Ugly stretch dooms Knicks in disappointing loss to Jazz
NY Post
SALT LAKE CITY — It was ‘80s Night’ at the Delta Center and the Knicks paid homage to the forgettable days of Pat Cummings and Louis Orr.
In other words, they weren’t very good.
As Journey and Bruce Springsteen blasted during timeouts, the Knicks were pounded at the start of the fourth quarter in a 117-113 defeat to the Jazz, wasting another strong performance from Julius Randle and missing two open shots that could’ve tied the game in the final seconds.
“We want to play for a full 48 minutes, playing our style of basketball, the way we want to play,” Jalen Brunson said. “We can’t have lapses like that and lose a game.”
The killer stretch spanned the third and fourth quarters — with Brunson and Randle mostly on the bench — when the Jazz scored 16 straight points to take a 15-point advantage.
It started with a boneheaded foul from center Isaiah Hartenstein, who ran into Utah’s Lauri Markkanen as the forward took a 3-pointer at the buzzer.
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The Yankees publicly are on the same page: Hal Steinbrenner, like Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone before him, said that issues with the club’s fundamentals did not hover over the team all season.
The first day of the rest of Daniel Jones’ dwindling time with the Giants arrived Wednesday, with Jones in the building, in the meetings, on the practice field (although not doing very much) and not at all part of the game plan for the next game, relegated to a non-participant role for the remainder of the season.
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The Lakers’ decision to keep Bronny James away from G League road games has sparked some debate about the level of preferential treatment the franchise is giving to LeBron’s son.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Rangers continue to flex their strength on the road this season.
One of Tom Thibodeau’s stated points of emphasis for the Knicks this season — to increase their volume of 3-point attempts to take advantage of their proficiency from the outside — is starting to come to fruition.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — It’s the best-case scenario for Filip Chytil and the Rangers.