{"id":405032,"date":"2026-01-12T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/405032\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:44:11","slug":"knicks-end-trail-blazers-5-game-winning-streak-with-123-114-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/405032\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks end Trail Blazers\u2019 5-game winning streak with 123-114 victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Jalen Brunson had 26 points and the New York Knicks snapped the Portland Trail Blazers\u2019 five-game winning streak with a 123-114 victory Sunday in Portland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">OG Anunoby added 24 points, Karl-Anthony Towns had 20 points and 11 rebounds and Mikal Bridges finished with 18 points, six assists and six rebounds. The Knicks had lost five of their previous six games. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KZQIINQ3Q5GANM7JBIQNRSSLLI.jpg\" alt=\"Portland Trail Blazers guard Shaedon Sharpe, right, looks to pass away from New York Knicks guard Miles McBride during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Portland, Ore.\" class=\"width_full\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4830 \/ 3220;width:100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Portland Trail Blazers guard Shaedon Sharpe, right, looks to pass away from New York Knicks guard Miles McBride during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__image-by color_dgray f_s_xxs m-none\">Amanda Loman \/ AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Deni Avdija 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<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The Knicks led by 10 points in the third quarter, but Portland tied it at 92 on a dunk from Robert Williams III early in the fourth and pulled in front on Avdija\u2019s floater and free throw. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The teams traded the lead until Miles McBride\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<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The Knicks saw the return of starting forward Josh Hart, who hasn\u2019t played since injuring his ankle on Christmas Day. He finished with 18 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The Blazers got back guard Jrue Holiday, 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<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">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\u2019 basket. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Jalen Brunson\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<p>Up Next<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Knicks: At Sacramento on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Trail Blazers: At Golden State on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson had 26 points and the New York Knicks snapped the Portland Trail Blazers\u2019 five-game winning streak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82,161170],"class_list":["post-405032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-sports-trail-blazers-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405032","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=405032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}