费城-彭江雨·布伦森、约什·哈特和纽约尼克斯队重返东部决赛，与NBA季后赛记录持平25个三分球在喧闹的人群面前为公路队加油周日以144-114击败费城76人队，横扫第二轮系列赛。
杜斯·麦克布赖德代替了受伤的奥格·阿努诺比并命中7个三分球，在第一节4投4中，尼克斯队又创下了11分的纪录，并得到25分。在尼克斯队的最新比赛中，布伦森得到22分，哈特和卡尔-安东尼·唐斯各得17分一边倒的季后赛胜利。
自1984年16支球队进入季后赛以来，尼克斯队每场比赛19.4分的胜率是两轮比赛中最高的。
“这只是我们非常锁定在那一刻，”唐斯说。
尼克斯队连续第二个赛季进入东部决赛，并将在克利夫兰-底特律系列赛中获胜。活塞以2比1领先。
尼克斯队上赛季25年来第一次进入了西部决赛在输给印第安纳之前。尼克斯随后解雇了教练汤姆·锡伯杜取而代之的是迈克·布朗，他带领球队从对阵亚特兰大的最后三场比赛开始，取得了季后赛七连胜。
“我们的人试图把它带到另一个水平，他们专注于细节，他们的精力和努力水平，”布朗说。“这是我们打得相当好的篮球的很多原因。”
多年来，尼克斯队的球迷习惯于在76人队的主场抢购成千上万张季后赛门票，在第四场比赛中，他们可能做出了迄今为止最响亮的声明。他们在体育场外举起扫帚，一进体育场就挥舞着“永远是尼克斯队”的毛巾，同时大声斥责那些在二级市场上没有赚到几个外快并留在那里的少数76人球迷。
76人队的特权未能阻止尼克斯球迷购买门票的努力。
76人在试图阻止尼克斯的进攻上是更大的失败。
第四场比赛从一开始就很可笑，尼克斯队用三分球作为他们个人投篮比赛的起点。
尼克斯球迷站起来，大声喊着“Deuuuce”，麦克布莱德打了一，二，三，四——四!—连续三分球以20-6领先，而76人已经紧随其后。麦克布莱德成为尼克斯队(自1997年开始追踪报道以来)第一个在季后赛第一节命中四个3分的人。
纽约的三分球记录正在升温。
布伦森在此期间增加了两个(总共六个)帮助尼克斯队13投11中，追平了NBA在一个季度内最多的得分纪录。
尼克斯队在上半场总共得到18个3分，长球得了54分，而76人队总共得到57分。总的来说，这是81-57的领先优势，并帮助尼克斯队自1999年东部半决赛对阵亚特兰大以来首次横扫七场四胜制系列赛。
尼克斯队在本赛季的五场季后赛中有两次在上半场得到80分以上。
下半场只是一个形式，在第一轮以3-1的比分击败波士顿后，76人队正在回家。
“我认为他们的能量和我们的能量之间有很大的差距，”76人队教练尼克·护士说。
乔尔·恩比德以24分结束了另一个充满伤病的赛季，泰瑞斯·马克西得到17分，而76人自2001年以来还没有走出第二轮。
恩比德说:“今年我不知道我会在哪里(带着健康)，我会打多久，如果我的膝盖在过去几年里怎么样，我甚至会打比赛。”“我来的时候只是抱着最好的希望，我觉得我们已经解决了膝盖的问题。这不是一个问题。”
唐斯有10次助攻。哈特投中了四个三分球，并脱下他的球衣扔给了一个穿着76人队服装的女人。
“我的右手记得目标是做3分，”哈特说。“很高兴她回来了。”
如果横扫和尼克斯队的球迷接管没有给76人带来足够的坏消息，那么还有最后一个对自我的打击——费城的两个2018年首轮选秀权仍在发挥作用:米卡勒·布里奇斯和兰德里·沙梅特，当然是尼克斯队的。
Knicks bury 76ers 144-114 to complete sweep into East finals for 2nd straight year
PHILADELPHIA --Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and the New York Knicks are back in the Eastern Conference finals, tying the NBA postseason record with25 3-pointersin front of a raucous crowdrooting for the road teamand rolling past the Philadelphia 76ers 144-114 on Sunday to sweep the second-round series.
Deuce McBride started in place of theinjured OG Anunobyand hit seven 3-pointers, going 4 for 4 in the first quarter when the Knicks had another record with 11, and scored 25 points. Brunson had 22 points and Hart and Karl-Anthony Towns each scored 17 in the Knicks' latestlopsided playoff victory.
The Knicks' 19.4 point-per-game margin of victory is the largest through two rounds since the playoffs went to 16 teams in 1984.
“It's just us being very locked in to the moment,” Towns said.
The Knicks advanced to the East finals for the second straight season and will play the winner of the Cleveland-Detroit series. The Pistons lead 2-1.
The Knicks last seasonreached the conference finals for the first time in 25 yearsbefore losing to Indiana. The Knicks then fired coachTom Thibodeauand replaced him with Mike Brown, who has guided them to seven straight playoff wins, starting with the last three games against Atlanta.
“Our guys tried to take it to another level with their focus on the details and their energy and effort level,” Brown said. “That's a lot of the reason why we're playing pretty good basketball.”
Knicks fans made a habit of scooping up tickets by the thousands at the Sixers' arena for playoffs games over the years, and in Game 4, they may have made the loudest statement yet. They raised brooms outside the arena and waved “Always Knicks” towels once inside, all while noisily neutering the few Sixers fans that didn't make a few extra bucks on the secondary market and stuck around.
The 76ers' franchise failed to stop Knicks fans in their effort to buy tickets.
The 76ers were greater failures in trying to stop the Knicks on the floor.
Game 4 was a laugher from the tip, with the Knicks using the 3-point arc as a starting point for their personal pop-a-shot game.
With Knicks fans on their feet and exclaiming “Deuuuce," McBride hit one, two, three, four — four! — 3-pointers in succession for a 20-6 lead and the Sixers were already on their heels. McBride became the first Knick (since play-by-play tracking began in 1997) to hit four 3s in the first quarter of a playoff game.
New York's 3-point records were just heating up.
Brunson added two in the period (six total) to help make the Knicks 11 of 13, which tied the NBA mark for most makes in a quarter.
The Knicks totaled 18 3s in the first half to score 54 points off the long ball, compared to 57 total for the 76ers. Overall, that was an 81-57 lead and helped power the Knicks toward their first best-of-seven series sweep since the 1999 East semis against Atlanta.
The Knicks scored 80-plus points in the first half twice in five road playoff games this season.
The second half was a mere formality, and the Sixers are headed home after a gutsy 3-1 series comeback to beat Boston in the first round.
“The energy was a big gap between their energy and our energy, I thought," Sixers coach Nick Nurse said.
Joel Embiid ended another injury-riddled season with 24 points, Tyrese Maxey had 17 and the Sixers still have not advanced out of the second round since 2001.
“I came into this year not knowing where I was going to be (with health), how long I was going to play, if I was even going to play based on how the knee was the last few years,” Embiid said. “I came in just hoping for the best and I feel like we're in a position where we figured out the knee. It hasn't been an issue.”
Towns had 10 assists. Hart hit four 3-pointers and celebrated by stripping off his jersey and tossing it to a woman in Sixers gear.
“My right hand remembered that the goal was to make 3s,” Hart said. “Happy to have her back.”
If the sweep and the Knicks' fan takeover didn't saddle the Sixers with enough bad news, there was one final cutting blow to the ego — Philadelphia's two first-round 2018 draft picks are still playing: Mikal Bridges and Landry Shamet, of course, for the Knicks.
