NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jalen Johnson had 18 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds in his seventh triple-double of the season, leading the Atlanta Hawks to a 111-99 victory over the New York Knicks on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Nickeil Alexander-Walker scored 23 points and Onyeka Okongwu had 22 for the Hawks, while both Zaccharie Risacher and Luke Kennard scored 12.<\/p>\n
Jalen Brunson led the Knicks with 24 points. OG Anunoby had 19 points and 10 rebounds, and Mikal Bridges added 18 points.<\/p>\n
Ariel Hukporti, who replaced Karl-Anthony Towns (illness) in the starting lineup, grabbed a career-high 17 rebounds for New York. <\/p>\n
The Knicks got off to a quick start, taking an 11-2 lead. Trailing 30-29, the Hawks scored the final four points of the first quarter and never trailed again.<\/p>\n
Atlanta extended its lead to 60-45 on Okongwu\u2019s short jumper with 1:16 remaining in the second quarter before Brunson\u2019s runner cut the Knicks\u2019 deficit to 60-47 at halftime.<\/p>\n
Alexander-Walker\u2019s driving layup with 1:14 left in the third quarter gave the Hawks their biggest lead of the game at 94-68 and they were ahead 94-70 at the end of the quarter. <\/p>\n
The Knicks scored the first 11 points of the fourth quarter and pulled within 94-81 before Kennard connected on back-to-back 3-pointers to end the streak.<\/p>\n
New York mounted a final rally following consecutive 3-pointers by Bridges to edge within 108-99, but never got any closer.<\/p>\n
The Hawks, who have won two in a row following a season-high, seven-game losing streak, became the first team to hold the Knicks to fewer than 100 points this season.<\/p>\n
Atlanta’s Trae Young (bruised right quadriceps) and Knicks center Mitchell Robinson (left ankle injury management) each missed their third straight games. <\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tUp next<\/p>\n
Hawks: Visit Toronto on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Knicks: Host Philadelphia on Saturday. <\/p>\n
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AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jalen Johnson had 18 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds in his seventh triple-double…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3776],"tags":[56984,2097,676,208,3874,7,677,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-513342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-hawks","8":"tag-ap-sports","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-atlanta","11":"tag-atlanta-hawks","12":"tag-atlantahawks","13":"tag-basketball","14":"tag-hawks","15":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115829629528286699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513342","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=513342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}