As the lead was dwindling, the Knicks — already without Towns and Robinson — lost Hukporti for the remainder of the game after he tried to play the first 1:15 of the fourth after suffering a sprained left knee in the third quarter.

Jalen Brunson scored nine unanswered points late in the fourth quarter Wednesday night for the host New York Knicks, who squandered all of a 19-point lead before coming back to edge the skidding Philadelphia 76ers 110-105.

It required a couple of extra Brotherly Shoves, but the New York Knicks doomed the Philadelphia 76ers to their ninth consecutive loss. The clutch antics of Jalen Brunson thrust the Knicks to a much-needed victory,