The Knicks beat the Heat on Wednesday night in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
— Jalen Brunson never talked to his coach about how minutes he would play, or how many points he had to score."Nothing was said at all," Brunson said."Whatever it takes."Brunson had 38 points, nine rebounds and seven assists while playing all 48 minutes in a season-extending performance, and New York beat the Miami Heat 112-103 on Wednesday night in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
The Knicks built a 19-point lead in the third quarter, then hung on when the Heat finally got their 3-pointers to start falling and cut it to two with 2 1/2 minutes remaining.Jimmy Butler had 19 points, nine assists and seven rebounds for the Heat, getting held below 25 points for the first time in this postseason. Bam Adebayo added 18 points and Duncan Robinson had 17.
The 1999 Knicks, for now, remain the only No. 8 to get to a conference finals in the current playoff format that began in 1984. They got all the way to the NBA Finals after upsetting the top-seeded Heat in the first round. "We'll see what Game 6 brings," he said."If it requires them to do that, then I'm not afraid to do it."
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