Led by Karl-Anthony Towns, New York achieves a ninth consecutive victory

After seven minutes, Tom Thibodeau had the mask on the bench seeing Lauri Markkanen (16 points, 10 rebounds) absorb the contact of OG Anunoby for a basket plus the foul in the circle and ten points ahead in favor of the Jazz (8-18, 7th). But the awakening of the New Yorkers was immediate and with a huge dunk from Precious Achiuwa on the head of rookie Kyle Filipowski, the Knicks plugged the hole (24-25, 13th). Without Brunson and McBride, the Big Apple franchise still distilled 31 assists, led by a triple-double from Josh Hart (15 points, 14 rebounds, 12 assists) for quantity and Karl-Anthony Towns for quality with a laser pass from his basket for OG Anunoby in transition (43-35, 20th).