NEW YORK (AP) — Myles Turner scored 23 factors and Tyrese Haliburton added 22 to guide the Indiana Pacers to a 125-111 victory over the New York Knicks on Saturday night time.
Pascal Siakam added 19 factors and T.J. McConnell completed with 16 for Indiana, which shot 61% (50 for 82) within the recreation, together with 48.3% (14 for 29) from 3-point distance. Isaiah Jackson completed with 12 factors and Aaron Nesmith had 13.
Jalen Brunson returned to the Knicks’ lineup after lacking Thursday’s loss to Dallas attributable to a sprained proper ankle and scored 39 factors.
Alec Burks returned to New York as a part of a cope with Bojan Bogdanovic from the Detroit Pistons earlier than Thursday’s commerce deadline. Burks, who was with the Knicks from 2020-22, scored 22 factors and Bogdanovic scored all 11 of his factors within the first half of his New York debut.
Valuable Achiuwa scored 15 factors and Donte DiVincenzo 14 for the Knicks, who’ve misplaced three of 4 following a season-high nine-game successful streak. New York is taking part in with out starters Julius Randle and OG Anunoby, and the middle tandem of Mitchell Robinson and Isaiah Hartenstein.
Neither group was in a position to prolong a lead past 5 factors in a good first half. The Knicks led by some extent at 51-50 when the Pacers went on a six-point run to take a lead they by no means relinquished.
Indiana led 61-58 on the break and prolonged its result in 9 factors at 79-70 on a 3-pointer by Obi Toppin with 4:36 left within the third quarter.
The Knicks closed inside six earlier than Haliburton’ hit an extended 3-pointer simply earlier than the buzzer that gave the Pacers a 91-82 lead heading into the fourth quarter.
Toppin opened the ultimate quarter with a 3-pointer and the Knicks had been by no means in a position to get inside single digits the remainder of the best way.
Jackson’s three-point play prolonged Indiana’s result in a game-high 22 factors, 114-92, with 5:40 remaining.
UP NEXT
Pacers: At Charlotte on Monday.
Knicks: At Houston on Monday.
