The game between the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets will take place at Madison Square Garden on Monday, March 27 at 7:30 PM ET.
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The New York Knicks will welcome the Houston Rockets to Madison Square Garden for an NBA game on Monday. The New York Knicks lost 111-106 in their last game over the Magic. Quentin Grimes and Immanuel Quickley scored 25 points each for the Knicks, who lost their third straight. Julius Randle finished with 23 points and nine rebounds. With Jalen Brunson out with an injury and Randle on the bench, the Knicks went almost 5 1/2 minutes without scoring in the second quarter and fell behind 46-27. The first half ended with Randle drawing a technical foul from referee Leon Wood and jawing with Quickley, who was trying to restrain him as they walked off the court.
“Everybody’s trying to win. That’s all I can really say about that,” Quickley said. “Sometimes that happens.” New York had a 23-4 run and tied it at 75 on Quickley’s two free throws with 49 seconds left in the third quarter, but the Knicks never took the lead in the second half. Anthony and Gary Harris opened the fourth quarter with 3s and the Knicks spent the rest of the game trying to catch up.
“We gave up 36 points in the fourth quarter tonight. That’s not who we are,” Quickley said. “In the third quarter we got out of the hole, and then at the start of the fourth quarter we played poorly,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeaux said. “That third quarter our defense got us into the open floor. We got some easy buckets. That helped us a lot, but we exerted so much energy trying to fight out of that hole that we fell short in the end.”
The Houston Rockets on the other hand lost 108-91 against the Cavaliers in their last game. Jalen Green led Houston with 30 points, his 14th game of at least 30 this season. Alperen Sengun added 14 points, Kenyon Martin Jr. 13 and Jabari Smith Jr. 12 for the Rockets, who dropped their fifth consecutive game.
After the Rockets (18-57) sliced a 20-point deficit to five through three quarters, Allen elevated the Cavaliers (48-28) with his two-way play. Allen followed his block of Tari Eason’s dunk attempt with two free throws that pushed the lead to 89-82 with 9:20 left. He tallied two more free throws and a dunk at the 8:06 mark that extended the lead back to double digits at 93-82. The Cavaliers was not seriously threatened from there.
After totaling just 43 points in the first half, the Rockets climbed back into contention with its 37-point third quarter. Green scored 14 points on only five shot attempts in the period, going 3-of-4 from behind the arc and 3-of-4 at the free-throw line. The Rockets made four 3-pointers in the frame in addition to nine free throws and took advantage of Cleveland missing 6 of 7 3-pointers.
New York Knicks: Julius Randle, RJ Barrett, Mitchell Robinson, Immanuel Quickley, Quentin Grimes
Houston Rockets: Jabari Smith Jr., Kenyon Martin Jr., Alperen Şengün, Kevin Porter Jr., Jalen Green
New York Knicks: Duane Washington Jr. , Jalen Brunson
Houston Rockets: Jae’Sean Tate
The game between the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets will take place at Madison Square Garden on Monday, March 27 at 7:30 PM ET.
The match between the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets will be telecast live on AT&T SportsNet Southwest, MSG.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | AT&T SportsNet Southwest, MSG. | March 27 (7:30 PM ET) |
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