Gift Cunningham had 24 points, eight rebounds and eight assists, and the Detroit Pistons stayed alive in their first appearance in postseason since 2019 by beating the New York Knicks 106-103 on Tuesday nights.
Ausar Thompson added 22 points and Tobias Harris had 17 for the Pistons, who will have the opportunity to come on Thursday night at home in game 6. If they win that, the decisive game Winde in Madison Square Garden on Saturday.
Detroit, he thought, has lost an NBA record, nine consecutive games since 2008.
But the Pistons seem comfortable in New York, where they were 2-0 in the regular season and now 2-1 in this series, including their victory of the game 2 that broke their perdetermary run of 15 games, the longest in the history of the NBA.
Og Anunoby scored 19 points for the Knicks, who tried to reach the semifinals of the East Conference for the third consecutive season. Karl-Anthony Towns and Mikal Bridges were 17, but Jalen Brunson had his post-season sausage game with 16 points in 4 of 16 shots.
The game was tied at 95 before Jalen last consecutive baskets and Cunningham scored for a six -point advantage. The Pistons had a good break when Brunson and Josh Hart left the game with injuries with 2:57 remnants and plays continued for a while without being ready to return. When they could, there were only 27 seconds left.
The Knicks reduced it to 104-103 in 3-Pointer Anunobies with 5.7 seconds removed before Cunningham made a couple from the line with 5.4 to play for the final margin.
Brunson had scored 30 or more points in each game of the series and averaged 33.3 through four games before not arriving at the middle of Tuesday, when the Knicks tried to win a series in their homemade finances for the east of 1999.
Now they will try to do it in Detroit, where they won the 3 and 4 games.
Durnen finished with nine points, 14 rebounds and six assists.
Associated Press reports.
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