Karl-Anthony Towns scores 44 points, Knicks rally in 2nd half to beat Heat 116-107

Karl-Anthony Towns had 44 points and 12 rebounds, Jalen Brunson scored 18 of his 22 points successful nan 2nd half and nan New York Knicks rallied to hit nan Miami Heat 116-107 connected Wednesday night

MIAMI -- Karl-Anthony Towns had 44 points and 12 rebounds, Jalen Brunson scored 18 of his 22 points successful nan 2nd half and nan New York Knicks rallied to hit nan Miami Heat 116-107 connected Wednesday night.

Towns had nan fourth-most points for nan Knicks against nan Heat. Jamal Crawford scored 52 successful 2007, Carmelo Anthony had 50 astatine Miami successful 2013 and RJ Barrett 46 successful 2022.

Mikal Bridges added 17 points for New York, which trailed by 13 successful nan 3rd 4th earlier flipping nan game. OG Anunoby had 11 points and Josh Hart vanished pinch 10 points, 14 rebounds and six assists.

Tyler Herro had 34 points for Miami, hitting 8 3-pointers. Terry Rozier scored 16 points, Jimmy Butler had 15, Bam Adebayo 11 and Nikola Jovic 10.

Miami was again without Kevin Love. He has missed each 4 games this play for individual reasons.

Knicks: Towns was 17 of 24 from nan field, 4 for 5 from 3-point range, and had 24 of his 44 points successful nan first half to support New York close.

Heat: Butler and Adebayo are a mixed 2 for 13 successful first quarters this season. Butler is 1 for 8, Adebayo 1 for 5. They were — by acold — Miami’s leaders successful first-quarter section goals past season, Adebayo pinch 146 and Butler pinch 125.

The Knicks ended nan 3rd 4th connected a 30-10 run, turning a 70-57 shortage into an 87-80 lead.

Opponents 100, Heat 54. That's nan mixed third-quarter people successful Miami's 3 location games this season. Opponents are shooting 54% successful those quarters, nan Heat 27%.

New York goes to Detroit connected Friday nighttime for nan 2nd crippled of a four-game trip. Miami plays successful Mexico City against Washington connected Saturday night.

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