Jalen Brunson’s record-breaking 47-point effort carries Knicks to wild Game 4 win to put 76ers on the brink
NY Post
PHILADELPHIA — By the time Jalen Brunson left for the locker room Sunday afternoon, the Knicks and their fate were solely on his shoulders.
He had carried the team through the comeback, through the shooting struggles of his former Villanova teammates, through the battles in the paint for smidgens of space to unload his floaters, his jumpers, his array of offensive weapons.
But Brunson had left the court after his clutch and-1 to end the third quarter, begrudgingly heading to the locker room on orders from the training staff after banging knees with Kyle Lowry.
“I didn’t want to, but went back there,” Brunson said, “walked around for a couple of seconds and came back out.”
Brunson returned to cap his latest virtuoso performance — the best one yet considering the circumstances — while securing a Knicks playoff record with 47 points. It eclipsed Bernard King’s postseason mark of 46 points set (twice) in 1982. Brunson added 10 assists with just one turnover, shooting an efficient 18-for-34.
“I’ll look back when I retire,” said Brunson, who scored 61 points in a March game, one short of the franchise’s regular season-record. “Seriously, it’s great right now. It helped us get a win. But it’s not going to do anything for us going forward.”
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