![]() ![]() Thibodeau didn’t offer many details on Burks’ status. Reggie Bullock finished with 11 points and did a good job pestering Doncic. The Knicks led 34-25 after shooting 70% in the first quarter. Knicks: After Randle scored 15 of the first 23 New York points, Rose scored seven in a row for the Knicks, capped by a 3-pointer for a 30-23 lead. We needed to do more to make it harder on their whole team.”īarrett scored 10 of the Knicks’ first 13 points in the fourth quarter, helping push the New York lead back to double digits for the first time since early in the second quarter.ĭoncic, who barely beat the buzzer with a lunging floater off one foot that was behind the 3-point line in a 114-113 victory over the Grizzlies two nights earlier, was just 2 of 9 from beyond the arc as Dallas finished 15 of 45 from deep. “When his shot-making is like it was tonight, it’s just very, very difficult. “He got going early tonight,” Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. ![]() He is the first Knicks player since Bernard King in 1985 with at least 40 points, 10 rebounds and five assists in a regular-season game. It was Randle’s sixth straight game with at least 20 points against his hometown team. Randle topped his previous best of 30 points in the Mavericks’ arena, also with the Pelicans two years ago. The Dallas native matched his season high in points and finished a point shy of his career high of 45 with New Orleans in March 2019. He finished one 3-pointer shy of his season high, going 6 of 11, including one in the final seconds of the third quarter to give New York an 83-79 lead going to the fourth. ![]() Randle, who had 10 rebounds and seven assists, scored the first 10 New York points and ended up 16 of 29 from the field. But the Mavericks couldn’t follow Doncic’s electrifying game-winning 3-pointer in Memphis two nights earlier with another victory. Luka Doncic scored 22 points and tied a career high with 19 assists, while Porzingis had 23 points and 12 rebounds. That’s probably the most important thing.” “If we take care of all the little things, the big things will take care of themselves. “We try not to get wrapped up in any of that stuff,” coach Tom Thibodeau said. It’s the longest winning streak for New York since an eight-game run in March 2014. 500 for the first time since December 2017, about two months before a season-ending knee injury for Kristaps Porzingis in what ended up being his final game for the Knicks before ending up in Dallas in a blockbuster trade. “I always love playing at home in front of my friends, in front of my family. “I was locked in and focused,” said Randle, whose third career 40-point game came a night after scoring 32 in a 116-106 victory at New Orleans. Derrick Rose added 15 points with fellow backup guard Alec Burks sidelined by COVID-19 protocols. RJ Barrett had 24 points and eight rebounds. DALLAS - Julius Randle scored 44 points in his best game in his hometown, leading the New York Knicks to a 117-109 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Friday night for a five-game winning streak, their longest in seven years. ![]()
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