“To be down 18, 19, 20 – whatever we were down – and to find a way to come back and win, I take my hat off to my group.”<\/p>\n
Knicks guard Jalen Brunson scored 17 of his 38 points in the final eight minutes of regulation time and overtime, while Mikal Bridges finished with 18 points and Karl-Anthony Towns 13 points and 13 rebounds.<\/p>\n
“The team’s relentless. You never know whose night it’s going to be, but we’re going to figure it out,” guard Miles McBride said.<\/p>\n
Donovan Mitchell led the scoring for the Cavaliers with 29 points, although only three came in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
It was their 11th game in 21 days, while the Knicks had not played for nine days.<\/p>\n
“We should have won the game,” Mitchell said.<\/p>\n
“We’re up 22 with God knows how much time – got to win the game.”<\/p>\n
Game two of the best-of-seven series will take place at the same venue on Thursday (01:00 BST, Friday).<\/p>\n
The series winners will meet the Oklahoma City Thunder or the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals. The Spurs lead 1-0.<\/p>\n
They meet at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City on Wednesday (01:30 BST, Thursday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“To be down 18, 19, 20 – whatever we were down – and to find a way to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-458046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}