Led by veteran guard McCollum, the Atlanta Hawks staged a late comeback to upset New York Knicks to tie their playoff series 1-1.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 21 Apr 2026<\/span>21 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n CJ McCollum scored six of his \u200cgame-high 32 points in the final two-plus minutes on Monday night for the \u2060visiting Atlanta Hawks, \u2060who stormed back from an eight-point deficit in the last five minutes to stun the New York Knicks 107-106 in Game 2 of their \u2060Eastern Conference first-round series.<\/p>\n The Hawks ended on a 15-6 run to even the best-of-seven series at a game apiece. Game 3 is scheduled for Thursday night in \u2060Atlanta.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n The Hawks, whose only lead before their concluding surge was at 36-35, trailed by as many as 14 points in the third quarter. Atlanta fell behind 100-92 when Jalen Brunson hit a floater with 5:26 left.<\/p>\n The teams traded empty possessions before Atlanta scored \u200con its next three possessions to pull within 100-99 on Jalen Johnson\u2019s layup with 3:25 remaining. McCollum drove past Brunson for the go-ahead layup with 2:08 left.<\/p>\n New York\u2019s OG Anunoby missed two free throws, and McCollum hit a short jumper, after which Brunson sank a 3-pointer to tie the score at 103-103. McCollum committed a turnover, and Brunson missed a mid-range jumper before McCollum put the Hawks \u2060ahead for good with a fadeaway jumper from the \u2060left baseline with 33.5 seconds left.<\/p>\n Nickeil Alexander-Walker blocked Brunson\u2019s shot and fed Johnson for a dunk to put the Hawks up 107-103 with 10.2 seconds left. Following a timeout, Brunson hit a 3-pointer that circled \u2060around the rim and went in, after which McCollum was fouled by Hart but missed both free throws.<\/p>\n The Knicks had \u2060a timeout left, but they pushed the ball \u2060up the court, and Hart dished to Mikal Bridges, who missed a 12-foot attempt for the win from the left wing as time expired.<\/p>\n The Hawks shot 72.2 percent (13-for-18) in the fourth, while the Knicks shot just 22.7 percent (5-for-22).<\/p>\n Jonathan \u200cKuminga had 19 points off the bench for the Hawks, while Johnson (17 points) and Onyeka Okongwu (15 points) also got into double figures.<\/p>\n Brunson scored 29 points for the \u200cKnicks. \u200cHart recorded 15 points and 13 rebounds, while Karl-Anthony Towns had 18 points. Anunoby finished with 14 points, and Mitchell Robinson scored 13 points off the bench. Bridges added 10 points.<\/p>\n Led by veteran guard McCollum, the Atlanta Hawks staged a late comeback to upset New York Knicks to tie their playoff series 1-1. Published On 21 Apr 202621 Apr 2026 CJ McCollum scored six of his \u200cgame-high 32 points in the final two-plus minutes on Monday night for the \u2060visiting Atlanta Hawks, \u2060who stormed back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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