New York Knicks forward Julius Randle reacts after dunking during the second half of the team’s NBA basketball game against the Brooklyn Nets, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
NEW YORK (AP) — Jalen Brunson scored 30 points, Julius Randle added 30 points, nine rebounds and seven assists and the New York Knicks extended their winning streak to four games with a 108-103 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night.
New York trailed by nine points at the start of the fourth quarter and outscored the Nets 32-18 in the period, closing out the win with a 10-3 run over the final two minutes.
Donte DiVincenzo scored 11 points and OG Anunoby added 10 for the Knicks.
Brunson, who shot 50% from the field, called the fourth quarter the Knicks’ best 12-minute stretch of the game.
“We just kept grinding. Obviously, they were pretty much beating us all game. They were playing well. They started the game pretty well,” he said. “We couldn’t do anything about what we did in the past, we could only just be better going forward, and the best quarter was the fourth tonight.”
Mikal Bridges hit a career-high seven 3-pointers and scored 36 points for the Nets, who blew a double-digit lead in the fourth quarter in the second consecutive game.
Brooklyn led by as many as 18 points before squandering a 14-point advantage in a loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday. Against the Knicks, Brooklyn was up by 10 late in the third quarter.
“We just got to stay together, that’s the biggest thing,” Bridges said. “When a team makes a run, makes a push, we just got to handle adversity a little better.”
Cameron Johnson scored 19 points and Cam Thomas added 14 off the bench for the Nets, who had lost the last three meetings against the Knicks.
The contest was close for the first two quarters before Brooklyn built a 10-point lead late in the third quarter on a 6-0 run that was capped by a Nic Claxton dunk that extended the lead to 81-71 with…
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