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Jalen Brunson scored 47 points to power the Knicks to a 132-125 win over the Miami Heat on Sunday night at Madison Square Garden.
It was Brunson’s 20th 40-point game with New York and the most points he’s scored at MSG. Mikal Bridges added 24 points (6-for-7 from beyond the arc), including 18 in the first half, on a night when the Knicks turned around some first-quarter woes into a big bounce-back win to improve to 20-8 on the season (14-2 at home) and sent the Heat to a seventh loss in their last eight games to fall to 15-14 on the year.
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The opening quarter on Sunday began like a Sunday drive: A bit aimless, a bit stop-and-go, featured a few wrong turns, and some back-seat driving as Karl-Anthony Towns was issued a technical foul all within the opening five minutes. Mike Brown called for a timeout after the Heat converted an easy layup as they beat the Knicks down the floor in transition. The pause didn’t help: Towns committed the Knicks’ third turnover with an offensive foul, and Miami scored five straight for an 18-9 advantage.
Down 10 late in the period, the Knicks finally got a bit of rhythm going with seven straight points. The Heat, with quick ball movement and pushing the pace, converted on 7-for-11 from behind the arc in the first for a seven-point edge after 12 minutes, despite the Knicks’ 12-for-22 (54.5 percent) start from the floor.
Entering midway through the second with the Knicks down nine, Brunson went back to work with five points. Bridges, who started hot, didn’t want to miss out, connecting on back-to-back threes to force Erik Spoelstra to call for time in a one-point game with 3:42 to play in the half. Five straight from Brunson gave the Knicks a lead, 61-57, for the first time since it was 9-8 early in the first. The guard rattled in his fifth three of the half just before the buzzer to give him 27 and the Knicks a 66-62 lead.
In the third, after Miami cut the lead to two, seven straight from New York, which turned offense to defense with a pair of blocks, forced a timeout up nine, their largest lead of the night. Norman Powell woke up with 19 points in the quarter and Kel’el…
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