The continuing NBA Coverage of Star FM continues after spotlighting the woes that found the defending champion, the Denver Nuggets in a deep hope versus a surprising Minnesota Timberwolves.
In the New York Knicks Indiana Pacers series, a superstar comes to light when the herculean efforts of Jalen Brunson who scored his fourth consecutive 40 plus points game in the post season placing him in the august company of basketball gods in JERRY WEST, BERNARD KING and MICHAEL JORDAN gave them a 1 to 0 lead in the best of seven series for the second round versus Indiana Pacers.
Brunson’s 43 points performance was of course the reason that New York, that was trailing for most of the third and fourth quarter ended up stealing a game from the Pacers with a 121 to 117 victory. But that phenomenal scoring was not the whole story; it is the defensive gem in the closing minutes of the games that preserved that hard earned victory.
New York will continue to host the Pacers for Game Two hoping to continue what they did to Philadelphia to survive: end in highly contested and tight games.
BOSTON SIMPLY OVERCOME THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS 120 – 95
Highly paid Jaylen Brown scored 32 big point and lead a well- balanced Boston Celtics offense that jump started to lead from start to finish to totally stamped their class over the Donovan Mitchell lead Cleveland Cavaliers.
The whole Boston team worked as a well-oiled cohesive unit spoiling whatever comeback attempts being made by the Cavaliers who in the fourth quarter simply can’t keep up in the home court of the Celtics.
The Celtics scored 18 three pointers of which Derrick White contributed 7 (from out of 12 tries he made). White would score a total of 25 points while another star Jayson Tatum will chip in 18 points and 11 rebounds despite a woeful shooting night (7 out of 19 from the field and 0 from 5 three point attempts)
Boston however dominated the boards with 55 rebounds to the 33 of the Cavaliers thus giving them many second chance points.
Mitchell of the Cavaliers went to score 33 points but did not get much needed support from his teammates.
–OLP
