{"id":562407,"date":"2026-03-25T02:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T02:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/562407\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T02:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T02:35:08","slug":"knicks-121-116-pelicans-25-mar-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/562407\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks 121-116 Pelicans (25 Mar, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — \u2014 Jalen Brunson<\/a> scored 32 points, including 15 in the fourth quarter, and the New York Knicks<\/a> beat the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> 121-116 on Tuesday night for their seventh straight victory.<\/p>\n

Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> and OG Anunoby<\/a> each added 21 points for the Knicks (48-25), who pulled within percentage points of the Boston Celtics<\/a> (47-24) for second place in the Eastern Conference. Towns also grabbed 14 rebounds. <\/p>\n

But it was Brunson who made the difference for the Knicks in a game that was close throughout the second half. He scored 10 straight points for New York midway through the fourth quarter, including back-to-back baskets after the Pelicans had cut it to 109-107 with 4 1\/2 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n

Zion Williamson<\/a> scored 22 points and Jeremiah Fears<\/a> had 21 for the Pelicans, who have lost two in a row after a three-game winning streak. <\/p>\n

The Knicks made 15 of 21 shots (71.4%) in the first quarter, including 7 for 11 (63.6%) from 3-point range, and closed with a 15-0 run to take a 42-28 lead. New Orleans then opened the second with an 18-2 surge to go ahead 48-46 as the Knicks took more than five minutes to make their first basket. New York recovered to go back ahead 66-60 at halftime. <\/p>\n

The Knicks have feasted on a soft part of their schedule, beating Indiana twice, Utah, Brooklyn and Washington during the winning streak, which came entirely against teams with losing records. They will get tested on a four-game road trip that begins Thursday at Charlotte and features stops at NBA champion Oklahoma City and Houston.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Pelicans: Visit Detroit on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Knicks: Visit Charlotte on Thursday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — \u2014 Jalen Brunson scored 32 points, including 15 in the fourth quarter, and the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-562407","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\/562407","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=562407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}