{"id":661905,"date":"2026-05-24T07:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661905\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T07:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:20:08","slug":"nba-cleveland-cavaliers-108-121-new-york-knicks-jalen-brunson-helps-knicks-into-3-0-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661905\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Cleveland Cavaliers 108-121 New York Knicks: Jalen Brunson helps Knicks into 3-0 lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The New York Knicks swept aside the Cleveland Cavaliers to move within one win of their first NBA Finals since 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 121-108 victory at Rocket Arena means they lead the Eastern Conference finals 3-0 and can wrap up the series at the same venue on Monday (01:00 BST, Tuesday).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No NBA team has overcome a 3-0 deficit in a play-off series in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Knicks are on a franchise-record run of 10 straight play-off victories, winning by an average margin of 22.5 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jalen Brunson scored 30 points and Mikal Bridges 22 for the third seeds, who never trailed against the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks swept aside the Cleveland Cavaliers to move within one win of their first NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-661905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661905","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=661905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}