Jalen Brunson scored 26 of 39 points in the second half, and the New York Knicks was the first host team to win the series by sending Boston Celtics 121-113 on Monday night to get ahead 3-1 in the Eastern Conference semi-final match.
Karl-Anthony Towns added 23 points and 11 rebounds and mikal bridges for Knicks, who survived the third quarter deficit of 14 points. OG Anunoby made some important games late while contributing to 20 points.
Brunson also made 12 assists for New York with the third seed.
Boston star Jayson Tatum continued to injure a serious right ankle injury at the end of the competition. Tatum had 42 points, eight rebounds, four assists and four steals. While lowering the first two matches of the series, he overturned seven 3 numbers for the second -seed Celtics, who laid 20 -point leaders.
Derrick White made six 3 points and got 23 points and added 20 points and seven rebounds for Jaylen Brown Boston. Payton Pritchard had 12 points for Celtics.
Knicks can meet the seven best series in Game 5 in Boston on Wednesday night.
Anunoby remained 5:52 to start a decisive 14-2 moves.
Bridges made a jumper 111-104 in the lane and Anunoby, 3:03. Tatum was injured in the second game and was caught for the ankle and pointed to a time -out with 2:58.
Tatum was helped from the ground while keeping his right foot in the air, and then he was pushed into the locker room while sitting in a rolling chair.
Brunson nailed a train to close the run and stayed 2:25 in 116-104.
New York was connected to 54.3 percent of his shooting and 34 (35.3 percent) behind the arc.
Boston made 18 (37.5 percent) of 48 3 -point attempt, and in the last two competitions, 38 (43.2 percent) of 88 (43.2 percent), and 25 of 100 in the opening of the two problems were terrible 25. In general, Celtics made 48.1 percent of his shots at the game 4.
Boston went ahead 72-58 after White’s 3-manuscript, and Knicks remained in the third quarter before the rest of the period before the explosion of 30-13.
32.1 seconds before Anunoby’nin 3-workman New York 86-85 advantage. Josh Hart, Bridges fourth quarter with a short Jumper before opening Knicks 90-85 before the lead.
Tatum drilled the 3-to-workman to knot the score at 8:22 in 96. Tatum overthrew another train after 65 seconds to provide a single -point advantage to Boston, and then transformed a three -point game to connect to 6:12 to 102.
Tatum (20 first half points) and white (17) led 62-51 in the Boston break and made four 3 points. Brunson directed Knicks with 13 points.
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