{"id":205766,"date":"2026-04-22T06:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205766\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:26:07","slug":"atlanta-new-york-tied-1-1-heading-to-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205766\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta, New York tied 1-1 heading to game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks<\/a> (53-29, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Atlanta Hawks<\/a> (46-36, sixth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Atlanta; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Hawks -1.5; over\/under is 216.5<\/p>\n

EASTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Series tied 1-1<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Hawks and the New York Knicks are in a 1-1 series tie in the Eastern Conference first round. The Hawks defeated the Knicks 107-106 in the last matchup on Tuesday. CJ McCollum<\/a> led the Hawks with 32 points, and Jalen Brunson<\/a> led the Knicks with 29.<\/p>\n

The Hawks are 27-25 against Eastern Conference opponents. Atlanta is 20-26 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n

The Knicks have gone 35-17 against Eastern Conference opponents. New York ranks fourth in the Eastern Conference with 45.6 rebounds per game led by Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> averaging 11.9.<\/p>\n

The 118.5 points per game the Hawks average are 8.4 more points than the Knicks give up (110.1). The Knicks are shooting 47.8% from the field, 0.4% higher than the 47.4% the Hawks’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jalen Johnson<\/a> is averaging 22.5 points, 10.3 rebounds and 7.9 assists for the Hawks. Nickeil Alexander-Walker<\/a> is averaging 20.2 points and 3.4 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Brunson is averaging 26 points and 6.8 assists for the Knicks. OG Anunoby<\/a> is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Hawks: 6-4, averaging 117.7 points, 43.6 rebounds, 27.6 assists, 8.7 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 48.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Knicks: 6-4, averaging 110.7 points, 43.0 rebounds, 25.8 assists, 8.1 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.2 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Hawks: Jock Landale: out (ankle).<\/p>\n

Knicks: None listed.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks (53-29, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Atlanta Hawks (46-36, sixth in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1262,44055,54398,4777,59642,1555,4568,9,11,1104,10,66820,6474],"class_list":{"0":"post-205766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-cj-mccollum","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-jalen-brunson","12":"tag-jalen-johnson","13":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","14":"tag-national-basketball-association","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-knicks","18":"tag-new-york-news","19":"tag-nickeil-alexander-walker","20":"tag-og-anunoby"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}