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The Knicks got six first-quarter three-pointers from Deuce McBride and never looked back, dismissing a short-handed Raptors side in a dominant 145-101 win in Toronto on Wednesday night as Mitchell Robinson played for the first time after missing the last 50 games.
New York shot 57.9 percent from the floor and hit 22-of-44 from three-point land en route to scoring the team’s most points in a regulation game since Nov. 1980.
The Knicks, now winners of three-straight and seven of their last eight, improved to 44-28 on the season to go 16 games over .500 for the first time in 11 seasons.
The win also pulled New York ahead of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who lost in Charlotte, into the three-seed in the Eastern Conference via a tiebreaker. The Knicks are also just 2.5 games behind the Milwaukee Bucks for the No. 2 spot.
Toronto fell to 23-50 with the loss.
Here are the takeaways…
– McBride, getting the chance to start for the fifth-straight game, knocked down his first three from beyond the arc but he wasn’t done. McBride would knock down three more from deep in the quarter to tie a franchise record with Quentin Richardson and John Starks for most threes in a quarter (six). The guard finished the opening frame with 18 points on 6-for-9 shooting (6-for-8 from three) with three assists and a steal.
McBride would finish with a team-high 29 points on 10-for-17 shooting (9-for-14 from three) with three rebounds and seven assists in 39:35 of game time. He was a team-high plus-40 on the night.
He entered the night shooting 42.5 percent from beyond the arc since returning to the rotation on Dec. 30. It was McBride’s fifth-straight game with at least 39 minutes, and during that span, he is averaging 21.6 points on 38-for-67 shooting (56.7 percent) and 23-for-47 from three (47.9 percent).
– The Knicks’ hot shooting from deep wasn’t limited to McBride pouring it in, Bojan Bogdanovic started 2-for-3 and Donte DiVincenzo started out 2-for-2.
Jalen Brunson, feeling left out of the fun early in the game, had a 7-0 run himself early in the second quarter to put the Knicks up 21 with 8:10 to play in the quarter. The All-Star guard had 11 of…
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Publish date : 2024-03-28 01:56:05
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