Nursing a right foot injury, the relentless Knicks point guard pushed New York to a commanding 2–0 lead in the second-round series.
The pain was evident, even if the stoic Jalen Brunson refused to give into it. Whatever triggered Brunson’s right foot injury, which he appeared to tweak in the first quarter of Wednesday’s Game 2 of the second-round series between the New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers, the impact was obvious. There was no burst on Brunson’s first drive to the basket in the third quarter. Defensively, he looked a step slow.
tunnel to help the Knicks win Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals, Brunson, who finished with 29 points in New York’s 130–121 win, helped push the Knicks one game closer to getting there.“I was going to give it a go,” Brunson said. “No matter what.”. His 36 points per contest in April helped push the Knicks, who have been without Julius Randle since late January, into the No. 2 seed. His 35.5 points against the Philadelphia 76ers powered New York into the second round.
He needed to. Indiana came out firing in Game 2. Haliburton, who was held to six points in Game 1, more than doubled it in the first quarter. Obi Toppin, who the Knicks discarded last summer for a pair of second-round picks, had 10 off the bench. Indy’s full-court defense seemed to wear down a Knicks team that rarely goes to its bench. The Pacers shot 57.1% from the field in the first half—including 52.6% from three—and looked poised to send the series back to Indiana tied at one.
Still, there’s a swagger to these Knicks. It flows from Brunson, the second-round pick turned starter, the starter turned All-Star, the All-Star who will add All-NBA to his résumé in the days to come. On Wednesday,. Brunson finished fifth in the voting. If voters could re-vote and include postseason performance, it’s likely he would finish even higher.
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