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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nNEW YORK (AP) In his first time on stage, Trae Young was already the star of the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And just like an actor on nearby Broadway, he closed his impressive debut performance with a bow, after making a long 3-pointer in the final minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00bbLeading up to this game, I know where we are, I know there’s a bunch of shows around this city and I know what they do when the show is over,\u00bb Young said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Young closed it with 36 points and nine assists, and the Atlanta Hawks beat the New York Knicks 103-89 on Wednesday night in Game 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clint Capela backed up his confident words from a day earlier with 14 points and 15 rebounds for the Hawks, who will play the top-seeded Philadelphia 76ers in their first trip to the Eastern Conference semifinals since 2016. That series begins Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Young never looked like a playoff rookie, hitting the winning shot with 0.9 seconds left in the opener and averaging 29.2 points and 9.8 assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The profane chants toward the point guard continued Wednesday, though less frequently than in Games 1 or 2. Young was never rattled by the fans, one of whom was banned after spitting on Young in Game 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now he has silenced them for the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00bbI texted him before the playoffs started and told him he’s built for this time of the season with the confidence he brings to the floor, his skill level for scoring the basketball and creating opportunities,\u00bb Hawks interim coach Nate McMillan said. \u00bbIt’s really tough to game plan against him.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Julius Randle had 23 points and 13 rebounds for the Knicks to finish his disappointing first postseason. The winner of the NBA’s Most Improved Player award shot 8 for 21 from the field and finished 28 for 94 (29.8%) in the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Randle said he was proud of the team the Knicks were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00bbIt’s tough for me to process that right now the way things ended, but we’ll be back,\u00bb he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Randle led the Knicks to a 41-31 record in their first season under Tom Thibodeau, with a pair of 40-point games during a three-game season sweep of Atlanta. But the Hawks were by far the better team in this series, with only a poor second half of Game 2 keeping them from a sweep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That continued a strong surge for the Hawks, who went 27-11 after March 1, when Lloyd Pierce was fired and replaced by McMillan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They won the two games in Atlanta easily and returned to New York confident they could close it out. Capela downplayed the Knicks’ attempts to play physically, saying the Hawks could do that and also win the games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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