HOUSTON — It had no chance of going in and the Knicks were hosed.
Aaron Holiday was launching a prayer, a one-handed shot that should’ve marked the start of overtime, not the game-winning play.
Instead, referee Jacyn Goble whistled a foul on Jalen Brunson, who was closing out hard but maintaining a vertical stance. Holiday then buried two of his three foul shots, breaking the tie in the final moments in Monday’s stunning 105-103 loss to the Rockets.
“Tough way to lose a game,” Tom Thibodeau said.
Brunson was the hero just seconds earlier.
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He drained a step-back over Dillon Brooks with 8.3 seconds remaining, knotting the score and seemingly making up for an otherwise inefficient performance.