NBA playoffs 2024: NY Knicks look to go up 2-0 against the Indiana Pacers at Madison Square Garden [Video]

NEW YORK — The New York Knicks are hosting the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference second round with a 1-0 lead in the series.

The Knicks won the last meeting 121-117 on Monday led by 43 points from Jalen Brunson, while Myles Turner scored 23 points for the Pacers.

Brunson has scored 40 or more in four straight games, the first player to do that in the postseason since Jordan in the 1993 NBA Finals, and is just the fourth player ever to do that.

Yet he insists he never goes into a game thinking about how much he needs to score, even on a Knicks team missing points from injured fellow All-Star Julius Randle.

“I think, what can you do, how can we be aggressive, how can we attack and where can we get the best advantage for our team,” Brunson said Tuesday. “And it has nothing to do with me …