Jalen Brunson outscores Luka Doncic, LeBron James but leaves with apparent ankle injury in Knicks’ 113-109 OT loss to Lakers

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Jalen Brunson scored a game-high 39 points, but injured his ankle and was in the locker room for the waning moments of overtime as the Knicks fell to the Lakers, 113-109, on Thursday night in Los Angeles.

The Lakers extended their winning streak to eight, and the Knicks dropped their first game of the five-game West Coast trip. It’s the first time the Knicks lost a game in overtime this season.

Here are the takeaways…

-New York seemed jetlagged to start this one. In the first five minutes, only Brunson and Josh Hart showed up. The duo were a combined 4-for-4 from the field, scoring the team’s first 10 points while the rest of the starters were 0-for-5. No Knicks players other than Brunson or Hart would score until 3:45 left in the first quarter.

Brunson and Hart combined for 19 points on 7-for-9 shooting. The rest of the team scored eight points on 4-of-14 shooting. As a team, the Knicks shot 1-of-10 from three.

It was worse on the defensive end, allowing Luka Doncic to score a quick 10 points and LeBron James to dish three assists off of pick and rolls. The Lakers shot at a 57.9 percent clip and outrebounded the Knicks 14-10 in the opening frame. Despite that, the Knicks were only down 31-27, thanks to a fadeaway jumper from Brunson as time expired.

-With the secondary unit on the floor to start the second, the Knicks got off to an 11-1 run due to an increase in defensive intensity and the three-point shot finally going down. The Lakers also got cold, going 0-for-8 from three in the quarter. The Knicks built a 12-point lead with 2:48 to go, but Los Angeles became more aggressive, driving to the basket and drawing fouls. The Knicks’ three-point shooting helped stave off bigger Lakers runs and they went into halftime up 60-51.

OG Anunoby was the star of the second quarter for the Knicks, scoring 13 points on 5-of-5 shooting (3-for-3 from three).

-The Knicks’ lead in the third remained the same for the majority of the quarter. The Lakers went on a 7-0 run with less than four minutes remaining, but the Knicks defense clamped down to rebuild their lead back up to double digits. Brunson scored 10 points in the quarter…

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Publish date : 2025-03-07 06:10:00

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