
Knicks use balanced attack to hammer Hornets as win streak hits four
NY Post
Less than one week earlier, the Knicks had allowed an undermanned Charlotte squad to hang around the entire game before Tom Thibodeau’s team escaped with a one-point victory.
The Hornets played them tough for two quarters despite missing several top players again Thursday night, but the Knicks pulled away with a 38-16 third-quarter eruption to cruise to their fourth straight win, 125-101, at the Garden.
“I think we put ourselves in a hole in the first quarter and then cut it to two obviously right before [halftime]. And then the beginning of the second half is how we should have started the game,” Jalen Brunson said. “We came out with a lot of energy defensively, got stops and easy baskets and that’s that.”
The All-Star point guard notably left the bench and headed for the locker room with 2:39 left in the third quarter.

Cade Cunningham, almost inarguably the best player in the East this season, is likely out for the remainder of the regular season. That’s the word out of Detroit following the depressing news that Cunningham punctured a lung when he took a knee to his side Tuesday from Washington’s Tre Johnson while chasing a loose ball.

Wednesday was another positive day at Yankees camp. For the first time since March 6, 2025 — an outing in which he knew “something wasn’t right,” which began a weeks-long saga that ended on the operating table for Tommy John surgery — Gerrit Cole was back on a mound and facing hitters in game action.











