MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2014 OG Anunoby had 25 points and 13 rebounds, Karl-Anthony Towns had 20 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists for his fourth triple-double of the season, and the Knicks beat the Memphis Grizzlies, 130-119, on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Mikal Bridges added 24 points as the Knicks snapped a three-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
GG Jackson led Memphis with 20 points, Olivier-Maxence Prosper added 17 and Cedric Coward finished with 15 points.<\/p>\n
The Knicks sit in third place in the Eastern Conference, a game and a half ahead of the Cavaliers, who were idle Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
The Knicks took an early lead, missing only two of their first 15 shots. The Knicks scored 22 points in the paint and had an 11-2 advantage on the boards in the first quarter. The Knicks\u00a0shot 71% overall, including 7 of 10 from outside the arc, in the first half and took a 79-62 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n
The 79 points were a season-high for a Knicks first half and just short of the 83 the Knicks scored in the second half against Minnesota on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies were outrebounded 49-20 in the game, the 20 boards a franchise low.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies cut the Knicks’ lead to 90-87 in the third quarter before the Knicks pulled ahead to lead 99-90 entering the fourth.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies were again short-handed with injuries throughout their roster. And earlier Wednesday, forward Brandon Clarke, who has missed most of this season recovering from knee surgery and a right calf strain, was arrested in Arkansas on drug and reckless driving charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2014 OG Anunoby had 25 points and 13 rebounds, Karl-Anthony Towns had 20 points, 11 rebounds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,6863,294,293,177,4070,6,191],"class_list":{"0":"post-693139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-gamer","10":"tag-grizzlies","11":"tag-memphis","12":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","13":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-new-york-knicks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116332883595920234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693139","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=693139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}