{"id":375891,"date":"2025-12-28T11:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/375891\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:02:08","slug":"knicks-128-125-hawks-28-dec-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/375891\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks 128-125 Hawks (28 Dec, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA — \u2014 Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> scored a season-high 36 points with 16 rebounds, Jalen Brunson<\/a> had 34 points and the New York Knicks<\/a> survived Atlanta\u2019s late comeback attempt to beat the slumping Hawks 128-125 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The Hawks lost their sixth straight to wrap up a crushing 0-5 homestand. Atlanta is 5-11 overall at home.<\/p>\n

Towns made 17 of 18 free throws while helping the Knicks take a dominant 56-38 advantage in rebounds.<\/p>\n

Nickeil Alexander-Walker<\/a>, who scored 25 points, had a steal and basket with 48 seconds remaining to give the Hawks a 125-124 lead. OG Anunoby<\/a> made two free throws as the Knicks reclaimed the lead and, after he stole the ball following Trae Young<\/a>‘s pass, padded the lead with two more free throws.<\/p>\n

Onyeka Okongwu<\/a> led the Hawks with 31 points and 14 rebounds. Jalen Johnson<\/a> recorded his 13th consecutive double-double with 20 points, 12 assists and nine rebounds before fouling out in the final minute.<\/p>\n

The Knicks held out forward Josh Hart<\/a>, who suffered a right ankle sprain in Thursday’s 126-124<\/a> win over Cleveland. Guard Deuce McBride (left ankle sprain) also was inactive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope I don’t have to increase guys’ minutes,\u201d said Knicks coach Mike Brown before the game. Rookie Mohamed Diawara<\/a> of France was the fill-in starter for Hart.<\/p>\n

Young, who had 30 points and seven assists in Friday night’s 126-111 home loss<\/a> to Miami, scored only nine points with 10 assists while playing back-to-back nights for the first time since missing 21 games<\/a> with a right MCL knee sprain.<\/p>\n

Anunoby had 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Knicks, who have won nine of 11 including two straight.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Knicks: Visit New Orleans on Monday.<\/p>\n

Hawks: Visit Oklahoma City on Monday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA — \u2014 Karl-Anthony Towns scored a season-high 36 points with 16 rebounds, Jalen Brunson had 34 points…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-375891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375891","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=375891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}