New York Knicks BEAT the Cavaliers in Cleveland to take Game 1 of NBA playoff clash

New York Knicks DEFEAT the Cavaliers in Cleveland to win Game 1 of their NBA Eastern Conference Round 1 playoff…marking their first postseason road win in 24 YEARS

  • Jalen Brunson scored 27 points and Julius Randle had 19 for the winning Knicks
  • The Cleveland victory marked the Knicks’ first postseason road win in 24 years
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Jalen Brunson scored 27 points as the New York Knicks squeezed past the Cavaliers 101-97 in Cleveland to win their first postseason road game in 24 years.

The Knicks took a 1-0 lead in their Eastern Conference Round 1 playoff game — the first NBA team to win on the road in this year’s postseason — with Brunson and Julius Randle, among others, finding form.

Randle had 19 points and four assists for New York, while Donovan Mitchell’s 38-point play for the Cavs wasn’t enough to get them across the line despite a valiant fightback.

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