The New York Knicks reappeared on Wednesday with a 91-90 victory over the Boston Celtics and led the NBA title 2-0 in its Eastern Conference semi-final playoff series.

After the rally from 20 in the first game from the 20-year-old's overtime win, the Knicks wrote another epic comeback.

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Mikal Bridges scored all 14 points for The Knicks in the fourth quarter and snatched a potential winning basket in the Jayson Tatum racing in Boston and stole him.

Josh Hart led the Karl-Anthony Towns with 23 points, adding 21 points and 17 rebounds.

Jalen Brunson scored 17 points and scored again when it was important. He scored 1:59 as New York's decline jumper, which put New York ahead 87-86.

After Tatum made a dunk on the court, leaving the Celtics with 18.5 seconds left with 90-89, Brunson drilled two free throws to knock the Knicks back to the top.

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"I'm glad we found a way to win," Brunson told broadcaster TNT. "That's something wild."

With both teams fighting for offensive consistency, Boston managed to lead 73-53 with 3:12 left in the third quarter.

Jaylen Brown and Derrick White scored 20 points in the Celtics - but Brown had just three points after halftime, with Boston missing 14 consecutive baskets in the fourth quarter, giving the Knicks the only opening they needed.

"The third, fourth quarter, I thought we had some look and then I thought we had some live ball turnovers and they took advantage of it," Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said. "They did the necessary drama to win. We made ourselves able to do that and we just didn't make the game."

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The Knicks will host their third game on Saturday. Only five teams won the NBA playoff series after dropping the first two games at home.

Late Wednesday, the Oklahoma City Thunder tried to bounce back from devastating losses to the Denver Nuggets, who stole the first game in Oklahoma City, thanks to Nikola Jokic's 42 points and the last game from Aaron Gordon.

For most of the fourth quarter, the Thunder took double digits.

"We know it's about how we respond," Shai Gilgeous-Alexander said. "All we can do is better in the next game, and that's what we focus on."

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