Evan Fournier scored 26 points, Immanuel Quickley added 12 of his 14 in the fourth quarter after New York lost a 25-point lead, and the Knicks Rally beat a Los Angeles Lakers team that lost the star. suspended LeBron James 106-100 Tuesday night.
Julius Randle added 20 points, 16 rebounds and five assists for the Knicks Rally, but sat for eight minutes of the fourth quarter after committing his fifth foul. Quickley made sure that didn’t matter, hitting four 3s in the period.
Russell Westbrook had 31 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists, with 18 points in a sensational third quarter that allowed the Lakers to tie the game. But with James out of the arena, Anthony Davis battling illness, and Carmelo Anthony’s shooting at his old home, the Lakers were never able to take the lead.
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They beat Detroit on Sunday after overcoming a 17-point deficit in the game from which James was sent off for hitting Pistons center Isaiah Stewart in the face and drawing blood. The NBA suspended the superstar forward for one game.
But the best Los Angeles could do in this one was draw twice after New York dominated most of the first two quarters.
Davis, who woke up with a fever, scored 20 points on shots of 7 of 17. Anthony was just 3 of 14 for 12 points, and the Lakers lost for the fourth time in five games.
Randle went to the bench with his fifth foul with 9:18 left and was hit with a technical foul from there that allowed the Lakers to reduce it to 90-87. But Obi Toppin scored before Quickley made a triple to take it to eight, and was back in double digits when Quickley’s three more made it 105-93 with 4:58 to play.
The Knicks reached a 10-0 lead that grew to 36-15 on a triple by RJ Barrett with 1:11 left in the first quarter. He was 59-35 with less than 5 minutes remaining at the half before the Lakers hit a 16-2 streak that cut him to 61-51 just before the break.
The Lakers scored nine in a row to open the third and cut it to 63-60, and finally tied for the first time at 79 on Anthony’s dunk.