{"id":403853,"date":"2026-01-12T03:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/403853\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T03:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:30:07","slug":"new-york-knicks-end-portland-trail-blazers-five-game-winning-streak-with-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/403853\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Knicks end Portland Trail Blazers\u2019 five-game winning streak with victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Jalen Brunson<\/a> had 26 points and the New York Knicks<\/a> snapped the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a>\u2019 five-game winning streak with a 123-114 victory Sunday. <\/p>\n

OG Anunoby<\/a> added 24 points, Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> had 20 points and 11 rebounds and Mikal Bridges<\/a> finished with 18 points, six assists and six rebounds. The Knicks had lost five of their previous six games. <\/p>\n

Deni Avdija<\/a> had 25 points for the Blazers but in the final moments he grabbed his back after going up for a rebound and headed for the locker room. The extent of the injury was not known. <\/p>\n

The Knicks led by 10 points in the third quarter, but Portland tied it at 92 on a dunk from Robert Williams<\/a> III early in the fourth and pulled in front on Avdija\u2019s floater and free throw. <\/p>\n

The teams traded the lead until Miles McBride<\/a>\u2019s pullup 3-pointer put the Knicks on top 109-104 with 3:47 left. New York stretched the lead to 117-107 on Brunson\u2019s 3 with 2:23 to go and Portland couldn\u2019t catch up. <\/p>\n

The Knicks saw the return of starting forward Josh Hart<\/a>, who hasn\u2019t played since injuring his ankle on Christmas Day. He finished with 18 points. <\/p>\n

The Blazers got back guard Jrue Holiday<\/a>, who hasn\u2019t played since mid-November because of a calf injury. He averaged 16.7 points and a career-high 8.3 assists this season before the injury. Holiday had eight points in 16 minutes against the Knicks. <\/p>\n

The first half was close throughout, with Hart playing 14 minutes with 12 points in his return. The Knicks began to pull away in the final minutes, going up 60-54 on Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a>\u2019 basket. <\/p>\n

Jalen Brunson<\/a>\u2019s running layup put New York up 72-62 early in the third quarter but the Blazers chipped away, pulling within 90-88 early in the fourth. <\/p>\n

Up Next<\/p>\n

Knicks: At Sacramento on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: At Golden State on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n

Anne M. Peterson, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Jalen Brunson had 26 points and the New York Knicks snapped the Portland Trail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-403853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403853","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=403853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}