{"id":295046,"date":"2025-11-20T08:09:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295046\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:09:32","slug":"brunson-leads-knicks-over-mavericks-in-return-from-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295046\/","title":{"rendered":"Brunson leads Knicks over Mavericks in return from ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/new-york-knicks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"new-york-knicks\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Knicks<\/a> All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/jalen-brunson\/8d3edba8-9004-4199-9328-cc2208e8b0d3\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"8d3edba8-9004-4199-9328-cc2208e8b0d3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jalen Brunson<\/a> scored a game-high 28 points in a\u00a0113-111 win over the Dallas Mavericks\u00a0on Wednesday night after sitting out two games with a grade 1 ankle sprain.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson was hurt on Nov. 12 in a\u00a0124-107 home loss\u00a0to Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels great. I never want to take any opportunity for granted,\u201d Brunson said. \u201cJust happy to be back out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brunson spent his first four NBA seasons with the Mavericks before leaving for New York in free agency in July 2022. This was his fourth game against Dallas in seven opportunities and first win. He missed the other three with injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson\u2019s 27.0 points per game against the Mavericks is his highest average against any opponent.<\/p>\n<p>The victory didn&#8217;t come easy. Brunson hit the second of two free throws with 3.8 seconds to play after missing the first, giving New York the 113-111 lead. Dallas&#8217; Brandon Williams drove for what appeared to be the tying basket with 0.7 seconds left but was called for charging into Landry Shamet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChaos,\u201d Brunson said. \u201cAt the same time, found a way to win. It was ugly. When you win ugly, it\u2019s a sign of a team learning, getting better. No matter what the situation is, we\u2019ve got to find a way to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 New York Knicks All-Star Jalen Brunson scored a game-high 28 points in a\u00a0113-111 win over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-295046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}