 rebounds Tuesday, to just eight points and six assists. Brunson, outplayed by his point guard counterpart Tuesday, rebounded with his franchise-record 21st postseason game of 30 or more points with the Knicks. Bennedict Mathurin scored 23 points off the bench for the Pacers, who had won six straight road games. Indiana shot just 40.5 per cent from the field in by far their lowest-scoring game of the postseason. Brunson scored 14 in the first quarter as the Knicks held a 27-23 lead, giving up 20 fewer points than in the first quarter of Game 4, when they trailed 43-35. Towns, who was doubtful to play after hurting his left knee in a collision late in Game 4, picked up the slack with 12 in the second, when Brunson went scoreless. Brunson came back with the Knicks' first eight of the third quarter as they opened a 20-point lead midway through the period. The Pacers cut that in half before New York regained control with a 12-0 burst, highlighted by Brunson's four-point play, to make it 86-64.
