BOSTON — Take your time with that sore left foot, Jalen Brunson.
Immanuel Quickley has all the things below management.
With out the injured Brunson, the third-year guard carried the Knicks in crunch time Sunday.
His career-high 38 factors in an exhausting 55 minutes led coach Tom Thibodeau’s group to yet one more dramatic win, a 131-129 double-overtime victory over the Celtics at TD Backyard that despatched the Knicks to their NBA-leading ninth straight victory.
With Julius Randle clearly out of fuel, Quickley scored seven factors within the second additional time and the Knicks prevailed when Al Horford’s 3-pointer was off the mark on the buzzer.
With the victory, the white-hot Knicks (39-27) equaled the Celtics for probably the most street wins within the NBA (20) and moved again to inside a sport of the fourth-place Cavaliers.
Randle had 31 factors, 9 rebounds and 4 assists, RJ Barrett added 29 factors and 11 rebounds and Mitchell Robinson had 13 factors and 14 rebounds.
Jayson Tatum scored 40 for the Celtics, however made simply 12 of 30 photographs from the sphere.
Jaylen Brown chipped in 29.
Quickley scored the primary 5 factors of the second OT, giving the Knicks a much-needed cushion.
Two Josh Hart free throws with 1:21 left made it a five-point sport.
However after a 24-second violation and consecutive Tatum drives, the Celtics had the ball, down two and 10.2 seconds remaining.
Up 11 following a surprising 30-7 run bridging the tip of the third quarter and begin of the fourth, the Knicks gave the lead again.
A scoreless stretch of three:36 enabled the Celtics to go on a 13-2 run and get even at 102 on Brown’s three-point play with 4:09 left.
Quickley gave the Knicks the lead with a child jumper within the lane and Hart adopted with a driving layup. Boston received inside one on Marcus Sensible’s 3-pointer following two offensive rebounds with 18.7 seconds to go.
After Randle calmly sank two clutch free throws, Brown transformed a game-tying three-point play after which stripped Randle on the opposite finish to power additional time.
Within the first further session, Horford’s 3-pointer with 29.2 seconds left gave the Celtics the lead.
Quickley tied it on the opposite finish with 12.9 to go and Tatum missed a driving runner within the lane as time expired.
The Knicks held a four-point lead late within the first half when Robinson picked up his third foul.
Thibodeau opted to go small, utilizing Randle at middle, and he paid for it.
The Celtics reeled off the ultimate 11 factors of the half, with 5 of them coming after offensive rebounds.
It was the story of the opening 24 minutes, Boston crushing the Knicks on the glass to the tune of 11 offensive rebounds and 18 second-chance factors, and turning 10 turnovers into 14 fast-break factors.
The little issues they’d been doing so nicely eluded them.
With out Brunson, Barrett was extra concerned.
He began sizzling, hitting 5 of his first six photographs, and had a team-high 16 factors on the break.
Coming off his 43-point outburst towards the Warmth, Randle notched 14.
The Knicks had no reply for the 2 Celtics stars, Tatum and Brown.
The duo mixed for 36 first-half factors on 12 of 23 taking pictures. Tatum had 19 — 5 greater than he mustered the final time the Knicks and Celtics performed each other.
The halftime break didn’t decelerate the Celtics.
They constructed on their momentum, shortly pushing the lead into double figures.
After Sensible baited Randle into an offensive foul, he bumped the official whereas arguing and was assessed a technical foul.
A couple of possessions later, Sensible sank a 3-pointer, pushing the result in 13.
The Celtics led by as many as 14, and the successful streak seemed prepared to finish.
However the Knicks responded as they’ve all through this run.
They closed the quarter on an 18-5 run to go forward on a Randle right-corner 3-pointer on the horn — from the identical actual spot as his game-winner in Miami.
Quickley scored eight factors within the burst and had two steals, giving the Knicks a serious jolt.
He saved on going to start out the fourth, hitting one other 3-pointer and establishing a Barrett triple, because the Knicks immediately discovered themselves up 9 with 9:04 to go.
