Game ID: 42300115
Philadelphia 76ers @ New York Knicks
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 7:00 PM ET
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 OT1 Final
NYK 17 32 21 27 9 106PHI 26 17 26 28 15 112
NYK vs PHI ScoutingNYK vs PHI Scouting
Welcome to the scouting desk. The coffee is cold, the film is play-by-play, and somebody has to explain what happened.
Every game has a hinge — a stretch where it was decided, usually while everyone was watching something else. Start where the evidence lives: the Lineups' face-offs say which five actually won their minutes; the Possessions ledger says who ran ahead of the night's own pace; the Shot Chart says where the points really came from, which is rarely where the highlights were. When all three agree, that is the story. When they don't — that is why this desk has a chair.
NYK availability going into 4/20 · 5 days' restBACK Burks back 4/12 after 3, 12 min since (77% of 15)
BACK Sims back 4/12 after 4, 23 min since (189% of 12)
NEW DiVincenzo 30 to 43 min over the last 5
NYK availability going into 4/22 · 1 day's restOUT Burks missed 2 since 4/14, out tonight
OUT Sims missed 2 since 4/14, out tonight
NEW Hart 35 to 40 min over the last 5
NEW DiVincenzo 30 to 40 min over the last 5
NYK availability going into 4/25 · 2 days' restOUT Achiuwa missed 2 since 4/20, returns tonight: 10 min (43% of 24)
OUT Burks missed 3 since 4/14, out tonight
OUT Sims missed 3 since 4/14, out tonight
NEW Hart 35 to 40 min over the last 5
NEW DiVincenzo 30 to 40 min over the last 5
NYK availability going into 4/28 · 2 days' restOUT Burks missed 4 since 4/14, out tonight
OUT Sims missed 4 since 4/14, out tonight
BACK Achiuwa back 4/25 after 2, 10 min since (43% of 24)
NEW Hart 35 to 43 min over the last 5
NEW DiVincenzo 30 to 37 min over the last 5
NYK availability going into 4/30 · 1 day's restOUT Burks missed 5 since 4/14, out tonight
OUT Sims missed 5 since 4/14, out tonight
BACK Achiuwa back 4/25 after 2, 15 min since (64% of 24)
NEW Brunson 36 to 42 min over the last 5
NEW Hart 35 to 44 min over the last 5
NYK availability going into 5/02 · 1 day's restOUT Burks missed 6 since 4/14, out tonight
OUT Sims missed 6 since 4/14, out tonight
BACK Achiuwa back 4/25 after 2, 15 min since (64% of 24)
NEW Brunson 36 to 44 min over the last 5
NEW Anunoby 35 to 41 min over the last 5
NEW Hart 35 to 46 min over the last 5
NEW McBride 21 to 26 min over the last 5
NYK availability going into 5/06 · 3 days' restOUT Achiuwa missed 2 since 4/30, returns tonight: 4 min (18% of 24)
OUT Burks missed 7 since 4/14, out tonight
OUT Sims missed 7 since 4/14, out tonight
NEW Brunson 36 to 44 min over the last 5
NEW Anunoby 35 to 44 min over the last 5
NEW Hart 35 to 47 min over the last 5
NYK availability going into 5/08 · 1 day's restOUT Burks missed 8 since 4/14, returns tonight: 1 min (5% of 15)
OUT Sims missed 8 since 4/14, out tonight
BACK Achiuwa back 4/25 after 2, 11 min since (48% of 24)
NEW Brunson 36 to 45 min over the last 5
NEW Anunoby 35 to 45 min over the last 5
NEW Hart 35 to 47 min over the last 5
NYK availability going into 5/10 · 1 day's restOUT Sims missed 9 since 4/14, returns tonight: 4 min (34% of 12)
BACK Achiuwa back 5/06 after 2, 16 min since (69% of 24)
BACK Burks back 5/08 after 8, 1 min since (5% of 15)
NEW Brunson 36 to 43 min over the last 5
NEW Anunoby 35 to 42 min over the last 5
NEW Hart 35 to 48 min over the last 5
NEW DiVincenzo 30 to 38 min over the last 5
NEW Hartenstein 26 to 32 min over the last 5
PHI availability going into 4/20 · 5 days' restOUT Martin missed 3 since 4/09, out tonight
BACK Harris back 4/09 after 3, 32 min since (94% of 34)
BACK Lowry back 4/12 after 2, 24 min since (83% of 29)
BACK Melton back 4/09 after 21, 11 min since (40% of 26)
BACK Bamba back 4/07 after 3, 9 min since (73% of 13)
BACK Dowtin Jr. back 4/06 after 2, 11 min since (95% of 12)
PHI availability going into 4/22 · 1 day's restOUT Melton missed 2 since 4/14, out tonight
OUT Martin missed 4 since 4/09, out tonight
BACK Harris back 4/09 after 3, 32 min since (94% of 34)
BACK Lowry back 4/12 after 2, 29 min since (101% of 29)
BACK Bamba back 4/07 after 3, 9 min since (73% of 13)
PHI availability going into 4/25 · 2 days' restOUT Melton missed 3 since 4/14, out tonight
OUT Bamba missed 2 since 4/20, out tonight
OUT Martin missed 5 since 4/09, out tonight
OUT Dowtin Jr. missed 2 since 4/20, out tonight
BACK Harris back 4/09 after 3, 34 min since (99% of 34)
BACK Lowry back 4/12 after 2, 30 min since (105% of 29)
PHI availability going into 4/28 · 2 days' restOUT Melton missed 4 since 4/14, returns tonight: 7 min (27% of 26)
OUT Bamba missed 3 since 4/20, out tonight
OUT Martin missed 6 since 4/09, out tonight
OUT Dowtin Jr. missed 3 since 4/20, out tonight
BACK Lowry back 4/12 after 2, 30 min since (105% of 29)
PHI availability going into 4/30 · 1 day's restOUT Bamba missed 4 since 4/20, out tonight
OUT Martin missed 7 since 4/09, out tonight
OUT Dowtin Jr. missed 4 since 4/20, out tonight
BACK Melton back 4/28 after 4, 7 min since (27% of 26)
NEW Embiid 35 to 40 min over the last 4
PHI availability going into 5/02 · 1 day's restOUT Hield missed 2 since 4/28, returns tonight: 22 min (88% of 24)
OUT Bamba missed 5 since 4/20, out tonight
OUT Martin missed 8 since 4/09, out tonight
OUT Dowtin Jr. missed 5 since 4/20, out tonight
BACK Melton back 4/28 after 4, 7 min since (27% of 26)
NEW Maxey 38 to 45 min over the last 5
NEW Embiid 35 to 42 min over the last 5
NEW Oubre Jr. 31 to 36 min over the last 5
I Know — the desk, before tip-off
Written before tip-off, from the five games each side brought in.
New York comes in 4-1 over its last five, scoring 109 a night and allowing 108, shooting 45 percent and 38 from three, 23 free throws a game; Brunson at 34 and Hart at 16 a game. It has won the glass by 8 a night. One day's rest. Philadelphia comes in 2-3 over its last five, scoring 106 a night and allowing 102, shooting 44 percent and 35 from three, 24 free throws a game; Embiid at 35 and Maxey at 28 a game. One day's rest.
So: New York wins, and the game turns on the glass, where New York has been plus-8 a night and Philadelphia minus-3. Call it New York 110, Philadelphia 108, Philadelphia keeping it close.
4/20 vs PHI 111-104 — NYK notes
NYK won 111-104. NYK shot 40% (36 of 91) to PHI's 44%, 16 of 35 from three, and went to the line 28 times to PHI's 22 — 23 points from the stripe to their 20. The glass went 55-33 for them. Hart led with 22 (5 of 12, 4 of 8 from three, 8 of 10 at the line); Brunson added 22, McBride 21. The hinge was Q2, 33-12: NYK came in trailing by 9 and left it ahead by 12. McBride was the night's best plus/minus at +37.
4/22 vs PHI 104-101 — NYK notes
NYK won 104-101. NYK shot 41% (37 of 91) to PHI's 43%, 11 of 33 from three. Brunson led with 24 (8 of 29, 1 of 6 from three, 7 of 9 at the line); Hart added 21, DiVincenzo 19. The hinge was Q3, 30-21: NYK came in trailing by 4 and left it ahead by 5. NYK trailed 49-53 at the half and won the second half 55-48. DiVincenzo was the night's best plus/minus at +11.
4/25 @ PHI 114-125 — NYK notes
NYK lost 114-125. NYK took 15 more shots (90 to 75), fed by 11 offensive rebounds, but shot 49% to PHI's 55%, 13 of 30 from three, and got to the line 19 times to PHI's 33. Brunson led with 39 (13 of 27, 3 of 7 from three, 10 of 12 at the line); Hart added 20, Anunoby 17. Q1 was theirs, 29-27, but the other 3 periods went 98-85 against them. Hartenstein's -24 in 26 minutes was the worst on the floor.
4/28 @ PHI 97-92 — NYK notes
NYK won 97-92. NYK shot 43% (37 of 86) to PHI's 35%, 7 of 27 from three. The glass went 52-42 for them. Brunson led with 47 (18 of 34, 2 of 8 from three, 9 of 11 at the line); Anunoby added 16, McBride 13. The hinge was Q2, 30-22: the deficit went from 10 to 2. NYK trailed 47-49 at the half and won the second half 50-43. Achiuwa was the night's best plus/minus at +11.
4/30 vs PHI 106-112 — NYK notes
NYK lost 106-112 in 1 overtime. NYK shot 47% (40 of 86) to PHI's 46%, 10 of 36 from three. Brunson led with 40 (15 of 32, 4 of 11 from three, 6 of 9 at the line); Hart added 18, Anunoby 17. Q2 was theirs, 32-17, turning a 9-point deficit into a 6-point lead, but the other 4 periods went 95-74 against them. They led by as many as 10. Anunoby's -10 in 50 minutes was the worst on the floor.
5/02 @ PHI — I Know, the desk before tip-off
Written before tip-off, from the five games each side brought in.
Philadelphia comes in 2-3 over its last five, scoring 107 a night and allowing 106, shooting 45 percent and 37 from three, 25 free throws a game; Maxey at 32 and Embiid at 32 a game. It has lost the glass by 5 a night. Without Hield (2 straight). One day's rest. New York comes in 3-2 over its last five, scoring 106 a night and allowing 107, shooting 44 percent and 35 from three, 24 free throws a game; Brunson at 34 and Hart at 17 a game. It has won the glass by 5 a night. One day's rest.
So: Philadelphia wins, and the game turns on the glass, where New York has been plus-5 a night and Philadelphia minus-5. Call it Philadelphia 110, New York 108, New York keeping it close.
5/06 vs IND — I Know, the desk before tip-off
Written before tip-off, from the five games each side brought in.
New York comes in 3-2 over its last five, scoring 108 a night and allowing 109, shooting 45 percent and 35 from three, 23 free throws a game; Brunson at 38 and Anunoby at 16 a game. Without Achiuwa (2 straight). 3 days' rest. Indiana comes in 4-1 over its last five, scoring 117 a night and allowing 110, shooting 50 percent and 37 from three, 17 free throws a game; Siakam at 20 and Turner at 20 a game. Without Smith (3 straight). 3 days' rest.
So: New York wins, and the game turns on the line, where New York takes 23 free throws a game to Indiana's 17. Call it New York 114, Indiana 113, Indiana keeping it close.
5/08 vs IND — I Know, the desk before tip-off
Written before tip-off, from the five games each side brought in.
New York comes in 3-2 over its last five, scoring 111 a night and allowing 112, shooting 48 percent and 37 from three, 24 free throws a game; Brunson at 42 and Anunoby at 16 a game. One day's rest. Indiana comes in 3-2 over its last five, scoring 115 a night and allowing 113, shooting 49 percent and 36 from three, 18 free throws a game; Turner at 20 and Haliburton at 16 a game. Without Smith (4 straight). One day's rest.
So: New York wins, and the game turns on the line, where New York takes 24 free throws a game to Indiana's 18. Call it New York 115, Indiana 114, Indiana keeping it close.
5/10 @ IND — I Know, the desk before tip-off
Written before tip-off, from the five games each side brought in.
Indiana comes in 2-3 over its last five, scoring 115 a night and allowing 115, shooting 51 percent and 40 from three, 17 free throws a game; Haliburton at 19 and Toppin at 16 a game. It has lost the glass by 5 a night. Without Smith (5 straight). One day's rest. New York comes in 4-1 over its last five, scoring 114 a night and allowing 111, shooting 49 percent and 38 from three, 24 free throws a game; Brunson at 40 and Anunoby at 19 a game. That is 3 straight wins. It has won the glass by 5 a night. One day's rest.
So: Indiana wins, and the game turns on the glass, where New York has been plus-5 a night and Indiana minus-5 and the line, where New York takes 24 free throws a game to Indiana's 17. Call it Indiana 116, New York 114, New York keeping it close.
4/20 @ NYK 104-111 — PHI notes
PHI lost 104-111. PHI shot 44% (36 of 81) to NYK's 40%, 12 of 35 from three, and got to the line 22 times to NYK's 28. The glass went 33-55 against them. Maxey led with 33 (14 of 26, 3 of 9 from three); Embiid added 29, Lowry 18. Q3 was theirs, 36-21, turning a 12-point deficit into a 3-point lead, but the other 3 periods went 90-68 against them. They led by as many as 13.
4/22 @ NYK 101-104 — PHI notes
PHI lost 101-104. PHI shot 43% (36 of 84) to NYK's 41%, 13 of 36 from three. Maxey led with 35 (12 of 22, 5 of 11 from three, 6 of 6 at the line); Embiid added 34, Harris 10. Q1 was theirs, 25-18, but the other 3 periods went 86-76 against them. They led by as many as 10.
4/25 vs NYK 125-114 — PHI notes
PHI won 125-114. PHI shot 55% (41 of 75) to NYK's 49%, 15 of 31 from three, and went to the line 33 times to NYK's 19 — 28 points from the stripe to their 13. Embiid led with 50 (13 of 19, 5 of 7 from three, 19 of 21 at the line); Maxey added 25, Oubre Jr. 15. The hinge was Q3, 43-27: PHI came in trailing by 3 and left it ahead by 13. PHI trailed 55-58 at the half and won the second half 70-56. Embiid was the night's best plus/minus at +16.
4/28 vs NYK 92-97 — PHI notes
PHI lost 92-97. PHI shot 35% (29 of 82) to NYK's 43%, 9 of 33 from three. The glass went 42-52 against them. Embiid led with 27 (7 of 19, 1 of 6 from three, 12 of 14 at the line); Maxey added 23, Oubre Jr. 19. Q1 was theirs, 27-17, but the other 3 periods went 80-65 against them. They led by as many as 12. Harris's -7 in 34 minutes was the worst on the floor.
4/30 @ NYK 112-106 — PHI notes
PHI won 112-106 in 1 overtime. PHI shot 46% (42 of 91) to NYK's 47%, 15 of 39 from three. Maxey led with 46 (17 of 30, 7 of 12 from three, 5 of 8 at the line); Harris added 19, Embiid 19. The hinge was Q1, 26-17: from level to 9 ahead. PHI trailed 43-49 at the half and won the second half 69-57. Embiid was the night's best plus/minus at +14.
5/02 vs NYK — I Know, the desk before tip-off
Written before tip-off, from the five games each side brought in.
Philadelphia comes in 2-3 over its last five, scoring 107 a night and allowing 106, shooting 45 percent and 37 from three, 25 free throws a game; Maxey at 32 and Embiid at 32 a game. It has lost the glass by 5 a night. Without Hield (2 straight). One day's rest. New York comes in 3-2 over its last five, scoring 106 a night and allowing 107, shooting 44 percent and 35 from three, 24 free throws a game; Brunson at 34 and Hart at 17 a game. It has won the glass by 5 a night. One day's rest.
So: Philadelphia wins, and the game turns on the glass, where New York has been plus-5 a night and Philadelphia minus-5. Call it Philadelphia 110, New York 108, New York keeping it close.
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
PHICP C. Payne
JE J. Embiid
KL K. Lowry
KO K. Oubre Jr.
NB N. Batum
PR P. Reed
TH T. Harris
TM T. Maxey
NYKDD D. DiVincenzo
IH I. Hartenstein
JB J. Brunson
JH J. Hart
MM M. McBride
MR M. Robinson
OA O. Anunoby
PHI/NYK the team itself, not a player
-- the feed named nobody
What
What happened
the codes in the Events column
M2 / M3 made 2 / made 3
X2 / X3 missed 2 / missed 3
FT / X1 free throw made / missed
AST assist
OR / DR offensive / defensive rebound
STL steal
BLK block
TO turnover
FL foul
OF offensive foul — ends the possession
VIOL violation
JUMP jump ball
TM timeout
IR instant replay
HE heave at the buzzer, filed to the team
END the clock ran out, ball in hand
Where
Where a shot came from
the middle field of M3.LW.25
RM at the rim inside 4 ft
RC right corner
RW right wing
SO straight on
LW left wing
LC left corner
M3.LW.25 made 3, left wing, 25 ft
X2.RM.01 missed 2, at the rim, 1 ft
When
When it happened
the Offset column
one number per event, in the Events order:
whole seconds from the start of the
possession to that event
Events FL X3.RC.23 OR M2.RM.01
Offset 0 18 22 24
the foul opens the possession at 0s;
the putback ends it at 24s, which is
the possession's own Dur
Tyrese Maxey saves Sixers from elimination with huge finish in OT win that cuts Knicks' lead to 3-2
NEW YORK -- — Tyrese Maxey made his Madison Square Garden memory, engineering a season-saving comeback with a rapid-fire flurry that evoked memories of Reggie Miller .
Not that he was thinking about his own legacy as those 3-pointers fell through the net.
“Going through my mind right there was just, find a way to survive,” Maxey said.
The 76ers did. Now they're thinking about advancing.
Maxey saved Philadelphia from elimination with seven points in the final 25 seconds of regulation, finished with 46 and led the 76ers to a 112-106 overtime victory over the New York Knicks on Tuesday night in Game 5 of their first-round series.
The Sixers trailed by six points with 28 seconds left in regulation before Maxey pulled out a comeback that had team trainer Kevin Johnson talking to him about Miller's eight points in nine seconds for Indiana in an out-of-nowhere comeback at Madison Square Garden in 1995.
Asked to describe the feeling, Maxey settled on “mandatory.”
“Like, we had to. Our season on the line,” he said.
The All-Star guard converted a four-point play with 25 seconds remaining to cut it to two, and after Josh Hart 's free throw, pulled up from 35 feet to tie it at 97 with 8.1 seconds left in front of a stunned crowd that was set to celebrate the Knicks' second straight trip to the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Joel Embiid finished with 19 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists for the Sixers, who will host Game 6 on Thursday night.
Jalen Brunson scored 40 points for the Knicks, who were thinking about a possible Game 1 of the second round at MSG on Saturday night. Instead, it could be Game 7 of this series, which seemed all but over.
“It was a tough way to lose because you get up six, eight and then we had a couple turnovers and we’ve got to just be better,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said. “Play tougher with the lead, use good judgement. Fourth quarter is different, understand the difference. So we can do better and we will.”
It was the second desperate rally to avoid what seemed like certain defeat in what has been a razor-tight series between Atlantic Division rivals. The Knicks won Game 2 after trailing by five points with under 30 seconds remaining.
Embiid, who has been ailing and missed shootaround with a headache, didn’t score like usual after coming into the game with an NBA-leading 35 points per game in the playoffs. But Maxey picked up the load, making seven 3-pointers while adding nine assists.
“I think that considering that our No. 1 option was struggling, for him to say, ‘All right, I got to put this team on my back and go,’ I just kept encouraging him, like, to take his chances, take his shots, make plays,” Sixers coach Nick Nurse said. “And he certainly did it and got in a rhythm and made a whole bunch of them.”
Maxey had the most points by a Sixers player in a win to stave off elimination, surpassing Hall of Famer Allen Iverson's 44 in a Game 7 win against Milwaukee in the 2001 Eastern Conference final.
Maxey's last 3-pointer got the 76ers on the board in overtime after Brunson scored the first five points. That triggered a 9-0 run that Embiid capped with a three-point play with 1:40 remaining for a 106-102 lead, and after Brunson’s 3 tied it at 106, Kelly Oubre Jr . made the tiebreaking basket with 1:02 to go and Tobias Harris followed with two free throws.
Harris had 19 points and Oubre scored 14.
Hart had 18 points and OG Anunoby 17 for the Knicks, who won Game 4 at Philadelphia and didn't appear like they were heading back there. But the Sixers' rally to win by six meant the No. 7 seeds have outscored the Knicks by two total points in the series.
Embiid was the target of the loud and long boos before the game even started, Knicks fans angry after his flagrant foul on Robinson in Game 3 in Philadelphia. They had plenty of chances to jeer him after Embiid also had nine turnovers in a sloppy performance.
But thanks to Maxey, Embiid might be playing in front of that MSG crowd one more time.
“It’s not hostile," Embiid said of the taunts that were frequently profane. “I mean, I love New York. New York is one of my favorite cities in the world. I have (had) a place here for the past five years. I just love New York. And then the fans, when you play against a team, they’re always going to pick that guy and they seem to have picked me, which is fun. I love it.”
Embiid shuffled slowly through the locker room a little more than an hour before the game, resting his head in his hand while he briefly sat before going to warm up. He may have lacked energy, but the 23-year-old Maxey, the winner of the NBA's Most Improved Player award, seems to have a limitless amount.
Robinson returned after missing Game 4 with a sprained left ankle, but the Knicks announced before the game that Bojan Bogdanovic would miss the rest of the playoffs and have surgery on the left foot he injured in Game 4.
The Knicks, who have flourished when Embiid is resting in the series, started a 22-5 run while he was out in the second quarter and went up by 10 points in the period. They were ahead 70-69 going to the fourth.