New York Knicks @ Portland Trail Blazers
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM ET
Moda Center, Portland, OR | Game ID: 22400953
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 OT1 Final
POR 21 25 31 29 7 113NYK 26 22 29 29 8 114
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Bridges nails 3-pointer at buzzer to give Knicks a 114-113 OT win over the Trail Blazers
PORTLAND , Ore. -- — Mikal Bridges hit a 25-foot 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the New York Knicks a 114-113 overtime win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night.
Bridges finished with 33 points and AG Anunoby had 23 as New York won its second in a row and improved to 2-2 on its five-game West Coast trip with one game remaning.
Scoot Henderson led Portland with 30 points, while Deni Avdija had 27 points — including a three-point play with three seconds left in overtime to give the Trail Blazers a brief 113-111 lead — but Portland lost its fifth in a row. Avdija also had 15 rebounds.
Karl-Anthony Towns shot 8 of 12 from the field, including two 3-pointers late in regulation, to finish with 21 points for the Knicks.
Henderson scored eight points in the final 1:06 of regulation — a 3-point shot, a three-point play and a pair of free throws with three seconds left — to tie the game 106-all and send it into overtime.
Takeaways With Jalen Brunson expected to miss at least two weeks with a right ankle sprain, New York's immediate future looked bleak, but the win Wednesday helped the team salvage some hope and pull within 4 1/2 games of the Celtics in the Atlantic Division.
Portland lost its fifth in a row and the first of a seven-game homestand. At 28-39, the Trail Blazers will have to step it on their home court over the next six games to have any hope of making the postseason.
Key moment The Knicks' Miles McBride and Mitchell Robinson both had blocks in the waning seconds of overtime.
Key stat Portland was just 16 of 25 from the free-throw line and had 23 turnovers to the Knicks 15.
Up next The Knicks conclude a five-game West Coast trip at Golden State on Saturday night. The Trail Blazers play host to Toronto on Sunday night.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
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Who
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
NYKCP C. Payne
JH J. Hart
KT K. Towns
LS L. Shamet
MB M. Bridges
MM M. McBride
MR M. Robinson
OA O. Anunoby
PA P. Achiuwa
PORAS A. Simons
DA D. Avdija
DC D. Clingan
DR D. Reath
JW J. Walker
KM K. Murray
SH S. Henderson
SS S. Sharpe
TC T. Camara
NYK/POR 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
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