{"id":185633,"date":"2021-02-22T08:08:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T05:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/taj-gibson-saves-day-for-knicks-with-clutch-defensive-play\/"},"modified":"2021-02-22T08:08:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T05:08:41","slug":"taj-gibson-saves-day-for-knicks-with-clutch-defensive-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/taj-gibson-saves-day-for-knicks-with-clutch-defensive-play\/","title":{"rendered":"#Taj Gibson saves day for Knicks with clutch defensive play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Taj Gibson saves day for Knicks with clutch defensive play<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Knicks-Gibson.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Taj Gibson has played sparingly since re-signing with the Knicks in January, but the veteran big man provided the Knicks a defensive lift Sunday night at the Garden.<\/p>\n<p>With starting center Mitchell Robinson sidelined following hand surgery and replacement Nerlens Noel fouled out, Gibson was matched against All-Star big man Karl-Anthony Towns and came up with a key stop in the closing seconds of the Knicks\u2019 103-99 win over Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>With the Knicks ahead 99-98 and 23.2 seconds remaining, Towns (27 points) missed a short jumper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMentally, to be ready, for my teammates, just trying to inspire, trying to do what I have to do,\u201d said Gibson, who was a teammate of Towns\u2019 with the T\u2019Wolves from 2017-19. \u201cJust not letting KAT get middle. I\u2019ve been around him a good amount of time to know that he wants to get into the middle of the lane and trying to shoot a running hook or a floater hook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a fight. I knew it was coming to him. I got lucky tonight. Just tried to use my body and just fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-megaphone\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=ADL5444553293&amp;light=true\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>Former lottery pick <strong>Frank Ntilikina<\/strong> has <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared in just four <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s this season \u2014 and none since injuring his right knee on Dec. 29. He also spent a week isolated in his hotel room in Miami earlier this month for COVID-19 contact tracing, despite continually testing negative for the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was definitely not the best, but it was probably for everybody\u2019s health,\u201d Ntilikina said. \u201cI did my best to just do some exercises in the room. I couldn\u2019t do much. Tried to stay locked [in], stay focused on the season and on every goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks had planned on sending little-used guard <strong>Dennis Smith Jr.<\/strong> to the G-League for game action before he was traded to Detroit for <strong>Derrick Rose<\/strong>, but <strong>Tom Thibodeau<\/strong> said \u201cnot yet\u201d when asked if such an assignment is being considered for Ntilikina.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><strong>Austin Rivers <\/strong>only had totaled five minutes in the previous five games, but he was unavailable Sunday due to an illness.\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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With starting center Mitchell Robinson sidelined following hand surgery and replacement Nerlens Noel fouled out, Gibson was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Knicks-Gibson.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[94625,72942,72932,92369],"class_list":["post-185633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-22-21","tag-frank-ntilikina","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-taj-gibson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}