{"id":445839,"date":"2025-12-14T05:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/445839\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:30:27","slug":"jalen-brunsons-40-points-lead-knicks-past-orlando-magic-in-nba-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/445839\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson&#8217;s 40 points lead Knicks past Orlando Magic in NBA Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Jalen Brunson scored at least 30 points for the fourth consecutive game, his season-high 40 leading the Knicks past the Orlando Magic 132-120 on Saturday and putting New York in the NBA Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks, who have won five in a row and nine of 10, will play San Antonio on Tuesday night for the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Brunson also had eight assists and made 16 of 27 shots, including a 3-pointer in the third quarter after Orlando\u2019s Anthony Black fell backward onto the floor. Karl-Anthony Towns had 29 points and OG Anunoby scored 24 for the Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Suggs scored 25 of his 26 points in the first half for the Magic before leaving in the fourth quarter because of a sore left hip. Paolo Banchero added 25 points and Desmond Bane scored 18.<\/p>\n<p>SPURS 111, THUNDER 109<\/p>\n<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama returned from a 12-game absence with 22 points and nine rebounds, giving San Antonio a surge and Oklahoma City just its second loss.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs play the New York Knicks in Tuesday night\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma\u2019s last defeat was Nov. 5 at Portland, and the Thunder carried a 16-game winning streak into this game. They now are 24-2, the second-best start behind only the 25-1 record by Golden State in 2015-16.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Thunder\u2019s second loss in a row in Las Vegas. They also <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bucks-thunder-nba-cup-e2192d834aecde6aac04cb2058b7d03e?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:lost last year\u2019s final to Milwaukee 97-81;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">lost last year\u2019s final to Milwaukee 97-81<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama, who received \u201cM-V-P\u201d chants from the pro-Spurs crowd, had a plus-21 rating in 21 minutes. Teammate Devin Vassell scored 23 points and De\u2019Aaron Fox and Stephon Castle each scored 22.<\/p>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder with 29 points, Chet Holmgren and Jalen Williams each totaled 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Jalen Brunson scored at least 30 points for the fourth consecutive game, his season-high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":445840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[192376,7943,7200,8612,23226,28462,24114,33389,3367,24115,8606,2184,6375,1260,17380,6949,3121,65357,30232,23077,7202,3371,62,7199,12551,67,132,68,4714],"class_list":{"0":"post-445839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-anthony-black","9":"tag-chet-holmgren","10":"tag-deaaron-fox","11":"tag-desmond-bane","12":"tag-devin-vassell","13":"tag-golden-state","14":"tag-jalen-brunson","15":"tag-jalen-suggs","16":"tag-jalen-williams","17":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","18":"tag-knicks","19":"tag-las-vegas","20":"tag-milwaukee","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-og-anunoby","23":"tag-oklahoma-city","24":"tag-orlando-magic","25":"tag-paolo-banchero","26":"tag-points","27":"tag-portland","28":"tag-san-antonio","29":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-spurs","32":"tag-stephon-castle","33":"tag-united-states","34":"tag-unitedstates","35":"tag-us","36":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115716280971095052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}