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11 unique statistics emphasize the historic NBA playoff game

11 unique statistics emphasize the historic NBA playoff game

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The New York Knicks dominated game 6 against the Boston Celtics, avoided the pressure of a game 7 on the street and reached the Eastern Conference final for the first time in 25 years.

The Knicks eliminated the Celtics 119-81 in game 6 on Friday evening.

Karl-Anthony Towns led the Knicks with 21 points and 12 rebounds, Jalen Brunson had 23 points, six assists and six rebounds, and Josh Hart-recorded 10 points, 11 assists, 11-rebound triple double in a game filled with statistical curiosities.

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The Knicks with the third seeds will be the fourth Indiana Pacers playing the Knicks in the conference finale since 1999 and the Pacers have not been no longer in the NBA final.

Game 1 is Wednesday in New York (8 p.m. ET, TNT).

Let's take a look at some of the wild statistics and pay around the game 6:

Wild statistics from game 6 of Celtics against Knicks

  • These Knicks reached the final of the conference for the first time since 2000. When they entered the game, they had the third longest series of the league not to make it for the conference final for creating Charlotte (never) and Washington (1979 was the last time the magicians did it).
  • Brunson was only 3 years old when the Knicks had last got that far, and his father, Knick's assistant coach Rick Brunson, was 2000 this year.
  • The quirky X feed called NBA Scorigami found that the result of 119-81 the 3,168. Unique score in NBA history and the 23rd this season.
  • The Celtics remained at the end of the third quarter with 41 points- 92-51 and during the playoffs this season until Friday were not more than 12 points in a game.
  • The Celtics had lost only three games with 20 or more points this season – the biggest defeat was 21 points.
  • The edge corresponded to the third largest differential defeat in Celtics Playoff story.
  • Boston scored 37 points in the first half, which had a season-low season, and the 20 points in the first quarter and 17 points in the second quarter were in a first and second quarter for the Celtics this season.
  • New York's 64 points in the first half were most of the Celtics in the first half in this season, 59, which scored the Knicks in game 5.
  • New York's 27-point half-time leader made the biggest lead after two quarters in Knick's playoff story.
  • The first kink was hard to register a triple double in a playoff game since Walt Frazier in 1972. Frazier, a Knicks TV analyst, was sitting at the courtyard to see Hart's performance. He is just the third player in franchise history who has a playoff triple double (frazier, dick Mcguire).
  • This is the ninth time that the Knicks and Pacers met in the playoffs, with the Pacers win five of the series. They met six times from 1993 to 2000 and created one of the best and most intense rivalries in the era.

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