{"id":491391,"date":"2026-02-22T05:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491391\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T05:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:07:07","slug":"new-york-knicks-overcome-an-18-point-deficit-in-the-4th-quarter-to-beat-houston-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491391\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Knicks overcome an 18-point deficit in the 4th quarter to beat Houston Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Karl-Anthony Towns scored 25 points, Jalen Bruson had 20 and the New York Knicks overcame an 18-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the Houston Rockets 108-106 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OG Anunoby added 20 points, and Mikal Bridges had 11 for New York. The Knicks bounced back two nights after a disappointing loss to Eastern Conference-leading Detroit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kevin Durant scored 30 points for Houston. Jabari Smith Jr. had 21, Alperen Sengun added 16, and Amen Thompson had 12 points and 10 rebounds. The Rockets had won five a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Knicks, who led by 13 points in the first half, began their comeback with an 8-1 run in the opening minutes of the fourth before Smith hit a 3-pointer in front of the Houston bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Houston missed eight consecutive shots and turned the ball over two times as the Knicks went on a 14-2 run, capped by Towns\u2019 layup off the glass that cut it to 99-97 with 3:32 left. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bruson\u2019s jumper tied it at 103 with 1:26 left. Durant then lost the ball near the sideline and committed an offensive foul on the following possession as he plowed into Brunson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brunson answered with a pullup jumper that gave New York the lead for good. Durant had a chance to win it at the buzzer, but missed a 40-footer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rockets: Host Utah on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Knicks: At Chicago on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Adry Torres, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Karl-Anthony Towns scored 25 points, Jalen Bruson had 20 and the New York Knicks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-491391","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\/491391","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=491391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}