Game ID: 22500018
Boston Celtics @ New York Knicks
Friday, October 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM ET
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
NYK 22 42 18 23 105BOS 30 14 21 30 95
BOS @ NYK ScoutingBOS @ NYK 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 10/22 · season opener
full strength
NYK availability going into 10/24 · 1 day's rest
full strength
NYK availability going into 10/26 · 1 day's rest
full strength
NYK availability going into 10/28 · 1 day's rest
full strength
NYK availability going into 10/31 · 2 days' restOUT McBride missed 2 since 10/26, returns tonight: 29 min (123% of 24)
NYK availability going into 11/02 · 1 day's restBACK McBride back 10/31 after 2, 29 min since (123% of 24)
BOS availability going into 10/22 · season opener
full strength
BOS availability going into 10/24 · 1 day's rest
full strength
BOS availability going into 10/26 · 1 day's rest
full strength
BOS availability going into 10/27 · back-to-back
full strength
BOS availability going into 10/29 · 1 day's rest
full strength
BOS availability going into 10/31 · 1 day's restNEW Minott 16 to 22 min over the last 4
10/22 vs CLE 119-111 — NYK notes
NYK won 119-111. NYK shot 43% (37 of 86) to CLE's 47%, 14 of 40 from three, and went to the line 36 times to CLE's 18 — 31 points from the stripe to their 12. The glass went 48-32 for them. Anunoby led with 24 (9 of 17, 4 of 9 from three); Brunson added 23, Towns 19. The hinge was Q1, 33-23: from level to 10 ahead, and the lead reached 17. McBride was the night's best plus/minus at +17.
10/24 vs BOS 105-95 — NYK notes
NYK won 105-95. NYK shot 38% (33 of 86) to BOS's 43%, 17 of 45 from three, and went to the line 25 times to BOS's 15 — 22 points from the stripe to their 10. The glass went 53-37 for them. Brunson led with 31 (10 of 20, 3 of 7 from three, 8 of 9 at the line); Towns added 26, Bridges 12. The hinge was Q2, 42-14: NYK came in trailing by 8 and left it ahead by 20, and the lead reached 24. Bridges was the night's best plus/minus at +15.
11/02 vs CHI — I Know, the desk before tip-off
Written before tip-off, from the five games each side brought in.
New York comes in 2-3 over its last five, scoring 113 a night and allowing 115, shooting 42 percent and 34 from three, 26 free throws a game; Brunson at 31 and Bridges at 19 a game. That is 3 straight losses. It has won the glass by 8 a night. One day's rest. Chicago comes in 5-0 over its last five, scoring 123 a night and allowing 114, shooting 50 percent and 40 from three, 27 free throws a game; Giddey at 22 and Vučević at 20 a game. That is 5 straight wins. It has won the glass by 6 a night. One day's rest.
So: Chicago wins, on the road, and the game turns on the arc, Chicago at 40 percent from three to New York's 34. Call it Chicago 118, New York 115, New York keeping it close.
10/22 vs PHI 116-117 — BOS notes
BOS lost 116-117. BOS shot 45% (41 of 91) to PHI's 46%, 11 of 43 from three. Brown led with 25 (9 of 18, 2 of 4 from three, 5 of 6 at the line); White added 25, Queta 17. Q3 was theirs, 35-18, turning a 6-point deficit into a 11-point lead, but the other 3 periods went 99-81 against them. They led by as many as 13.
10/24 @ NYK 95-105 — BOS notes
BOS lost 95-105. BOS shot 43% (35 of 82) to NYK's 38%, 15 of 44 from three, and got to the line 15 times to NYK's 25. The glass went 37-53 against them. Brown led with 23 (9 of 18, 3 of 7 from three); Hauser added 18, White 15. Q1 was theirs, 30-22, but the other 3 periods went 83-65 against them. Brown's -14 in 35 minutes was the worst on the floor.
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
BOSAS A. Simons
AW A. Williams
BS B. Scheierman
CB C. Boucher
DW D. White
GO Gonzalez
HG H. González
JB J. Brown
NQ N. Queta
PP P. Pritchard
SH S. Hauser
XT X. Tillman
NYKGY G. Yabusele
JB J. Brunson
JC J. Clarkson
JH J. Hart
KT K. Towns
LS L. Shamet
MB M. Bridges
MM M. McBride
OA O. Anunoby
TK T. Kolek
BOS/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
Brunson scores 31 points, Knicks ride huge 2nd quarter to 105-95 victory over the Celtics
NEW YORK -- — Jalen Brunson scored 31 points, Karl-Anthony Towns had 26 points and 13 rebounds and the New York Knicks rode a huge second quarter to a 105-95 victory over the Boston Celtics on Friday night and a 2-0 start to the season.
The Knicks outscored the Celtics 42-14 in the second quarter en route to a 64-44 halftime lead. It appeared they would blow out Boston at Madison Square Garden for the second straight time, after rolling to a 119-81 victory in Game 6 to eliminate the Celtics last season in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
The Knicks played a sloppy third quarter and the Celtics cut it to single digits in the fourth, but Brunson had a couple baskets to help them build back a cushion.
Jaylen Brown scored 23 points on his 29th birthday for the Celtics, who fell to 0-2. They also gave up 42 points in the fourth quarter of their 117-116 loss to Philadelphia on Wednesday. San Hauser added 18 points on six 3-pointers.
Josh Hart made his season debut for the Knicks with 14 rebounds in 19 minutes off the bench after hurting his lower back in the preseason opener. But OG Anunoby limped off midway through the fourth after appearing to hurt his knee or upper thigh when he landed trying to block a shot.
The Celtics led 30-22 after one quarter, but the Knicks started the second with an 11-0 run to take the lead. Hauser and Derrick White made consecutive 3-pointers to put the Celtics back ahead 36-33, but New York scored 17 unanswered points to make it 50-36, then got the final 12 of the half to make it 64-44.