{"id":29741,"date":"2025-05-13T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/29741\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:52:10","slug":"knicks-breakthrough-was-beginning-of-end-for-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/29741\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks breakthrough was beginning of end for Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Knicks can no longer surprise, but simply offer their latest reminder \u2014 everything is possible.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting back against the defending champs to claim their third win in which they trailed by double digits in the second half, the Knicks <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/13\/sports\/knicks-finest-hour-when-it-mattered-most-erased-any-doubts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">played perhaps their best game of the season<\/a> Monday night and moved within one win of reaching the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in a quarter-century, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/12\/sports\/knicks-use-more-second-half-magic-to-beat-celtics-in-game-4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defeating the Celtics<\/a>, 121-113, in Game 4 of the second-round series.<\/p>\n<p>Game 5 will be played in Boston on Wednesday, but the Celtics likely will have to save their season without star forward Jayson Tatum, who was spectacular in a 42-point masterpiece, but <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/12\/sports\/celtics-star-jayson-tatum-exits-with-scary-injury-in-closing-minutes-of-game-4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffered a seemingly devastating non-contact injury<\/a> to his right leg in the final minutes. Tatum, who writhed in pain on the Garden floor after chasing a loose ball, was unable to put weight on his right leg and was taken to the locker room in a wheelchair. He will undergo an MRI exam on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re concerned about his health and we\u2019re concerned with what we have to do better in Game 5,\u201d Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks can no longer surprise, but simply offer their latest reminder \u2014 everything is possible. Fighting back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,4517,75,304,6,11,197,1136,191,3810,3806,3823,66,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-29741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-beyond-the-back-page","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-knicks","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-playoffs","14":"tag-nba-playoffs-2025","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkknicks","19":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114500386499586201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}