NEW YORK - The New York Knicks made their first Eastern Conference Finals in 25 years and ended the Boston Celtics’ one-year NBA champion dominance with amazing ease, scoring a 119-81 victory in Game 6 Friday night.

Jalen Brunson and Og Anunoby, each winning 23 points for the Knicks, will face the Indiana Pacers, the same team they met in the final of 2000. The first game was held in New York on Wednesday night.

The Knicks have not won the playoff series at their home court since the 1999 Eastern Conference Finals. So the celebration begins in the upper half of Madison Square Garden and will surely be late at night around the arena.

Mikal Bridges scored 22 points, Karl-Anthony Towns scored 21 points for the Knicks, and the Karl-Anthony Towns won a 38-point victory in the playoffs.

Jaylen Brown scored 20 points for the Celtics and then fouled with 2:50 left in the third quarter, the second biggest game in the playoffs, where the player won his sixth individual foul in the Elias Sports Bureau (since 1997-98).

Boston lost leading scorer Jayson Tatum in Game 4, but he thinks it's still enough to get it back to Boston to get Game 7 and keep its championship defense.

Soon, this didn't happen.

The Celtics led at least 14 points in the first five games, but this time, the Knicks started quickly and kept pouring it in until Boston coach Joe Mazzulla started pulling his starter in the third quarter after the deficit reached 41 points.

The Knicks scored 33-20 points in the first seven points in the second quarter. New York blows it out 13-3, making it 49-27, a 6-foot-1 guard Deuce McBride chases the cover in a shot from Derrick White, which led to Josh Hart's second straight basket while being fouled.

Ben Stiller and Lenny Kravitz then shared handshakes and hugs along the celebrity row, where A-Listers stood and cheered all night, like fans sitting near the top of the arena.

The Knicks led 64-37 at halftime, a 27-point lead that matched their biggest game in the playoffs of the shooting era. They led the Lakers 69-42 in Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals when Willis Reed’s return from an injury inspired the Knicks’ first NBA title.

Three years later, the Knicks have been shut down since then, and it doesn't seem to be the year after the Knicks finished 0-8 against Cleveland and Boston, both teams ended above the East.

But the Knicks didn't have to worry about the Cavaliers and turned the situation completely around the opposition with the Celtics, overcame a 20-point flaw in the second of Boston's two games to open the series.

Hart scored 10 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists.

In NBA playoff history, the defending champion faces the biggest defending champion. It also tied for the third-largest loss in the playoffs in the team's history.

The Associated Press information is used in this report.