Donte DiVincenzo completed his greatest season with his longest performance, a possibility of a playoff series near his hometown and an announcement from his girlfriend that they recently welcomed their baby boy.
Not a bad day for the 27-year-old.
DiVincenzo exceeded any reasonable expectations by setting the franchise’s single-season record with 283 3-pointers, which he capped Sunday by scoring 25 points on five treys in a career-high 53 minutes during a 120-119 overtime win over the Bulls.
He sat for 30 seconds at the end of the first quarter, returned to start the second, and never went back to the bench again.
“It was actually fine,” DiVincenzo, who obliterated Evan Fournier’s previous Knicks’ single-season record for 3s, said about his minutes. “Now we’re in the playoffs and we’re all locked in and there’s no back-to-backs.”
The Knicks, who locked up the 2-seed, will face the winner of Wednesday’s play-in game between the No. 7 Sixers and No. 8 Heat.
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