{"id":565496,"date":"2026-01-28T04:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/565496\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T04:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:08:17","slug":"knicks-score-ho-hum-win-over-kings-for-third-straight-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/565496\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks score ho-hum win over Kings for third straight victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concerns bubbling around the Knicks had cooled in recent days, but Tuesday brought them right back to the surface.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s despite extending their win streak to three. <\/p>\n<p>Because if it were almost any other team than one of the NBA\u2019s bottom-feeders in the Kings, they would have been buried.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Robinson  (left) and Mikal Bridges both had solid games in the Knicks\u2019 103-87 win over the Kings on Jan. 27, 2026. Jason Szenes \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Against any quality side, this wouldn\u2019t have been good enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They committed 21 turnovers, allowing the Kings to score 20 points off them. <\/p>\n<p>OG Anunoby had a whopping seven \u2014 including three straight turnovers to end the third quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are lucky the Kings shot a brutal 16.7 percent (5-for-30) from 3-point range. Plenty of those were open looks, though \u2014 not exactly the result of strong perimeter defense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It meant the Knicks could survive a brutal first three quarters before outscoring the Kings by 16 in the fourth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So the lethargic Knicks were bailed out with a 103-87 win at Madison Square Garden. <\/p>\n<p>Jalen Brunson, who scored a team-high 28 points, celebrates after hitting a 3-pointer during the Knicks\u2019 win over the Kings.  Jason Szenes \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>After losing 9 of 11 games, they have responded with three straight wins. <\/p>\n<p>Their <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/21\/sports\/knicks-destroy-nets-in-historic-laugher-to-snap-losing-skid\/#:~:text=They%20blew%20out%20the%20Nets,in%20the%20NBA%20this%20year.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">historic rout of the Nets<\/a>, followed by a chaotic win over the 76ers in Philadelphia, provided some confidence that they put their rut behind them and were returning to the standard they had held earlier in the season.<\/p>\n<p>But Tuesday\u2019s showing certainly wasn\u2019t convincing \u2014 quite the opposite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The MSG broadcast repeatedly showed a puzzled Brown looking on on the bench, unhappy with what he was seeing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Karl-Anthony Towns (right) greets Josh Hart as they head to the bench during the Knicks\u2019 win over the Kings.  Jason Szenes \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>It was embarrassing when the Knicks lost to the Kings in Sacramento earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p>The Kings, who are now 24 games under .500, proceeded to go 1-5 before Tuesday\u2019s rematch. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat\u2019s happening on and off the Garden court\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Knicks by Stefan Bondy, a weekly exclusive on Sports+.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And for the majority of Tuesday, the Knicks were flirting with similar embarrassment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until just over three minutes left in the game until they finally took control, when Jalen Brunson scored seven straight points to put the Knicks up 12. Brunson finished with a team-high 28 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DeMar DeRozan, 36, turned back the clock and recorded 34 points.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The concerns bubbling around the Knicks had cooled in recent days, but Tuesday brought them right back to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,288,327,563,4056,1260,6,191,254,986,477,4055,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-565496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jalen-brunson","10":"tag-josh-hart","11":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","12":"tag-kings","13":"tag-mikal-bridges","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-new-york-knicks","16":"tag-russell-westbrook","17":"tag-sacramento","18":"tag-sacramento-kings","19":"tag-sacramentokings","20":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115970763074267446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565496","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=565496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}