Jrue Holiday snapped out of a game-long stoop by scoring 10 factors within the closing 2:30 on Monday night time for the visiting Milwaukee Bucks, who overcame a 17-point, third-quarter deficit to edge the New York Knicks 111-107.
Giannis Antetokounmpo posted a double-double (22 factors, 10 rebounds), whereas Brook Lopez had 17 factors, together with the nook 3-pointer with 1:46 left that put the Bucks forward for good at 100-97.
Joe Ingles had 17 factors off the bench and Holiday completed with 15 factors for the Bucks, who’ve gained three of 4. Grayson Allen and Pat Connaughton scored 11 factors apiece, whereas reserve Bobby Portis added 10.
Jalen Brunson scored a career-high 44 factors for the Knicks, whose four-game successful streak was snapped. Julius Randle had 25 factors and 16 rebounds, and Immanuel Quickley completed with 23 factors.
Each group led by as many as eight within the first half earlier than Quickley scored 5 factors to start a 13-2 run that gave the Knicks their largest lead at 70-53 with 5:00 left within the third. The Bucks responded by ending the quarter with a 20-8 run through which Ingles scored eight factors.
Obi Toppin opened the fourth quarter with a 3-pointer for the Knicks earlier than Lopez, Allen and Ingles hit treys on consecutive journeys to place the Bucks forward for the primary time for the reason that opening minutes of the second quarter. There had been eight extra lead modifications and three ties the remainder of the way in which, throughout which the groups had been by no means separated by greater than 4 factors.
Holiday, who missed six of his first seven photographs from past the arc, hit a 3-pointer to place the Bucks up 97-96 with 2:23 left. After Randle break up a pair of free throws, Lopez hit his tiebreaking 3-pointer.
Brunson responded with a turnaround jumper, after which Holiday drained a stepback 3-pointer with 47.4 seconds left to offer Milwaukee a 103-99 lead. Brunson hit a driving layup out of a timeout, however Holiday drained an extended fallaway jumper.
Brunson then sank a pullup earlier than the Bucks eluded the Knicks’ makes an attempt to foul on a possession that ended with a Lopez dunk. Brunson was fouled by Antetokounmpo and transformed each free throws with 9.4 seconds left. Holiday then hit two free throws and Brunson drove the size of the courtroom for a layup earlier than Allen iced the sport with a pair of free throws with 0.6 seconds remaining.
—Field Level Media/Reuters
