Jalen Brunson scored 43 points on 50 percent shooting from the floor to lead the visiting New York Knicks to a comeback 122-109 win in Milwaukee on Sunday, handing the Bucks their fourth straight loss.
New York (46-32) also got 26 points from former Buck Donte DiVincenzo on 8-of-11 shooting from beyond the arc. Isaiah Hartenstein scored 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds.
Giannis Antetokounmpo led Milwaukee (47-31) with 28 points along with 15 boards and eight assists. Bobby Portis came off the bench to score 24 on 10-of-15 shooting while Damian Lillard scored 23.
The home team primarily had control of the first half. Milwaukee went into the second quarter up 31-25 thanks to 12 from Lillard, despite 17 points already from Brunson.
In the second, Milwaukee grew their largest lead of the game, going into the break up 61-50. Antetokounmpo led the Bucks with 18 as the Bucks shot 52.6 percent compared to New York's 37.3 percent.
The Bucks took a blow in the second quarter as Khris Middleton exited the game. Middleton was inadvertently hit in the mouth by Hartenstein and bled on the court, officially being listed as out with mouth trauma.
With Middleton off the floor, New York flipped the script in the third, dominating on both sides of the court and erasing their deficit. Milwaukee scored just six points in the first six minutes, while the Knicks shot 14-for-19 (73.7 percent) in the third alone.
The Knicks won the quarter 39-24 thanks to 14 more from Brunson and went into the fourth up 89-85. They carried their momentum with them into the fourth as well.
New York began the fourth on a 10-2 run, giving them a 12-point advantage at 99-87.
The daggers came from DiVincenzo. He knocked down back-to-back 3-pointers, giving the Knicks a 117-103 edge with 2:36 to go.
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