

The Celtics put together a push late in regulation of their first game under coach Ime Udoka and Smart tied it with a 3-pointer at the buzzer.

Fournier then hit his fourth 3-pointer of the overtimes with 56 seconds to go and Derrick Rose finished it off with a basket with 22 seconds to play as the Knicks finally put away a game they seemed to have won much earlier. Jayson Tatum had the biggest basket of his awful opener with a three-point play that gave Boston a 134-133 lead with 1:05 remaining. ''It would have bene better if we got a win,'' he added. ''Toward the end I could feel my heart beating through my chest. ''My breathing felt irregular but fine for the most part,'' Brown said. Randle scored 35 points, Evan Fournier made the go-ahead 3-pointer in the second overtime and added 32 against his former team, and the Knicks outlasted Brown and the Boston Celtics 138-134 on Wednesday night.īrown scored a career-high 46 points after overcoming COVID-19, playing 46 minutes after spending most of the last 10 days in quarantine. ''At the end of the day, we found a way to win a game,'' Julius Randle said. More mistakes than they'd like, but not enough to ruin their season opener. NEW YORK (AP) The New York Knicks never could contain Jaylen Brown and on the last play of regulation completely lost track of Marcus Smart.
