The New York Knicks have stored their season alive with a robust 111-94 win over the Indiana Pacers in Recreation 5 of the Jap Convention Finals on Friday morning.
With this victory, the Knicks now path 3-2 within the sequence, which is able to go to a sixth recreation on Saturday. The win additionally ended the Pacers’ four-game streak of profitable series-deciding matches — their greatest run in membership historical past.
Star guard Jalen Brunson led the Knicks with 32 factors, whereas Karl-Anthony Cities added 24 factors and 13 rebounds. The pair made historical past as solely the second duo ever to every rating 20 or extra factors within the first 5 video games of a Convention Finals. Brunson additionally had 5 assists, changing into simply the third participant to document ten video games with at the least 30 factors and 5 assists in a single playoff run earlier than reaching the NBA Finals.
Indiana had a tricky evening on offence, with just one starter, Pascal Siakam, scoring in double figures (15 factors). Tyrese Haliburton had a quiet recreation with simply 8 factors from 2-of-7 capturing. In complete, the Pacers’ beginning 5 scored solely 37 factors — the second-lowest by any crew’s starters on this 12 months’s playoffs.
The Knicks will now attempt to power a decisive Recreation 7 as they purpose to win multiple elimination recreation in a single postseason for the primary time since 2000.
