NEW YORK (Interstat) — Jalen Brunson scored 33 points and the New York Knicks routed the Chicago Bulls 135-105 on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden. OG Anunoby added 18 points and Karl-Anthony Towns finished with 17 points and 12 rebounds as the Knicks won for the fourth time in five games following an 0-3 start to the season. The Bulls have lost six straight and fell to 1-7. New York improved to 4-4. Attendance was 19,812.

New York seized control in the first quarter. Landry Shamet opened the scoring with a driving dunk, and after Josh Giddey hit a 3-pointer for Chicago, the Knicks answered with Brunson free throws, a Brunson running layup and a pair of Anunoby free throws. Brunson hit a 24-foot step-back 3-pointer with 8:35 remaining in the quarter to make it 15-8, then added a 1-foot shot and a 10-foot fadeaway as the lead grew. Anunoby made four free throws in a 27-second span, and Brunson capped the quarter with a 26-foot 3-pointer with 35 seconds left to give New York a 43-21 lead. Brunson hit four 3-pointers in the opening period. Chicago made 8 of 24 shots in the quarter and never recovered.

The Knicks stretched the lead to 84-52 by halftime. New York opened the second quarter with two Anunoby free throws and a running dunk, and Mikal Bridges added a 25-foot 3-pointer with 7:41 left in the half. Chicago’s Matas Buzelis tried to keep pace with a driving layup and a 3-pointer in the final minute of the half, but Dalton Knecht hit a 25-foot step-back 3 with 5.8 seconds remaining to make it 84-49, and Buzelis answered with a 24-foot 3 at the buzzer for the 84-52 halftime score.

New York put the game away in the third quarter. Towns opened the second half with two 25-foot 3-pointers in the first 53 seconds, and Brunson added a 15-foot step-back and a 26-foot 3-pointer as the lead reached 98-59. Chicago never cut the deficit below 30 in the period. Tre Jones scored eight of Chicago’s final 12 points in the third, including a 25-foot 3 and three free throws, but New York led 113-79 after three quarters. The Knicks led by as many as 36 in the fourth quarter after Dalton Knecht’s 5-foot pullup with 4:43 remaining made it 129-93. Chicago closed on a 12-6 run, capped by Jordan Hawkins’ driving layup with 4.4 seconds left.

Brunson finished with 33 points, two rebounds and four assists in 28 minutes. Towns had 17 points and 12 rebounds in 25 minutes. Anunoby added 18 points and five rebounds in 24 minutes. Bridges had seven points, four rebounds and four assists. Mohamed Diawara contributed eight points, six rebounds, four assists and two blocks. Knecht scored 10 points with seven rebounds. James Wiseman had eight points, eight rebounds and three blocks. For Chicago, Buzelis had 12 points, five rebounds and three assists. Jaylin Sellers scored 14 points, and Tre Jones had 14 points, three rebounds and four assists.

New York shot 44 of 87 from the floor, 17 of 40 from 3-point range and 30 of 37 from the free-throw line. Chicago shot 37 of 96, 10 of 44 from beyond the arc and 21 of 28 at the line. New York scored 135 points from 101 possessions, an offensive rating of 134.2. Chicago scored 105 points from 105 possessions, an offensive rating of 99.7. Chicago had 15 offensive rebounds to New York’s 17. The Knicks had seven assists to Chicago’s six. New York blocked six shots to Chicago’s four. Chicago committed 11 turnovers and 23 fouls. New York committed 13 turnovers and 21 fouls.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of New York 112, Chicago 110. Interstat’s ELO system had projected New York with a 98.6 percent probability to win. New York had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -11.5. The total score of 240 went under the over/under line of 233.5.