“I was just doing what the team needed of me, you know?” Nesmith said after the game. “I was just letting them fly. I was in a good rhythm. Didn’t really realize what I was doing in the moment.” What he was doing in the moment was becoming the first player in NBA history to hit six 3-pointers in the fourth quarter of a playoff game. “It’s unreal,” he said. “It’s probably the best feeling in the world for me, personally. I love it. Like, when that basket feels like an ocean and anything you toss up, you feel like it’s going to go in. It’s just … so much fun.” “Obviously, Aaron’s heroics — I mean, I hope they’re talked about,” said Pacers All-Star Tyrese Haliburton. “They can’t be talked about enough … I think each shot that he made just kept giving us more confidence that we could, you know, really win this game.”

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“Give them a lot of credit,” said Brunson, who scored a game-high 43 points on 15-for-25 shooting, but also committed a playoff-high seven turnovers, including a costly bad pass on what should’ve been an easy Anunoby dunk to push New York’s lead to seven with 31 seconds to go. “They closed the game out, like they’ve been doing all playoffs. Just not really good on our part.”

New York Knicks merchandise is flying off the shelves as the team makes its deepest NBA playoff run since the turn of the century. Sales of Knicks products are up 80% compared to last season’s playoffs, according to new data from the NBA’s e-commerce partner, Fanatics Inc. The team begins the Eastern Conference Finals on Wednesday night when it hosts the Indiana Pacers at Madison Square Garden.