{"id":15293,"date":"2025-06-02T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T18:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/karl-anthony-towns-leads-comeback-as-new-york-knicks-defeat-indiana-pacers\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T18:30:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T18:30:25","slug":"karl-anthony-towns-leads-comeback-as-new-york-knicks-defeat-indiana-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/karl-anthony-towns-leads-comeback-as-new-york-knicks-defeat-indiana-pacers\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl-Anthony Towns leads comeback as New York Knicks defeat Indiana Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The New York Knicks produced a stunning comeback to claim a first win in their NBA Eastern Conference play-off finals against the Indiana Pacers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defeat would have left the Knicks 3-0 down in the seven-game series, but New York &#8211; who were 20 points down towards the end of the second quarter &#8211; now only trail 2-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Karl-Anthony Towns starred with 20 points in the fourth quarter to snatch a crucial 106-100 victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With his side trailing 80-70 at the end of the third quarter, Towns &#8211; who played fewer than 28 minutes in game two &#8211; scored 15 points in the first four minutes of the quarter before adding a further five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I got a chance to do what I do in the fourth, I was going to make sure I seized the opportunity,&#8221; Towns said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c1deqz0gx93o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Knicks produced a stunning comeback to claim a first win in their NBA Eastern Conference play-off finals against the Indiana Pacers. Defeat would have left the Knicks 3-0 down in the seven-game series, but New York &#8211; who were 20 points down towards the end of the second quarter &#8211; now only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15295,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15293\/revisions\/15295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}