{"id":187877,"date":"2026-05-09T07:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187877\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:22:13","slug":"brunson-and-the-knicks-aim-to-clinch-series-against-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187877\/","title":{"rendered":"Brunson and the Knicks aim to clinch series against Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks<\/a> (53-29, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> (45-37, seventh in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Philadelphia<\/a>; Sunday, 3:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Knicks -1.5; over\/under is 212.5<\/p>\n

EASTERN CONFERENCE SECOND ROUND: Knicks lead series 3-0<\/p>\n

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BOTTOM LINE: The New York Knicks look to clinch the series over the Philadelphia 76ers in game four of the Eastern Conference second round. The Knicks defeated the 76ers 108-94 in the last matchup on Friday. Jalen Brunson<\/a> led the Knicks with 33 points, and Kelly Oubre Jr.<\/a> led the 76ers with 22.<\/p>\n

The 76ers are 9-7 against division opponents. Philadelphia ranks sixth in the Eastern Conference with 16.9 fast break points per game led by VJ Edgecombe<\/a> averaging 8.0.<\/p>\n

The Knicks are 14-3 against opponents from the Atlantic Division. New York is third in the Eastern Conference allowing just 110.1 points while holding opponents to 46.0% shooting.<\/p>\n

The 76ers average 12.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.6 fewer makes per game than the Knicks give up (13.9). The Knicks average 14.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.8 more makes per game than the 76ers allow.<\/p>\n

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TOP PERFORMERS: Quentin Grimes<\/a> is scoring 13.4 points per game and averaging 3.6 rebounds for the 76ers. Tyrese Maxey<\/a> is averaging 24.4 points and 4.2 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Brunson is scoring 26.0 points per game and averaging 3.3 rebounds for the Knicks. OG Anunoby<\/a> is averaging 2.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: 76ers: 4-6, averaging 102.0 points, 38.8 rebounds, 21.0 assists, 5.4 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Knicks: 7-3, averaging 115.6 points, 43.9 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 8.9 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 50.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 100.6 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: 76ers: None listed.<\/p>\n

Knicks: OG Anunoby: day to day (hamstring).<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks (53-29, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (45-37, seventh in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15351,47168,23936,39663,81631,69,1002,71,70,23929,23931,29845,12920,10795],"class_list":["post-187877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-eastern-conference","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-kelly-oubre-jr","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-og-anunoby","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-points-per-game","tag-quentin-grimes","tag-the-76ers","tag-tyrese-maxey","tag-vj-edgecombe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}