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The Comeback Part II: Knicks Stun Celtics and Boston Again with 20-Point Comeback

 KNICKS 91 - CELTICS 90 

So to all the doubters, what do you say now? Bill Simmons? Colin Cowherd? What do you say now? 

After Monday's thrilling 108-105 Knicks comeback victory over Boston, many in the media tired to paint the game as an aberration, with Cowherd calling the victory "meaningless," and that New York wouldn't win another game again in this series. 

Jalen Brunson with the dish. Getty Images.


Well, apparently the Knicks didn't get that memo. If you didn't believe Monday night, you better start believing now. 

The Knicks once again stormed back from a 20-point third quarter deficit to shock the Boston Celtics 91-90 at TD Bank Garden to take a 2-0 series lead. 

If New York Knicks fans weren't already hysterical over the Game 1 comeback, they will be off the wall all day on Thursday.  

The reason the Knicks find themselves here is because they just don't know how to accept defeat. They keep fighting, and turned Game 2 into a street brawl, something Boston didn't want to play. Blocked shots, forced shots, strips, turnovers. The Knicks scratched, punched and clawed their way back into Game 2 as Boston lost complete grip of this series at the moment. 


 

The game started turning when Boston couldn't add to a 73-53 lead with 3:12 to go in the fourth quarter. Over the next three plus minutes the Knicks defense suffocated Boston.  Four missed shots, three turnovers, and a personal foul to boot. Meanwhile the Knicks kept plugging along as Miles McBride and Josh Hart traded mammoth three pointers that narrowed the deficit down to 12. 

 But even though Boston did find a way to rebound a bit early in the fourth quarter. It took a Mitchell Robinson eight foot jumper following a heads up rebound by Hart off a blocked shot with 8:27 to go that really ignited the comeback. 

For the rest of the night the Knicks went on a 21-6 run and never looked back as they sped past Boston. 

Mikal Bridges hit a huge three with 5:51 to go to cut the deficit to seven. Then Jalen Brunson nailed a three-pointer to bring it down to 86-80. 


 

Finally after a pair of buckets by Hart and Karl Anthony Towns, Brunson put the Knicks in front for the first time all night with an 18-footer inside the arch for a long distance two to give the Knicks an 87-86 lead. 

With New York clinging to a one-point lead with 18.1 seconds to play, Jayson Tatum breezed through the Knicks line for a slam dunk to put Boston up 90-89, but Bruson and company would not be deterred. 


 

Brunson nailed back-to-back free throws off a shooting foul on Jrue Holiday to give the Knicks a 91-90 lead. 

Finally, it was up to the Knicks defense yet again, and they were up to the task forcing an errant pass by Tatum as the clocked ticked away! 

The Knicks bench exploded. New York City exploded! The entire Tri-State area went nuts! 

The Knicks are up 2-0. You better believe!

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