{"id":714876,"date":"2026-04-20T23:52:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714876\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:52:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:52:30","slug":"knicks-vs-hawks-game-2-live-updates-score-news-and-highlights-from-nba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714876\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks vs. Hawks Game 2 live updates: Score, news and highlights from NBA Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Knicks took a 1-0 series lead after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/18\/sports\/knicks-roll-past-hawks-for-huge-game-1-playoff-victory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">113-102 victory<\/a> against the Hawks on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 tips off from Madison Square Garden at 8:00 p.m. ET on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>New York is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/19\/sports\/knicks-defense-locked-in-to-shut-down-hawks-and-hope-to-replicate-it\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">focused on being the more physical team<\/a> for the series and will be relying on its defensive play to shut down Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Knicks build on their series lead or will Atlanta even things up before heading home? Follow The Post\u2019s live updates for the latest NBA playoffs score, news and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks took a 1-0 series lead after a\u00a0113-102 victory against the Hawks on Saturday. Game 2 tips&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[208,7,288,304,6,11,56381,1136,191,3810,3806,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-714876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-jalen-brunson","11":"tag-knicks","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-playoffs","14":"tag-nba-playoffs-2026","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkknicks","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116439729810077760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714876","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=714876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}