Clarkson scored a season-high 25 points on 9-for-17 shooting from the field and 5-for-10 from 3-point range. <\/p>\n
The Knicks outscored the Cavaliers by 13 points when he was on the floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After the Knicks came out \u201cstuck in the mud,\u201d in the first quarter, as coach Mike Brown put it, they trailed by 15 going into the second quarter. <\/p>\n
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New York Knicks guard Jordan Clarkson reacts after he hits a 3-point shot during the fourth quarter on Dec. 25, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
And Clarkson promptly scored 11 points in the period, part of a huge 24-3 run that brought the Knicks right back into the game and gave them a six-point lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At one point, Clarkson drilled a 3, stole the ball from Donovan Mitchell, dribbled down the other end of the floor and nailed another 3 in transition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe times we were dead in the water, especially early in the game, he was the one guy that was keeping us in it,\u201d Brown said. \u201cFirst with his offense, he was really, really good for us offensively. And then defensively, he was good too.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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And then later, he was on the floor for most of the fourth quarter when the Knicks overcame a 17-point deficit. Seven more of Clarkson\u2019s points came in that fourth quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was part of a bench unit \u2014 along with Tyler Kolek and Mitchell Robinson \u2014 that helped change the course of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody believes in each other, no matter who is out on the floor,\u201d Brown said. \u201cYou feel that type of belief from your teammates, from your peers. Man, the sky is the limit, because guys in the NBA are talented.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Clarkson\u2019s microwave scoring ability allows him to make immediate impact on the floor.\u00a0 The Knicks needed every…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1266,28586,21,9,11,1104,10,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-81210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","9":"tag-jordan-clarkson","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81210","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=81210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}