Knicks, convincing victory against the Pacers

Convincing success by the Knicks who, already certain of playoff qualification, rested (in addition to the injured Julius Randle) also RJ Barrett and Jalen Brunson, leaving room for the young talents of the team who went wild against Indiana in a match always controlled by New York – without ever making a vacuum in terms of scoring – with the Pacers not going beyond Jalen Smith’s 19 points; one of eight double-digit players on a roster experimenting in this regular season finale.

The news of the night at the Knicks – who shoot with 52% of the team from the field – is the surrender of the Quickley-Grimes-Toppin trio: the first scores 39 points and stops just one point away from his career high, the second puts in 36 (never so many in the NBA for him), while the third adds 32 while also distributing six assists. The peculiarity of the all-30+ point trio is that each of them scores at least five triples: it had never happened before in NBA history, while tonight the encore even arrived.