{"id":237753,"date":"2026-05-20T06:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237753\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:51:14","slug":"new-york-takes-1-0-lead-into-game-2-against-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237753\/","title":{"rendered":"New York takes 1-0 lead into game 2 against Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (52-30, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. New York Knicks<\/a> (53-29, third in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

New York; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Knicks -6.5; over\/under is 214.5<\/p>\n

EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: Knicks lead series 1-0<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Knicks host the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference finals with a 1-0 lead in the series. The Knicks won the last matchup 115-104 in overtime on Wednesday, led by 38 points from Jalen Brunson<\/a>. Donovan Mitchell<\/a> led the Cavaliers with 29.<\/p>\n

The Knicks are 35-17 against Eastern Conference opponents. New York is 9-4 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are 33-19 in conference games. Cleveland ranks seventh in the Eastern Conference shooting 36.0% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

The Knicks’ 14.2 made 3-pointers per game this season are the same per game average that the Cavaliers give up. The Cavaliers average 14.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.4 more makes per game than the Knicks give up.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> is averaging 20.1 points and 11.9 rebounds for the Knicks. Brunson is averaging 28.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Mitchell is scoring 27.9 points per game and averaging 4.5 rebounds for the Cavaliers. Max Strus<\/a> is averaging 2.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Knicks: 8-2, averaging 120.6 points, 44.9 rebounds, 26.0 assists, 8.8 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 51.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 101.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: 5-5, averaging 109.0 points, 42.7 rebounds, 22.8 assists, 8.0 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 45.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.1 points.<\/p>\n

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

Cavaliers: 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":"Cleveland Cavaliers (52-30, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. New York Knicks (53-29, third 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":[1266,9411,54398,4777,1555,58960,4568,9,11,1104,10],"class_list":["post-237753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-event_preview","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-max-strus","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237753","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=237753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237753\/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=237753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}