{"id":652802,"date":"2026-05-07T02:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652802\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:14:10","slug":"knicks-jalen-brunson-outlast-76ers-tyrese-maxey-in-nba-playoffs-game-2-live-updates-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652802\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks, Jalen Brunson outlast 76ers, Tyrese Maxey in NBA playoffs Game 2: Live updates, reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Knicks will take a 2-0 series lead to Philadelphia in the Eastern Conference semifinals, after a 108-102 win over the 76ers tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike their convincing Game 1 win on Monday \u2014 and despite the 76ers being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7258538\/2026\/05\/06\/76ers-joel-embiid-game-2-knicks-injury\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">without star center Joel Embiid<\/a> due to ankle and hip injuries \u2014 Game 2 was a tight contest until late in the fourth quarter, when Philly finally ran out of steam. <\/p>\n<p>Jalen Brunson came up clutch for the Knicks once again, with 8 of his 26 points coming in the final quarter to lead New York in scoring. <\/p>\n<p>Tyrese Maxey carried the load for the Sixers, also with 26 points, but it was Philly\u2019s 18 turnovers that really did the damage at Madison Square Garden. <\/p>\n<p>The series now heads to Philadelphia for Game 3 on Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks will take a 2-0 series lead to Philadelphia in the Eastern Conference semifinals, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-652802","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\/652802","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=652802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}