MIAMI — The Los Angeles Lakers are still at the bottom of the league in bench scoring. The New York Knicks are not — and that difference might define this stretch without two starters.

It’s why the Knicks are equipped to survive however long they’ll be without both Jalen Brunson and OG Anunoby. Brunson missed Friday’s matchup against the Miami Heat with a sprained ankle, and Anunoby will miss at least two weeks after straining his left hamstring five minutes into the first quarter of the same game.

Without two key starters, the Knicks still walked out of Madison Square Garden with a 140–132 win . And while Brunson traveled with the team for the first leg of their five-game road trip, Anunoby did not, signaling that Mike Brown will need to reach deeper into his rotation to fill the

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