*Wednesday’s 22.7-percent shooting from 3-point was the Knicks’ worst 3-point shooting performance in 44 combined regular season and postseason home games in 2012-13.
*Yesterday was Brandon Bass’s 28th birthday. –In Bass’s 121 minutes played in the 2013 playoffs, the Celtics are 11.1 points better per 100 offensive possessions.
*Coming into Sunday, J.R. Smith had scored double-digit points in his last 22 combined regular season and postseason games, the longest streak of his career.
*The Celtics have been by far the worse offensive team in the 2013 NBA playoffs. –Their 84.0 points per 100 possessions in the first two games of the series is more than 13 points worse per 100 possessions than the Washington Wizards’ 30th-ranked efficiency during the regular season.
*Out of almost 250 teams to go down 2-0 in a best-of-7 series, just 15 have come back to win the series.
*Since the All-Star break, the Knicks are 12-2 (.857) at home with a +11.4 point differential per game. –They are 1 of only 5 NBA teams that had a winning percentage of at least .850 at home since the All-Star break (Nuggets, Heat, Lakers and Grizzlies). –They are 1 of only 3 NBA teams that [...]
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