NBA playoffs results and snacks: Knicks Wallop Celtics for the first trip to the conference final in 25 years

The New York Knicks on Friday on Friday had not made it to the final of the Eastern Conference since 2000, a drought while the camera phone is old.

In order to end the drought, the Knicks made it rain and increased 46.2 percent of their field gates and 34.8 percent of the 3-pointers on the way to a 119-81 route from the Boston Celtics. With the victory, New York is increasing to his first conference finale in a quarter of a century and demonstrated a resertion against the Indiana Pacers, who bounced off the playoffs from the playoffs from the playoffs from New York last year during a semi-finals.

The Knicks started the second quarter with a lead of six points and quickly turned it into a lead of 13 points when the Celtics dissolved. Then the Knicks of 16 and shortly afterwards at the age of 21, New York had a 64: 37 lead with five players (Jalen Brunson, OG Anunoby, Karl-Anthony Towns and Mikal Bridges.

The second half was no different and the Knicks never decreased and made it possible for some starters to rest almost half of the last frame.

“(The Celtics will not give you anything. You have to earn it and I felt that we did it,” said Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau Postgame.

Brunson and Anunoby have the Knicks up and down with 23 points each. Bridges had 22 and the cities scored 21 points, while Josh Hart and Miles McBride scored both 10 points. Jaylen Brown scored 20 points for the Celtics, while Derrick White had a quiet trip with eight points.

The final of the Eastern Conference begins on May 21 in New York.

Knicks have been on the final of the Eastern Conference for the first time since 2000. 🚨 pic.twitter.com/t9m6awmuoc

– NBA (@nba) May 17, 2025

New York saved its best for the last rescue

After 25 long, modest and frustrating seasons, the Knicks are back in the Eastern Conference.

Yes, the Knicks go to the final of the Eastern Conference.

New York saved his best performance for the last and achieved his first victory of the playoffs. The Knicks led the Celtics by 45 points at the end of the third quarter. Boston coach Joe Mazzulla used his players at the end of the bank before the fourth quarter started.

This performance must be both blissful and frustrating for Knicks fans. Blissful for the obvious. Frustrating because this team has a championship level, it can actually achieve, even if it rarely shows it. The team we saw on the floor in game 6 can not only get to the NBA final, but also win an NBA championship. It defended at a high level without communication problems that forced them to be throttled by game 5 in the second half. The crime was balanced because each starter achieved double digits.

Thursday evening Knick's basketball was best that we may have seen this season. – James Edwards III, Knicks Beat Writer

Knicks and Pacers meet again

In order to get to the final, the Knicks have to overcome their long -time arch enemy in the Pacers, who were as dominant in this off -season as every team.

The Pacers only lost two games in the post -season and ended the number 1 -seed Cleveland Cavaliers at the beginning of this week. Indiana plays quickly and became a really good defensive team in the second half of the season. For the Knicks, the series should look more like that against the pistons in contrast to the Celtics.

New York is a legitimate NBA title candidate. As one of the last four living teams, that says. Now the Knicks have the chance to prove that they are more than that. – Edwards

This series was a disaster for the Celtics

There is no way around. You will leave this season with the continued memory of Jayson Tatum's Achilles tear and how this was to be hoped for. But her season already circled the drain at that moment. They got into this series, but the Knicks too. Brunson injured the Detroit Pistons in game 4 in game 4 and crushed the Celtics a week later. Everyone was beaten at the time of the season and many of the role players of the Celtics have not delivered in the past 11 days.

Game 6 was so confusing because the Celtics looked listless right from the start. There was an energy wave from the defense of the Knicks that Boston could not cope with at all. He was noticeably concerned about the attack of Closeouts as much as Brown to lead this team in Tatum's absence. He let Mitchell Robinson continue to suppress him, which should not be a problem if he is ready to drive through contact. For some reason, the Celtics could never get enough levers to get past their defenders, and this quickly became a defensive masterpiece of the Knicks.

Jrue Holiday played out of control in this game, even though he was the case most of the off -season. The Celtics urgently needed his game and shooting in this series and they did not understand, whereby Brown and Derrick White put too much pressure to keep up with a well-rounded kink offensive.

This was a guy from Boston, something that we have not quite seen in a long time. Even in the conference final against Miami Heat two seasons ago, Boston won three games in a row to compensate for her initial collapse. This time it could not apply the same resilience and now it goes home. – Jared Weiss, Celtics Beat Writer

An overall master class from the Knicks

The Knicks pressed all the questions they had after game 5.

They did not come out enough intensity on Wednesday evening when they had lost in Boston, which extended their playoff life for 48 superfluous hours. It all went away on Friday.

The Knicks defended. They sprinted back in the transition. Each of them. They throttled the Celtics, who looked like they had given everything they had on Wednesday, with nothing more for game 6.

The Knicks raved about basketball. They attacked the edge. The cities destroyed the Celtics with more physicality than before. He drove for the transition 3S, which the team hadn't prioritized enough. Robinson blocked several Celtics on the same possession on almost every possession he played on the same possession. The laws of physics broke hard. He was everywhere. Miles “Deice” McBride hit the block of his career into the Madison Square Garden Backboard.
Jalen Brunson was Jalen Brunson. Anunoby was the best version of itself, as was bridges.

This was the elite version of the Knicks, which the organization believed to create last summer. Now they are in the conference final. – Fred Katz, Senior Writer NBA

A low season of uncertainty in Boston

Wow. This became ugly for the Celtics early and only got worse. Now that Tatum has been injured and hopes for two consecutive championships have disappeared, the franchise will enter into a summer of uncertainty.

Thanks to the hard realities of the financial situation of the Celtics, Brad Stevens had to consider significant changes anyway. Since Tatum has the extension of the time in time next season, Stevens was able to explore a bigger overhaul. Before Tatum's injury, the Celtics looked at a 3-1 deficit after collapsing in three second halves of this series.

It became a breathtaking loss for the series for Boston anyway, and it became a franchise change series when Tatum tore up his Achilles towards the end of game 4. The Celtics squad could look very different up to the point when Tatum returned to the square. Especially after such a series. – Jay King, Celtics Beat Writer

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