NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Josh Hart scored a season-high 33 points on 12-of-13 shooting including 5 of 5 from 3-point range to lead the New York Knicks over the Indiana Pacers 136-110 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
OG Anunoby scored 26 points and Karl Anthony Towns added 22 points and 11 rebounds in the Knicks\u2019 fourth straight win.<\/p>\n
Jarace Walker led the Pacers with 16 points as Indiana\u2019s losing streak reached 14 games.<\/p>\n
Indiana led 12-11 when Anunoby scored the next eight points and the Knicks went ahead 38-34 after the first quarter.<\/p>\n
New York stayed in front until Jalen Slawson\u2019s 3-pointer gave the Pacers a 44-43 lead.<\/p>\n
Indiana increased its lead to 57-51, but the Knicks ended the quarter on a 21-7 streak and took a 72-64 halftime advantage.<\/p>\n
After the Pacers cut the deficit to six, the Knicks went on a 19-8 run to open a 94-77 lead.<\/p>\n
Indiana pulled within 99-89, but New York opened its lead to 105-91 entering the final quarter.<\/p>\n
The Knicks maintained a double-digit lead the rest of the way, increasing it to 27 points, 134-107, on Kevin McCullar Jr.\u2019s basket with 1:58 remaining.<\/p>\n
Jose Alvarado finished with 16 points and 10 assists for New York, while Mikal Bridges and Jordan Clarkson each scored 10 points.<\/p>\n
Obi Toppin had 15, Aaron Nesmith added 14 and Kobe Brown scored 13 for the Pacers.<\/p>\n
Jalen Brunson missed his first game since Jan. 17 due to right ankle injury management and a cervical strain on the right side of his neck.<\/p>\n
Indiana\u2019s Pascal Siakam missed his fifth straight game with a sprained right knee.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Pacers: Indiana hosts Portland on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Knicks: New York visits Brooklyn on Friday night.<\/p>\n
___<\/p>\n
AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n
Jeffrey Bernstein, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Josh Hart scored a season-high 33 points on 12-of-13 shooting including 5 of 5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-543617","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\/543617","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=543617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}