{"id":716872,"date":"2026-04-24T01:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/716872\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:57:16","slug":"knicks-lose-another-heartbreaker-to-hawks-to-fall-into-nba-playoffs-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/716872\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks lose another heartbreaker to Hawks to fall into NBA playoffs hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Knicks couldn\u2019t pull off a comeback of their own.<\/p>\n<p>When the buzzer sounded at the end of game the Knicks were on the wrong side of a 109-108 score, falling into a 2-1 hole against the Hawks in their first-round series.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.29784537;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39182053\" width=\"766\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nba-playoffs-game-3-new-126277060.jpg\" alt=\"New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson (11) shoots over Atlanta Hawks forward Jonathan Kuminga (0) during the third quarter of the NBA Playoffs Game 3.\" class=\"wp-image-39182053\"  \/>Knicks guard Jalen Brunson (11) goes up for a shot pass Atlanta Hawks forward Jonathan Kuminga (0) during the third quarter. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>It was a game the Knicks often trailed by double-digits, not getting anywhere close until the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks trailed by one on the final possession in which Jalen Brunson turned it over.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll have the chance to pull even in Game 4 on Saturday in Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks couldn\u2019t pull off a comeback of their own. When the buzzer sounded at the end of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[208,7,304,6,11,56381,1136,191,3810,3806,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-716872","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-knicks","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-playoffs","13":"tag-nba-playoffs-2026","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-knicks","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkknicks","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116457206704502130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716872","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=716872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}