January 27, 2025; New York, New York, USA; The New York striker Knicks Mikal Bridges (25) shoots the ball against the Mephis Grizzlies during the second half in the Madison Sq. Backyard. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Pictures
The last long farm of the season for the New York Knicks has a historically good start. The longest road trip of the Denver Nuggets season is not doing so well.
New York receives Denver on Wednesday night in a battle of possible contenders of the NBA title.
Both teams were out on Tuesday after playing on Monday, when the Knicks led almost to the wire cable in a 143-106 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies, while the Nuggets discarded a 10-point advantage they had in the third quarter And they fell to Chicago Bulls, 129-121.
The Knicks completed their most prolific consecutive section in almost 60 years, after reaching a 143-120 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Saturday night to open the five-game farm.
New York last scored at least 140 points in consecutive games from December 11 to 14, 1965, when the Knicks beat the Baltimore Bullets 150-127 and surpassed the San Francisco Warriors 141-137.
Mikal Bridges (28 points) led seven knicks in double figures on Monday night, since they followed only once, with 2-0, and the Grizzles dominated at both ends of the floor. New York surpassed Memphis 83-54 after part time and ended the game with 20 robberies, the second more than an NBA team in a game this season. The Atlanta Hawks had 22 robberies against the Toronto Raptors on December 29.
New York, now 6-6 against teams currently in playoff stalls, will close your homestand playing four consecutive teams that are among the six best at the West Conference. Los Angeles Lakers are scheduled to visit on Saturday night, followed by the Houston Rockets on Monday night.
“They are a difficult confrontation, that is a good test for us,” said the Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau, on the Grizzlies third. “And we had to be tied. I loved our Common activity. I thought our excellent journal defensive activity. Great game of a multiple game. ”
The defensive effort has not been robust in the last two games for the Nuggets, who have abandoned consecutive competitions for the first time from December 25 to 27. Denver has not lost three followed from February 9 to 14, 2024.
The Nuggets have renounced 262 points combined with the Bulls and the Minnesota Timberwolves, the largest number of points paid by Denver in consecutive games, since it gave 264 points in consecutive victories in Time Further on the Raptors de Toronto and the Nets of Brooklyn from October. 28-29.
Denver allowed seven Bulls players to score in double figures on Monday night and yielded 34 points in the fourth quarter, when Chicago was 13, 24 years old from the field (54.2 percent), including 6 of 13 (46.2 percent ) 3 -Level Land.
“We got into the game,” said the Nuggets coach Michael Malone. “You let a team stay and in that third quarter entering the last quarter, they literally led the ball through their throat and recovered and driving three, driving and kicking three, driving and kicking three.
The defensive struggles wasted another gigantic game by Nikola Jokic. The three times the most valuable player of the NBA registered another triple double (33 points, 12 rebounds, 14 assists) while becoming the first player to leave 10 of 10 from the field in a first half with at least eight assists.
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