{"id":244936,"date":"2025-10-23T01:56:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/244936\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T01:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:56:23","slug":"knicks-start-mike-brown-era-with-hard-fought-win-over-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/244936\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks start Mike Brown era with hard-fought win over Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Knicks started the Mike Brown era on a solid note.<\/p>\n<p>New York tipped off its season with a thrilling 119-111 win over the Cavaliers on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden behind a full team effort. <\/p>\n<p>New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson goes up for a shot as Cleveland Cavaliers center Evan Mobley defends in the first half at Madison Square Garden in New York, Wednesday, October 22, 2025.  JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n<p>New York Knicks\u2019 Karl-Anthony Towns slams the ball in the first half at Madison Square Garden in New York, Wednesday, October 22, 2025.  JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n<p>New York Knicks Head Coach Mike Brown reacts on the sideline in the first half at Madison Square Garden in New York, Wednesday, October 22, 2025.  JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n<p>Five Knicks scored double-digit points as OG Anunoby and Jalen Brunson led the way with 24 and 23 points, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>The Knicks led by 15 points at halftime but watched that lead evaporate in the third quarter as the Cavs outscored New York, 37-22, in the frame, as the game was all even headed into the fourth. <\/p>\n<p>But the Knicks remained unfazed, going on a 14-2 run to start the fourth before a timeout with 8:44 left. The two teams traded body blows down the stretch as the Cavaliers made a few runs of their own to make things interesting, but the Knicks ultimately won their first game with their new head coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks started the Mike Brown era on a solid note. New York tipped off its season with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[8174,36783,36782,6043,62394,355,361,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-244936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","9":"tag-jalen-brunson","10":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","11":"tag-mike-brown","12":"tag-miles-mcbride","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}