The Oklahoma City Thunder (28-18) picked up an easy win on Martin Luther King Day, beating the New York Knicks (10-35) by a final score of 127-109 at Madison Square Garden. Paul George scored 13 of his game-high 31 points in the first quarter to put the Thunder up by as many as 20 in the opening frame. The Knicks only got as close as 14 from that point forward, as the Thunder went 15-of-29 (51.7 percent) from long range and dominated throughout.
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The Thunder blitzed the Knicks from the jump, shooting 13-of-22 (59.