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SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The nice guy won more battles but lost the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Facing callous bully Draymond Green, Karl-Anthony Towns produced a game-high 29 points with a game-high 12 rebounds before fouling out with 6.1 seconds remaining. <\/p>\n
But the center, along with his Knicks teammates, faltered down the stretch and allowed Green the final taunt Saturday night in the Warriors\u2019 97-94 victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Knicks (42-24) went cold in the final 2:45, failing miserably down the stretch without injured closer Jalen Brunson.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Green hit the dagger \u2014 a lay-up with 25 seconds left that gave the Warriors a six-point lead. <\/p>\n
He then skipped down the court with his hands on the side of his face, the \u2018goodnight\u2019 gesture made famous by Steph Curry in the Olympics.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The backdrop was a reckless comment from Green, who spread a rumor on his podcast that Towns missed a game against the Warriors this month at MSG because he was ducking longtime nemesis Jimmy Butler. Green figured Towns was faking an injury, although he acknowledged,\u00a0\u201cI didn\u2019t look that deep into it to figure out what his injury was.\u201d In reality, Towns missed the game to attend the funeral of a close family friend who died after a long battle with breast cancer.<\/p>\n
In the aftermath, Green, who has tried to bully Towns for years, was unapologetic and plugged his podcast. Towns offered, \u201cI choose to approach that with love, not hate.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Appropriately, Green lined up as the primary defender on Towns for most of the evening. And it started exquisitely for the Knicks center. In the game\u2019s first possession, Towns blew past Green on a pump fake for a dunk.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Within six minutes, Towns had 11 points and five rebounds. It felt personal. But the adrenaline also backfired. Towns succumbed to early foul trouble. And with 8:08 left in the second quarter, tensions spilled over.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Towns and Green locked up on the perimeter, with the Knicks center getting whistled for a loose ball foul. It was already the third infraction on Towns, which prompted Green to point to the Knicks bench and say, \u201cGet him off.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Towns walked to Green and the two were separated after a very brief face-to-face yelling session.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That was the end of Towns\u2019 first half.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But KAT picked up where he left off after the break. In roughly the opening two minutes of the third quarter, he buried a deep 3-pointer on Butler and a lefty hook over Green. The Knicks even survived the dreaded third quarter against the Warriors, entering the final period with just a 75-72 deficit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve known them do what they do in the third quarter for a long time,\u201d Towns said. \u201cOne of the best teams assembled for the third quarter.\u201d<\/p>\n
With 2:45 remaining, Mikal Bridges, who finished with 19 points, tied the game with a pull-up up. The Warriors (39-28) followed with a game-breaking 7-1 run to finish the Knicks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anger also infiltrated the Knicks bench. During a timeout in the fourth quarter, Josh Hart, who shot a miserable 0 for 7 with 0 points, shouted angrily back-and-forth with Tom Thibodeau. The coach looked especially upset as he grilled his standing player from his seat.<\/p>\n
OG Anunoby added 23 points and nine rebounds. Miles McBride had 19 points while defending Curry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before the game, Thibodeau went all-out praising Towns, calling him the most versatile scoring center in the NBA. That list presumably includes Nikola Jokic.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think when you look at his career, he\u2019s had a terrific career. He was winning at a high level (with the Timberwolves),\u201d the Knicks coach said. \u201cI think as a league, everyone was moving to the skilled five at that position. There\u2019s not, I don\u2019t think, in my opinion, a more skilled center than he is, in terms of his ability to score at all three levels. And then his passing ability on top of that, and he\u2019s always been an elite rebounder. I think along with his experience, each year in Minnesota he got better. And he sacrificed a lot. When they traded for Rudy (Gobert), he moved to the power forward position and then they got Anthony Edwards, he adapted to that as well. They got to the Western Conference Finals because of his willingness to sacrifice and put the team first, so I thought that would be a good fit for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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