{"id":216297,"date":"2026-05-01T03:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216297\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T03:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:53:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-knicks-crush-hawks-in-record-setting-140-89-game-6-rout-to-end-atlantas-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216297\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Knicks Crush Hawks In Record Setting 140 89 Game 6 Rout To End Atlantas Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">OG Anunoby scored 29 points in 27 minutes, Karl-Anthony Towns had his second triple-double of the series and the New York Knicks had their biggest playoff victory in franchise history, overwhelming and eliminating the Atlanta Hawks 140-89 in Game 6 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Knicks broke several NBA records by halftime. Their 40-15 lead at the end of the first quarter marked the largest of the shot clock era. Their 47-point halftime lead was the biggest in playoff history.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New York\u2019s 51-point win tied for the sixth-largest margin of victory in NBA postseason history.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Dyson Daniels and Mitchell Robinson were ejected after fighting following a pair of free throws from Anunoby that gave the Knicks a 50-point lead in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Knicks exceeded 100 points with 8:21 remaining in the third quarter. New York\u2019s starters were done for the night with 2:45 remaining in the third.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anunoby scored 26 of his points in the first half. Mikal Bridges finished with 24. Towns, five days after becoming the fourth Knicks player with a playoff triple-double, had 12 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Hawks were 12 for 39 from the field in the first half and 4 for 18 from 3-point range. Atlanta had 14 turnovers in the first half.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Jalen Johnson led the Hawks with 21 points. Nickeil Alexander-Walker, CJ McCollum and Jonathan Kuminga each had 11 points.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Knicks will face the winner of the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers series in the Eastern Conference semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OG Anunoby scored 29 points in 27 minutes, Karl-Anthony Towns had his second triple-double of the series and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-216297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216297","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=216297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}