{"id":82893,"date":"2025-12-14T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/82893\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T09:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:08:11","slug":"jalen-brunsons-40-points-lead-knicks-past-orlando-magic-in-nba-cup-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/82893\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson&#8217;s 40 points lead Knicks past Orlando Magic in NBA Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Jalen Brunson scored at least 30 points for the fourth consecutive game, his season-high 40 leading the Knicks past the Orlando Magic 132-120 on Saturday and putting New York in the NBA Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks, who have won five in a row and nine of 10, will play San Antonio on Tuesday night for the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Brunson also had eight assists and made 16 of 27 shots, including a 3-pointer in the third quarter after Orlando\u2019s Anthony Black fell backward onto the floor. Karl-Anthony Towns had 29 points and OG Anunoby scored 24 for the Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Suggs scored 25 of his 26 points in the first half for the Magic before leaving in the fourth quarter because of a sore left hip. Paolo Banchero added 25 points and Desmond Bane scored 18.<\/p>\n<p>SPURS 111, THUNDER 109<\/p>\n<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama returned from a 12-game absence with 22 points and nine rebounds, giving San Antonio a surge and Oklahoma City just its second loss.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs play the New York Knicks in Tuesday night\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma\u2019s last defeat was Nov. 5 at Portland, and the Thunder carried a 16-game winning streak into this game. They now are 24-2, the second-best start behind only the 25-1 record by Golden State in 2015-16.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Thunder\u2019s second loss in a row in Las Vegas. They also <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bucks-thunder-nba-cup-e2192d834aecde6aac04cb2058b7d03e?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:lost last year\u2019s final to Milwaukee 97-81;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">lost last year\u2019s final to Milwaukee 97-81<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama, who received \u201cM-V-P\u201d chants from the pro-Spurs crowd, had a plus-21 rating in 21 minutes. Teammate Devin Vassell scored 23 points and De\u2019Aaron Fox and Stephon Castle each scored 22.<\/p>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder with 29 points, Chet Holmgren and Jalen Williams each totaled 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Jalen Brunson scored at least 30 points for the fourth consecutive game, his season-high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5815,45901,45900,5798,38345,35691,17006,5803,38341,17007,5824,12035,35702,35707,5816,139,141,1239,140,5799,6491,14597,35696,38344,45902,45899,38420],"class_list":["post-82893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-anthony-black","tag-chet-holmgren","tag-deaaron-fox","tag-desmond-bane","tag-devin-vassell","tag-golden-state","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-jalen-suggs","tag-jalen-williams","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-knicks","tag-las-vegas","tag-milwaukee","tag-og-anunoby","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlando-news","tag-paolo-banchero","tag-points","tag-portland","tag-san-antonio","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-spurs","tag-stephon-castle","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}