{"id":360807,"date":"2025-12-22T02:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360807\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T02:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:09:08","slug":"brunson-scores-47-knicks-overcome-towns-quiet-night-to-beat-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360807\/","title":{"rendered":"Brunson scores 47, Knicks overcome Towns\u2019 quiet night to beat Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Jalen Brunson scored a season-high 47 points and the <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> overcame Karl-Anthony Towns\u2019 quiet night to beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/miami-heat\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"miami-heat\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami Heat<\/a> 132-125 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>While Towns had just two points and six rebounds in 29 minutes, Mikal Bridges scored 24 points on six-of-seven three-point shooting, Josh Hart added 13 points and 10 rebounds and OG Anunoby scored all 18 of his points all in the second half. The Knicks improved to 20-8 overall and 14-2 at home.<\/p>\n<p>Kel\u2019el Ware had 28 points and 19 rebounds for Miami. The Heat have lost seven of eight to fall to 15-14.<\/p>\n<p>With Towns held scoreless over the first 25:02, and posting his fewest points since joining the Knicks, Brunson, Bridges and Anunoby picked up the slack, especially in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Ware made his fifth three-pointer, then Jaime Jaquez Jr. hit a pair of free throws that cut New York\u2019s lead to 120-118 with 3:12 left. But the Knicks answered with an 8-0 run, keyed by Bridges\u2019 three-pointer and three free throws from Brunson after a flagrant foul.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson and Bridges combined for 45 of New York\u2019s 66 first-half points, with Bridges scoring 18 points. The duo made nine of 13 first-half three-pointers, including Brunson\u2019s three-pointer with 0.8 seconds left in the second quarter that put New York up by four at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Heat: Host Toronto on Tuesday night<\/p>\n<p>Knicks: At Minnesota on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Jalen Brunson scored a season-high 47 points and the New York Knicks overcame Karl-Anthony Towns\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-360807","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\/360807","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=360807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}