Knicks’ Donte DiVincenzo sets team record with 11 three-pointers, drops career-high 40 points in win over Pistons

Donte DiVincenzo was not messing around.

Before the Knicks’ 124-99 win over the Detroit Pistons on Monday, DiVincenzo told Newsday that he would love to set the Knicks’ single-season record for three-pointers made.

Then, as if to drive home the point, DiVincenzo went out and set a different record. The sharpshooter knocked down a franchise single-game record 11 three-pointers and scored a career-high 40 points to lead the Knicks to their fifth win in six games.

And, as fate would have it, DiVincenzo did it playing against Evan Fournier, the former Knick who holds the single-season record for threes and did hold the single-game record of 10 threes, along with J.R. Smith, until DiVincenzo broke it with 3:16 left.

With 11 games left, DiVincenzo needs to make just eight more threes to pass Fournier’s single season mark of 241 that he set when he was a Knick in 202`-22. Fournier broke John Starks’ record of 217 set in 1995.

“Absolutely, I wouldn’t mind having it,” DiVincenzo said before the game. “Anybody when you are in reach to be in the record books it’s a great achievement.”

The Knicks (43-28) remain in fourth place, a half game behind the third-place Cleveland Cavaliers who beat the Hornets Monday night.