MIAMI – Mike Brown has often repeated that the Knicks defense is ahead of the offense. And Sunday’s 115-107 defeat was reinforcement.

The defense wasn’t good. But the offense was anemic. It barely existed outside of Jalen Brunson.

The game was lost at the end of the third quarter and beginning of the fourth, when Brusnon went to the bench and the Heat launched an 11-0 run. The Knicks went 4 1/2 minutes without scoring.

By the time Brunson returned with nine minutes left, the point guard was cold and the Knicks were toast. A brief momentum of resuscitation to cut the deficit to single digits in the final minutes was too little, too late. 4

Andrew Wiggins hit the dagger trey for Miami with 1:20 remaining.

So the first road game of the Brown era was also its first loss. The Knicks s

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