Knicks 117 vs 123 Celtics summary stats, score and highlights | NBA Regular Season

The Knicks would claw back into the game in the fourth quarter. They would go on a big run and close the lead to 3, but the Celtics would hold off New York as Brown capped his night off with 42 points. 

Brown went into the break hot, and came out hot. There was no answer from the Knicks for Brown who led the way in the third quarter as Boston ended the third on a 12-0 run. 

Hugo Gonzalez came off the bench and changed the game with his defense. KAT had a nice start to the night but Gonzalez locked him down in the 2nd quarter and the Celtics turned an 11 point deficit to a 6 point lead at the half time break. 

The Boston Celtics came up with a big home win over a top team in the Eastern Conference thanks to a huge night from Jaylen Brown. He went for 42 points in the Celtics win over the New York Knicks. 

Brown had a slow start to the game, scoring just 4 points in the first quarter. Boston hit just 1/11 of their threes and trailed by 11, but Brown got hot in the 2nd quarter. He had 10 straight points to start the quarter and dropped 18 of his 22 first half points after the first 12 minutes. 

IT'S ALL OVER!!!

Boston hold off the Knicks to take a big win over a top team in the East. 

Brown caps his game off with a slam dunk and ends this game with a bang. 

Brunson straight to the cup and he lays it up and in. 

White lays it up and that should do it. 

Bridges with another three ball, that's 30 i the 2nd half and 8 threes!

Bridges to the rack and he throws it down. 

White to the line after the foul on Brunson and he hits both FTs. 

Brunson sends Brown to the line and he hits both FTs with 1:47 to go. 

Walsh drives baseline and he hits the lay up in traffic!

Bridges with another three ball, this one from the wing and he's got 25 in the second half!

Bridges sends Brown to the line and he hits one of two FTs. 

KAT dumps it off for Hart cutting hitting and drawing the foul. FT is good after the foul on MInott. 

White pump fakes, takes a dribble and drills the three from the wing!

Brunson finds KAT open down low and he slams it home and gets the foul! FT is good after the foul on Hauser. 

Brown missed the lay up but Walsh was there again and he put the rebound back up and in. 

TImeout Knicks with under 5:00 to go. 

Simons missed the three ball but Walsh crashes the boards and tips it in. 

Brunson to the cup and he lays it up and in. Let's see if that gets him going. 

White kicks it out to Minott who comes out of the timeout and drills a three!

Bridges drops a three ball again, and iti's a 3 point game after a 12-0 run from NY!

TImeout Celtics with 6:28 to go. 

KAT follows up the miss from Brunson and he hits the put back and gets the foul! FT is good. 

Bridges fouled by Gonzalez on the three ball and that is goingi to be called a flagrant foul as he landed in the shooters zone. Bridges hits all three and NY get the ball back. 

Bridges sinks a deep three ball from the wing!

Simons to the cup and he gets the bucket and the foul! FT is good after the foul on Kolek. 

Hauser sinks the triple out of the timeout to stop the Knicks run. 

Kolek into the lane and he gets the leaner to fall. 

Timeout Celtics with 9:39 to go in the 4th. 

Clarkson banks in the three and gets fouled by Pritchard! FT is good. 

KAT with a quick trigger and he hits the three from the wing!

Gonzalez lays it up and in after a pump fake on the perimeter. 

KAT inside and he puts it up and in. 

WE ARE HEADING TO THE FOURTH QUARTER AND THE CELTICS CLOSE IT OUT ON A 12-0 RUN!!!

White closes out the quarter with a three ball from the wing!!!!

Hauser spots up from long range on the break and he drills it!

Brown on the pull up off the dribble and he hits it over RObinson. 

Browns spins away from Brunson and he hits the leaner from the FT line. That's 35 for him. 

Simons in the paint and he floats it up and in. 

KAT slashing down the lane and he lays it up in traffic. 

KAT muscles his way to the bucket and lays it up and in out of the timeout. 

Brown on the fader from outside the paint and the Knicks are going to take a timeout with under 4:00 to go in the 3rd quarter. 

Bridges pulls the trigger from deep and he is red hot with 13 points in the quarter. 

White off the dribble and he drills the trey from the wing!

Brunson drives and kicks to Bridges for the three ball in the corner!

Brown gets the roll off the elbow jumper. 

Minott in the corner and he answers back with a three ball!

McBride off the curl and he drills the three ball from the wing!

Brown slices through the defense and lays it up and in. 

Bridges wiggles his way down to the paint and lays it up in traffic. 

Timeout BOS with under 7:00 to go in the 3rd quarter. 

Queta with the tip slam after the missed three from White. 

Brunson to the cup and the lays it up and in off the glass. 

Bridges running the break and he lays it up and in in traffic. 

Prichard pulls up from in the lane and he hits the short jumper. 

Pritchard drags down the long rebound and spots up for a three ball from the wing!

Hart with a strong drive on the break and he lays it up and in. 

Bridges answers back with a three ball off the kick out from Brunson. 

Brown sinks a three ball and he's off to another hot start to a quarter.

Brown to the line after the foul on Bridges and he hits both FTs. 

WE ARE BACK IN BOSTON FOR THE SECOND HALF!

Brown carried the C's on the offensive end but Hugo Gonzalez changed this game on the defensive end. He brought energy off the bench and the rookie is winning the hearts of Boston fans already. 

The Celtics were down by 11 at the quarter change and Brown went wild to start the second. He had 10 straight points, and put up 18 in the 2nd quarter. 

It was all Knicks in the first quarter. They had a double digit lead in the first couple of minutes and stretched that out as the quarter went on. 

KAT was pushing people around in the first quarter, but that kind of stopped in the second quarter with Hugo Gonzalez guarding him. 

The Knicks got off to a hot start from downtown, and no one more so than Josh Hart who had 11 points in the first half. 

WE ARE AT THE END OF THE FIRST HALF FROM BOSTON!!!

Brown pulls up from the elbow and he drills it. He's got 18 in the 2nd quarter. 

Hart with the kick to Bridges and he drills the quick trigger three!

Brown dumps it off for Pritchard on the break and he lays it up and in. 

Knicks timeout with 2:24 to go in the half. 

White with the long rebound and he sprints down court for the jam. 

Brown into the lane and he floats it up over Brunson. 

Robinson T'd up and Pritchard hits the FT. 

Yabusele to the line after the foul on Pritchard and he hits one of two FTs. 

Brunson pulls up and he hits it from the elbow. 

White wiggles into the lane and he floats it up and in. 

Brown shakes Brunson at the perimeter and takes it hard to the rack for the two handed jam!

Timeout Knicks with 4:46 to go in the half. 

Brown to the line after the foul on Clarkson and he hits both FTs. 

White with the pump fake and three ball from the top of the key and he gets the roll!

Hart quiets the crowd with a corner three, he's 4/4 from downtown!

Brown kicks it out and finds MInott with a corner three ball!

KAT was blocked, but followed up the shot and got the lay up to fall. 

Cohen takes a dribble and hits the runner off the bank. 

Brown back to the rack and he gets the bucket and the foul on Hart. FT is good. 

Brown sinks a three ball from the top of the key and he's got 7 in the quarter already!

Brown scoops up the loose ball and takes it coast to coast for the lay up. 

McBride loses the ball and Brown takes it for the slam off the turnover. 

Timeout NY with under 10:00 to go in the half. 

Pritchard puts the defender on his back side and scoops it up and in. 

KAT going to the rack and he puts it up and in over Queta. 

Simons on the step back and he hits it from elbow. 

KAT drills a three ball from the top of the key off the dish from McBride. 

Gonzalez with the loose rebound and lays it up and in. 

KAT to the bucket and gets it to go in traffic. 

WE ARE AT THE END OF THE FIRST QUARTER WITH NY LEADING BY 11. 

Brunson to the line after the foul on Simons and he hits one of two FTs. 

Simons steps into a three ball and he strings it off the dish from Sheierman. 

Brunson wraps around on the defender from the block and lays it up and in. 

Robinson fouled intentionally again, and it's under 2:00 to go in the quarter so Brunson gets a FT that he makes. 

Pritchard misses the three ball but Minott is there with the tip in. 

Robnson sent to the FT line and he hits one of two FTs after the intentional foul on Williams. 

Timeout Knicks with 2:55 to go in the first quarter. 

Simons with a quick step to the bucket and he lays it up and in. 

Burnson with the steal and he looks up for Bridges for the lay up on the break. 

Brown into the lane and he floats it up and in. 

Hart with a step back and he bangs home another three!

Queta slashes to the bucket and jams it off the feed from White. 

Brunson kicks out to Hart from the baseline and he drills the three ball from the wing!

Brown missed the elbow jumper but Walsh came streaking in for the tip in. 

Pritchard lobs over the top for Queta for the alley oop. 

KAT backing down his defender and he puts it up and over him in the paint. 

Brown comes out of the timeout and gets on the board with the mid range jumper. 

Hart with the offensive board and it ends up in the hands of McBride for the trey from the wing. 

Timeout BOS with 8:30 to go in the 1st quarter. 

White with a leaner from outside the lane and he gets it to go and gets the foul on Hart. 

Towns down low and he muscles his way to the bucket for the lay up and the foul! FT is good after the foul on Walsh. 

McBride in the corner pocket and he drills the three ball off the kick out from Bridges. 

Hart pulls up and hits the mid range jumper from the elbow. 

White finds Queta slashing to the cup for the jam down the lane. 

Brunson on the step back from the wing and he drills the deep ball. 

Hart strings a three ball in the corner off the feed from Brunson to start us off. 

WE ARE UNDERWAY FROM TD GARDEN!!!

Knicks can catch fire 

The Knicks have proven to be one of the most explosive teams in the league, and they showed that again last game when they dropped 41 on the Raptors in the first quarter. They lead the NBA in 40 point quarters with 9 in the first 19 games of the season. That’s one almost every two games, which puts them well ahead of the next best teams which have 6 40 point quarters. It should come as no surprise that the Knicks are a top-5 scoring team averaging 120.4 a game but Boston is the second best defensive team behind the Thunder allowing just 110.9 ppg. 

Tatum update 

Jayson Tatum suffered a devastating injury in the playoffs last season and Boston was hit with the reality that he wouldn’t just be out for the rest of the playoffs, but for most of the regular season in 25/26. The Celtics haven’t ruled him out for the entire year, and according to his teammate Sam Hauser he is on track to getting back on the court as soon as possible. “He’s (Tatum) staying mentally, physically, emotionally prepared,” Hauser told the Boston Globe’s Adam Himmelsbach on Friday. “He’s working his tail off every day, as you can see. And his presence is still felt even though he’s not out there with us.”

Eastern Conference Standings 

Mind you, we are just about a quarter of a way through the season, but it’s never too early to look at the standings. Taking a look at the East coming into tonight, the Pistons are the top team in the conference, but the Knicks are right behind them in 2nd place over the Heat and Raptors who are chasing them in 3rd and 4th. We haven’t seen the Celtics this far down the ladder is a long time, but they are just a few games behind the third place Heat and this game tonight could go a long way in building some momentum heading into the new year. 

Burnson on another level 

We all know how good Jalen Brunson is but the coach of the Toronto Raptors, Darko Rajakovic was quick to lavish praise upon the Knicks star. E didn’t shy away from putting Brunson in the NBA Elite category. “We had a discussion about that this morning in the coach’s meeting — he is the type of player that I can put in the category of Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic,” Rajakovic said. “Different position, obviously, but guys who are just playing at their own pace. You cannot speed them up. Their awareness is amazing. At any point of time they know where the hand of the defensive player is.

Star watch: Celtics 

It’s crazy to see that Jaylen Brown has only had 4 triple doubles in his career, but when you are sharing the ball with Jayson Tatum on a nightly basis it’s understandable that the stats will also be shared. This year that’s not the case or at least not now. Tatum is still sidelined with his lengthy injury so that means it’s up to Brown to carry the team. He is taking on more the a scoring burden and averaging a career high 28.4 point a game, but he’s also got a career high in assists per game and flirting with a career high in rebounds per game. Brown is having an outstanding season, but he will need his teammates to step up like Pirtchard did last game until Tatum comes back. 

Star watch: Knicks 

Get ready for a big night from Jalen Brunson. He is alway willing to step to the spotlight in a big game on the national stage, and tonight he will be itching to make up for a slow night on the offensive end against the Toronto Raptors. He’s having another All-Star type season, averaging 28.5 points, 3.4 rebounds and 6.2 assists a game. Tonight in Boston you know the Knicks will be working their offense around him looking for a fifth straight win on the shoulders of the Eastern Conference Player of the week. 

Celtics last game

The Celtics went into the house of the one seed in the East last year and came out of Cleveland with a narrow victory over the Cavaliers. Boston got a season high performance from their sharp shooter Payton Pritchard who dropped 42 points on 15/22 shooting and Jaylen Brown posted his fourth career triple double but the game came down to the wire. Boston went into the 4th quarter up 11 but Clevland gave them all they could handle in the final moments of the game, but it was Jaylen Brown at the FT line hitting the first FT to make it 117-115 and missing the the second with 0.7 and the C’s close out the Cavs. 

Knicks last game 

The Knicks met the Raptors in a battle of top teams in the Eastern Conference and it was New York rattling off their 4th straight win thanks to a big first quarter in which they scored 41 points and took a 19 point lead into the second quarter. The Raptors would try and chip into the lead as the game went on but all five starters for the Knicks had 14+ points on a night that Jalen Brunson shot just 6/19 from the field. KAT led the way with 22 and 8 rebounds and the Knicks cruised to victory in the final minutes of the fourth quarter. 

We are live from TD Garden

Hello everyone and welcome to Boston where the Boston Celtics return home after a quick road trip and tonight they take on a top team in the East looking to prove they can hand with some of the early season front runners. The New York Knicks have won their last four games and hover at the top of the standings coming into tonight. Throw records and recent form out the window when these two teams play. It’s Boston and New York in another epic showdown between two NBA blue bloods. 

Knicks vs. Celtics  

It’s one of the most historic rivalries in the NBA and tonight we write a new chapter as two of the most legendary franchises go head to head in a mid season battle. The Boston Celtics host the New York Knicks and AS English will be with you all night providing live coverage, stats, highlights and analysis of tonight’s game from TD Garden.