The New York Knicks just keep winning. They practically did so twice Wednesday night against the Denver Nuggets.
In double overtime, without Karl-Anthony Towns — who fouled out in the first extra frame — as well as Josh Hart and Miles McBride — who both didn’t play Wednesday night because of injury — Jalen Brunson sparked an 8-0 run that gave the Knicks (33-18) enough separation to finally hold on for a 134-127 victory over the Nuggets (33-19).
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Double overtime only took place because of a loose-ball foul on Mikal Bridges with 0.3 seconds remaining. It appeared as the Knicks already had their eighth straight win once Jamal Murray missed a 3. Madison Square Garden erupted as such.
But after review, the officials ruled that Bridges shoved a rebound-hunting Christian Braun just before buzzer, resulting in a trip to the charity stripe for the fourth-year guard, who was in his second game back from a lingering ankle injury. Braun made both free throws to extend the game.
Brunson had a chance to win the game in the waning moments of regulation, but his step-back jumper was off the mark. So was Nikola Jokić’s last-second heave, a 27-foot 3-pointer from the edge of the Knicks’ logo that nearly banked in.
Technically still on a minutes restriction following his return from a bone bruise in his hyperextended left knee, Jokić played about twice as long as he was expected to, finishing with a triple-double — 30 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists — in a whopping 45 minutes.
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