{"id":429366,"date":"2026-05-07T04:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/429366\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T04:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:06:12","slug":"karl-anthony-towns-rescues-stuck-ball-in-funny-moment-during-76ers-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/429366\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl-Anthony Towns rescues stuck ball in funny moment during 76ers-Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tension during <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/summary\/2977924\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Game 2;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Game 2&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Game 2<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia 76ers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Philadelphia 76ers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/new-york-knicks\/18\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Knicks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Knicks&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Knicks<\/a> series briefly melted away in a lighthearted moment during the third quarter at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>The ball got stuck in the framing below the shot clock with 7:54 to go in the third, with the Sixers leading 74-71. Philadelphia big man Andre Drummond, listed at 6-foot-11, was handed a floor mop but his attempts to dislodge the ball with it proved to be unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Knicks big man Karl-Anthony Towns, listed at 7-foot, took the mop from Drummond and managed to dislodge the ball on his first attempt, to great cheers from the Madison Square Garden crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:76ers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;76ers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">76ers<\/a>, playing without Joel Embiid, led 90-89 after three quarters but the Knicks went on to win 108-102. New York now holds a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2026\/05\/06\/karl-anthony-towns-rescues-ball-76ers-knicks\/89971067007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Karl-Anthony Towns saves ball in funny moment during 76ers vs Knicks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Karl-Anthony Towns saves ball in funny moment during 76ers vs Knicks&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Karl-Anthony Towns saves ball in funny moment during 76ers vs Knicks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tension during Game 2 of the Philadelphia 76ers vs. New York Knicks series briefly melted away in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[193618,85,46,32008,140622,129043,9243,3987,201454,105],"class_list":["post-429366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-andre-drummond","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-joel-embiid","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}