{"id":534976,"date":"2026-03-14T02:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T02:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534976\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T02:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T02:20:08","slug":"brunson-scores-29-anunoby-adds-25-as-knicks-get-past-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534976\/","title":{"rendered":"Brunson scores 29, Anunoby adds 25 as Knicks get past Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Jalen Brunson finished with 29 points and nine assists, OG Anunoby added 25 points and eight rebounds, and the New York Knicks<\/a> beat the Indiana Pacers<\/a> 101-92 on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Mitchell Robinson had a career-high 22 rebounds to go with 12 points as last year’s Eastern Conference runner-up\u00a0won its second straight\u00a0and its sixth game in nine contests. The Knicks are still fighting to earn a top-four seed and home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Jarace Walker scored 18 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead the Pacers. Aaron Nesmith had 12 points as injury-riddled Indiana lost its 12th straight. Ivica Zubac added 11 points and eight rebounds in his second game with Indiana\u00a0since being acquired in a February trade.<\/p>\n

Pacers coach Rick Carlisle insisted before the game that his short-handed defending Eastern Conference champions were still playing hard despite having the league’s worst record and already being eliminated from the playoffs.<\/p>\n

And though this game lacked the intensity of last season’s surprise conference finals, the fight still showed.<\/p>\n

Indiana rallied from a 14-point, third-quarter deficit to take a 74-73 lead when Nesmith barely beat the shot clock on a 3-pointer with 7 seconds left in the quarter. Jordan Clarkson then beat the third-quarter buzzer with a 3 that withstood a replay review, to give the Knicks a 76-74 lead.<\/p>\n

It looked like the Knicks might finally pull away when they opened up an 83-77 lead early in the fourth, but Indiana charged back to 90-88 on Walker’s two free throws with 2:56 to play. Then New York reeled off seven straight points to close out the victory on a night New York was just 8 of 28 on 3s.<\/p>\n

Knicks: Host Golden State on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Pacers: Visit Milwaukee on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Jalen Brunson finished with 29 points and nine assists, OG Anunoby added 25 points and eight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-534976","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\/534976","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=534976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}