{"id":492681,"date":"2025-11-27T10:48:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/nba-recap-knicks-stay-alive-in-the-nba-cup-spoelstra-reaches-800-wins-and-the-thunder-remain-undefeated\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T10:48:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:48:33","slug":"nba-recap-knicks-stay-alive-in-the-nba-cup-spoelstra-reaches-800-wins-and-the-thunder-remain-undefeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/basketball\/nba-recap-knicks-stay-alive-in-the-nba-cup-spoelstra-reaches-800-wins-and-the-thunder-remain-undefeated\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Recap: Knicks stay alive in the NBA Cup; Spoelstra reaches 800 wins and the Thunder remain undefeated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n<strong>New York, USA.<\/strong> The New York Knicks secured a crucial victory this Wednesday in their aspirations to advance to the next round of the NBA Cup, defeating the Charlotte Hornets 129-101 on a brilliant night for Jalen Bruson and Karl-Anthony Towns. The day also left coach Erik Spoelstra as the main protagonist, who reached 800 regular season victories, and confirmed the overwhelming pace of the Oklahoma City Thunder in the group stage.\n\nYou may be interested in:\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Brunson Leads, Towns Dominates, and the Knicks Still Have Options<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nThe Knicks kept their chances of leading Group C alive thanks to a superb performance by <strong>Jalen Brunson<\/strong>, who scored <strong>33 points<\/strong> in his eighth game of the season with at least 30 points.\n\n\u201cWe looked for ways to attack. The ball was going in,\u201d Brunson said. \u201cWe dominated the paint, finished plays, and understood what the defense was offering,\u201d he added after the game, in which he was inspired by the presence of the legendary <strong>Allen Iverson<\/strong> in the arena.\n\n<strong>Josh Hart<\/strong> set the early pace with 19 of his 22 points in the first half, while Brunson closed out the game with 18 in the second half. New York fell behind by six points, but adjusted the offensive rhythm and came to lead by up to 31 units.\n\nThe Dominican <strong>Karl-Anthony Towns<\/strong>, in his second season with the Knicks, contributed a solid <strong>double-double of 22 points and 10 rebounds<\/strong>, dominating the painted area.\n\nNew York will define its classification when facing <strong>Milwaukee<\/strong> in the last matchday of the group stage.\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Miami defeats Milwaukee and Spoelstra achieves his 800th victory<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nThe <strong>Miami Heat (3-1)<\/strong> closed the group stage with a close victory <strong>106-103<\/strong> over a Milwaukee Bucks (2-1) that did not have their star <strong>Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong>, who missed his fourth consecutive game due to a muscle injury.\n\nTaking advantage of the absence of the current defending champion, Miami achieved its sixth consecutive victory, supported by the performance of <strong>Bam Adebayo<\/strong>, who contributed <strong>17 points and 11 rebounds<\/strong>.\n\n&#8220;The 15 players have been ready. We are playing together and having fun,&#8221; Adebayo expressed after the victory at the Kaseya Center.\n\nThe triumph marked a historic milestone: <strong>Erik Spoelstra<\/strong> reached his <strong>800th victory<\/strong> as a coach in the regular season, a mark achieved since his arrival on the Miami bench in the 2008\u20132009 season.\n\nBy Milwaukee, <strong>Ryan Rollins<\/strong> was the top scorer with 26 points in 41 minutes.\n\nMiami will now have to wait for the result of the match between <strong>Knicks and Bucks<\/strong> to know its fate in the competition.\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Thunder Keeps Perfect Pace With Stellar Performance by Gilgeous-Alexander<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nThe <strong>Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong> continued their undefeated run in the NBA Cup by defeating the <strong>Minnesota Timberwolves<\/strong>, <strong>113-105<\/strong>, achieving their third victory (3-0) in the group stage.\n\nThe current MVP, <strong>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/strong>, once again led the attack with <strong>40 points<\/strong>, surpassing the individual duel against <strong>Anthony Edwards<\/strong>, who responded with 31 points, eight rebounds and five assists.\n\nEdwards&#8217; three brought Minnesota within one point with a minute left, but a basket by <strong>Chet Holmgren<\/strong> restored the lead and the Thunder secured the result at the free throw line.\n\nOklahoma City holds the best NBA record this season: <strong>18 wins and only one loss<\/strong>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, USA. The New York Knicks secured a crucial victory this Wednesday in their aspirations to advance to the next round of the NBA Cup, defeating the Charlotte Hornets 129-101 on a brilliant night for Jalen Bruson and Karl-Anthony Towns. The day also left coach Erik Spoelstra as the main protagonist, who reached 800 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":492682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35743],"tags":[40231,71,40853],"class_list":["post-492681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-dominican-republic","tag-nba","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24at","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/towns-logra-doble-doble-y-knicks-se-mantienen-con-vida-en-la-copa-nba-e5991c0c-focus-0-0-896-504.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Basketball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/towns-logra-doble-doble-y-knicks-se-mantienen-con-vida-en-la-copa-nba-e5991c0c-focus-0-0-896-504.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}