{"id":29951,"date":"2026-05-24T07:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nba-cleveland-cavaliers-108-121-new-york-knicks-jalen-brunson-helps-knicks-into-3-0-lead\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T07:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:30:28","slug":"nba-cleveland-cavaliers-108-121-new-york-knicks-jalen-brunson-helps-knicks-into-3-0-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nba-cleveland-cavaliers-108-121-new-york-knicks-jalen-brunson-helps-knicks-into-3-0-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Cleveland Cavaliers 108-121 New York Knicks: Jalen Brunson helps Knicks into 3-0 lead"},"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 swept aside the Cleveland Cavaliers to move within one win of their first NBA Finals since 1999.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 121-108 victory at Rocket Arena means they lead the Eastern Conference finals 3-0 and can wrap up the series at the same venue on Monday (01:00 BST, Tuesday).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No NBA team has overcome a 3-0 deficit in a play-off series in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Knicks are on a franchise-record run of 10 straight play-off victories, winning by an average margin of 22.5 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jalen Brunson scored 30 points and Mikal Bridges 22 for the third seeds, who never trailed against the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cwy23ew24e0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Knicks swept aside the Cleveland Cavaliers to move within one win of their first NBA Finals since 1999. The 121-108 victory at Rocket Arena means they lead the Eastern Conference finals 3-0 and can wrap up the series at the same venue on Monday (01:00 BST, Tuesday). No NBA team has overcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29951","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\/29951","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=29951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29953,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29951\/revisions\/29953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}