Knicks vs Celtics: Tatum injured in Boston’s Game 4 loss in NBA playoffs

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New York Knicks instrumentality a 3-1 bid pb aft winning Game 4 against the reigning NBA champions Boston Celtics, who mislaid Jayson Tatum to injury.

Published On 13 May 2025

Jalen Brunson scored 26 of his 39 points successful the 2nd half, and the New York Knicks became the archetypal location squad to triumph successful the bid by defeating the Boston Celtics 121-113 to instrumentality a 3-1 bid pb successful their Eastern Conference second-round matchup.

Karl-Anthony Towns added 23 points and 11 rebounds, and Mikal Bridges besides scored 23 for the Knicks, who recovered from a 14-point third-quarter shortage connected Monday night. OG Anunoby made immoderate cardinal plays precocious portion contributing 20 points.

“They deed america early, and evidently we got into a hole,” Knicks manager Tom Thibodeau said. “I emotion the mode we fought back, and we showed a batch of toughness and much subject successful the 2nd fractional and timely plays. Everybody worked unneurotic connected some ends of the floor.”

Boston prima Jayson Tatum sustained a imaginable superior close ankle wounded precocious successful the contest. Tatum had 42 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 steals. He knocked down 7 3-pointers for the second-seeded Celtics, who squandered 20-point leads portion dropping the archetypal 2 games successful the series.

Tatum was helped disconnected the level with his close ft kept successful the aerial and was aboriginal seen being pushed to the locker country portion sitting successful a rolling chair.

“I got backmost there, talked to the aesculapian staff, and they told maine it’s a lower-body wounded for Jayson Tatum and we’ll get an MRI successful the morning,” Celtics manager Joe Mazzulla said.

Derrick White made six 3-pointers and scored 23 points, and Jaylen Brown added 20 points and 7 rebounds for Boston. Payton Pritchard added 12 points disconnected the bench.

The Knicks tin clinch the best-of-seven bid with a triumph successful Game 5 astatine Boston connected Wednesday night.

“It’s not similar we planned to beryllium successful this situation,” White said. “But we are wherever we are. We person to find a mode to triumph Game 5.”

Third-quarter detonation lifts Wolves implicit Warriors

In the different playoff crippled connected Monday, Anthony Edwards poured 11 of his 30 points into a 17-0 third-quarter flurry arsenic the Minnesota Timberwolves moved wrong 1 triumph of a 2nd consecutive berth successful the Western Conference finals with a 117-110 roadworthy triumph implicit the Golden State Warriors successful Game 4 successful San Francisco.

Julius Randle led the mode with 31 points and Jaden McDaniels contributed 10 points and 13 rebounds for the sixth-seeded Timberwolves, who person rallied from a series-opening nonaccomplishment to triumph 3 consecutive from the Stephen Curry-less Warriors.

Minnesota could clinch the best-of-seven bid successful Game 5 connected Wednesday successful Minneapolis.

Jonathan Kuminga had a team-high 23 points for seventh-seeded Golden State, which mislaid Curry to a hamstring wounded during its Game 1 win.

The Warriors antecedently announced that their standout constituent defender would beryllium re-evaluated earlier Game 5, with the anticipation of Curry returning astatine that point.

Golden State held a 60-58 halftime lead, and the crippled was tied 68-all successful the 4th infinitesimal of the 3rd play earlier Edwards turned a floater into a three-point play to ignite the decisive run.

Edwards besides buried a brace of 3-pointers and a abbreviated jumper among his 11 points, portion Mike Conley and Donte DiVincenzo drilled shots from heavy arsenic portion of a burst that lasted much than 4 minutes.

Edwards finished 6-for-11 connected 3-point attempts and Randle 4-for-8, helping the Timberwolves outscore the Warriors 48-24 from beyond the arc. Minnesota changeable 16-for-34 (47.1 percent) from beyond the arc, portion the Warriors were 8-for-27 (29.6 percent).

“The large 3rd 4th was huge,” Timberwolves manager Chris Finch said. “I thought we came retired astatine halftime with the benignant of absorption and strength and intent connected offence and attraction to item connected defence is what we needed from the start. But for the astir part, I thought we were fortunate to beryllium conscionable down a bucket astatine halftime.

“[Edwards] was 1 of the guys that was astir vocal astatine fractional clip and realised what was going connected retired determination and we needed to beryllium better. It started with him, really, and mounting the tone.”

Jimmy Butler III took conscionable 9 shots and totalled 14 points with a team-high-tying 3 assists for the Warriors. Draymond Green besides had 14 points to spell with 7 rebounds, portion Buddy Hield scored 13 and Brandin Podziemski had 11 to complement 4 steals.

“[The Timberwolves] played a large crippled and evidently took it to us, and we’ve got to bounce back,” Warriors manager Steve Kerr said. “We’ve got a formation to Minneapolis time and a accidental to widen the series, and that’s the plan.”