{"id":311372,"date":"2025-11-27T03:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311372\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T03:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:54:12","slug":"brunson-scores-33-as-knicks-rout-hornets-129-101-to-improve-to-3-1-in-nba-cup-group-play-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311372\/","title":{"rendered":"Brunson scores 33 as Knicks rout Hornets 129-101 to improve to 3-1 in NBA Cup group play"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Jalen Brunson<\/a> scored 33 points, Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> had 19 points and 10 rebounds and the New York Knicks<\/a> handed the Charlotte Hornets<\/a> their seventh straight loss 129-101 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Josh Hart<\/a> added 22 points for the Knicks, who made 13 of 26 shots from 3-point range to improve to 3-1 in NBA<\/a> Cup group play.<\/p>\n

Brandon Miller<\/a> had 18 points in his second game back from a shoulder injury for the Hornets, who\u2019ve lost 10 straight Cup games over the past three seasons and were eliminated from this year\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n

The Knicks played like a team eager to advance in the NBA Cup midseason tournament and improve their point differential, which was at minus-2 entering the night.<\/p>\n

New York coach Mike Brown didn’t take out his starters until 2:17 remained in the game and his team up by 24.<\/p>\n

The Knicks left no doubt about this one.<\/p>\n

They bolted to a 25-point halftime lead behind a balanced offensive attack as all five starters scored in double digits before halftime. New York shot 64% from the field and made 6 of 10 shots from beyond the arc before the break.<\/p>\n

Of the Knicks’ 72 first-half points, 68 came from their starters including 19 from Hart.<\/p>\n

Charlotte’s LaMelo Ball struggled to keep up with Brunson, who sent him to the bench in the third quarter with his fourth foul.<\/p>\n

Ball, the only player in Hornets history to ever sign a max contract that pays him $260 million, later was assessed a technical foul for arguing with officials and he finished with just 11 points on 4-of-14 shooting.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Brunson was greeted with repeated chants of \u201cMVP! MVP!\u201d from the crowd at Charlotte’s Spectrum Center. <\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Both teams play another NBA Cup group stage game on Friday night with New York hosting the Bucks<\/a> and Charlotte hosting the Bulls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Jalen Brunson scored 33 points, Karl-Anthony Towns had 19 points and 10 rebounds and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-311372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}