New York Knicks remove Detroit Pistons from NBA playoffs – NBC New York
Jalen Brunson made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 4.3 seconds left and completed with 40 factors to steer the New York Knicks to a 116-113 win over the Detroit Pistons on Thursday evening and into the second spherical of the NBA playoffs.
“He’s at his greatest when his greatest is required and he’s completed all of it yr,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau mentioned. “That’s what makes him particular.”
Detroit did not get a shot off to doubtlessly tie the sport and ship it to extra time as a result of Malik Beasley fumbled a cross with four-tenths of a second left.
The third-seeded Knicks will face second-seeded Boston, capturing to advance to the Jap Convention finals for the primary time since 2000.
Mikal Bridges had 25 factors and OG Anunoby added 22 for the Knicks, who closed the sport out with clutch photographs and stops after shedding an 11-point lead within the fourth quarter and a 15-point benefit within the second quarter.
The sixth-seeded Pistons had an unprecedented turnaround through the common season and ended the NBA’s longest playoff shedding streak of their first postseason look since 2019, however broke one other league mark with a tenth straight setback at house courting to 2008.
“We did so many issues properly and gave ourselves an opportunity,” Detroit coach J.B. Bickerstaff mentioned. “They simply made yet one more play than we did.”
Detroit’s Cade Cunningham had 23 factors, eight assists and 7 rebounds. Cunningham was 0 for 8 on 3-pointers and his backcourt mate Tim Hardaway Jr. was 1 of 6 past the arc and scored seven factors.
