
Jalen Brunson is the Knicks’ clutch time cheat code
NY Post
You can’t argue with the numbers.
Jalen Brunson’s latest clutch-time performance Wednesday night bailed the Knicks out of what would have been one of their ugliest losses of the season.
Instead, the captain’s 12 points over the final five minutes of the fourth quarter — including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:26 to play — lifted the Knicks to a needed victory after they had coughed up a 19-point lead to a Sixers squad that now has lost nine games in a row without injured star Joel Embiid.
This late-game showing was not out of the norm for Brunson, who leads the NBA in the league’s clutch scoring statistics for the season.
Clutch time is defined as the final five minutes of the fourth quarter or overtime when the score is within five points in either direction.
Brunson is averaging the most points in the NBA in that metric, 5.5 per game, with the most made field goals (37) and a .514 shooting percentage in 21 such situations this season.

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