MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — OG Anunoby had 25 points and 13 rebounds, Karl-Anthony Towns had 20 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists for his fourth triple-double of the season, and the New York Knicks beat the Memphis Grizzlies 130-119 on Wednesday night.
Mikal Bridges added 24 points as New York snapped a three-game losing streak.
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New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns (32) handles the ball against Memphis Grizzlies forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper (18) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)
New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns (32) handles the ball against Memphis Grizzlies guards Javon Small (10) and Cam Spencer (24) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)
New York Knicks guard Josh Hart (3) handles the ball against Memphis Grizzlies forward Cedric Coward (23) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)
Memphis Grizzlies guard Javon Small (10) shoots against New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns (32) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)
Memphis Grizzlies forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper (18) shoots against New York Knicks forward OG Anunoby (8) and guard Mikal Bridges (25) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)
GG Jackson led Memphis with 20 points, Olivier-Maxence Prosper added 17 and Cedric Coward finished with 15 points.
The Knicks sit in third place in the Eastern Conference, a game and a half ahead of the Cavaliers, who were idle Wednesday night.
The Knicks took an early lead, missing only two of their first 15 shots. New York scored 22 points in the paint and had an 11-2 advantage on the boards in the first quarter. New York shot 71% overall, including 7 of 10 from outside the arc, in the first half and took a 79-62 lead at halftime.
The 79 points were a season-high for a Knicks first half and just short of the 83 New York scored in the second half against Minnesota on Nov. 5.
The Grizzlies were outrebounded 49-20 in the game, the 20 boards a franchise low.
The Grizzlies cut the Knicks' lead to 90-87 in the third quarter before the Knicks pulled ahead to lead 99-90 entering the fourth.
The Grizzlies were again short-handed with injuries throughout their roster. And earlier Wednesday, forward Brandon Clarke, who has missed most of this season recovering from knee surgery and a right calf strain, was arrested in Arkansas on drug and reckless driving charges.
Knicks: Host the Chicago Bulls on Friday night.
Grizzlies: Entertain Toronto on Friday night.
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New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns (32) handles the ball against Memphis Grizzlies forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper (18) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)
New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns (32) handles the ball against Memphis Grizzlies guards Javon Small (10) and Cam Spencer (24) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)
New York Knicks guard Josh Hart (3) handles the ball against Memphis Grizzlies forward Cedric Coward (23) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)
Memphis Grizzlies guard Javon Small (10) shoots against New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns (32) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)
Memphis Grizzlies forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper (18) shoots against New York Knicks forward OG Anunoby (8) and guard Mikal Bridges (25) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump mischaracterized core elements of the U.S. economy and stretched the facts in claiming to have toppled Iran’s government as he addressed the nation Wednesday night in a time of soaring gas prices and persistent inflation.
Here's a look at some of his statements:
CLAIM: “We were a dead and crippled country after the last administration and made it the hottest country anywhere in the world by far, with no inflation.’’
THE FACTS: This is a standard Trump claim. But the economy he inherited was far from weak. In 2024, the last year of Joe Biden's presidency, American gross domestic product grew 2.8%, adjusted for inflation, faster than any wealthy country in the world except Spain. It also expanded at a healthy rate from 2021 through 2023. Last year, in fact, U.S. economic growth decelerated under Trump to a still-respectable 2.1%, partly because the 43-day federal government shutdown slashed growth from October through December.
Nor has inflation vanished. The Labor Department’s consumer price index was up 2.4% in February compared with a year earlier. It’s still above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target.
CLAIM: “Regime change was not our goal. We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders' death. They’re all dead. The new group is less radical and much more reasonable.”
THE FACTS: Trump's depiction of the people now in charge in Iran, after scores of senior leaders were killed in the war, stretches credulity.
Israel’s airstrike at the start of the war Feb. 28 killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran then installed his son, Mojtaba, who is viewed as even more hard-line, as supreme leader. The monthlong war has seen Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard grow even more ascendant. Iran's civilian leadership — broadly untouched by the war -- acknowledges it has little command and control over the Guard's actions.
Both Trump and Israel have signaled they would tell the Iranian people to rise up at a point in the war to take back their government. That hasn’t happened.
CLAIM: “This murderous regime also recently killed 45,000 of their own people who were protesting in Iran.”
THE FACTS: A death toll that high has not been verified.
The U.S.-based group Human Rights Activists News Agency, which has been accurate in multiple rounds of demonstrations in Iran, said it confirmed the deaths of just over 7,000 people in the nationwide protests that reached their apex in January. However, it said thousands more may have been killed, though internet and communication restrictions in Iran since have made verifying the reports incredibly difficult. It put total arrests at more than 53,000.
Iran’s government, which long has played down death tolls in other unrest, offered its only toll on Jan. 21, saying 3,117 people were killed.
Trump previously said that at least 32,000 people were killed in January protests, which is at the far end of estimates offered by activists for the death toll. He offered no evidence to support those figures.
This is how the AP reports on the death toll from Iran’s protests.
CLAIM: “We’re now totally independent of the Middle East, and yet we are there to help. We don’t have to be there. We don’t need their oil.’’
THE FACTS: It’s true that the United States is by far the world’s leading producer of oil and relies on the Persian Gulf for a fraction (8.5% in 2025) of the oil it imports. But, as is obvious at U.S. gas pumps, that doesn’t mean it is unaffected by the turmoil in the Middle East.
Oil is a commodity, “the price of which is set in a global market,’’ University of Chicago energy analyst Sam Ori said before Trump’s speech, “and a disruption anywhere affects the price everywhere.’’ Which is why the price of benchmark U.S. crude oil is up more than 50% since the Iran war began, and the average price of U.S. gallon of gasoline cracked $4 a gallon this week.
CLAIM: Trump cited “record-setting setting investments coming into the United States, over $18 trillion.”
THE FACTS: Trump has presented no evidence that he’s secured this much domestic or foreign investment in the U.S. Based on statements from various companies, foreign countries and the White House’s own website, that figure appears to be exaggerated, highly speculative and far higher than the actual sum. The White House website offers a far lower number, $10.5 trillion, and that figure appears to include some investment commitments made during the Biden administration.
A study published in January raised doubts about whether more than $5 trillion in investment commitments made last year by many of America’s biggest trading partners will actually materialize and questions how it would be spent if it did.
CLAIM: “Obama gave them $1.7 billion in cash.”
THE FACTS: This misleading claim that President Barack Obama handed over cash to the Iranians dates back to Trump’s first term and persists in his second.
The U.S. treasury did pay Iran roughly that amount under Obama. But it was not a gift. Rather, it was money owed to the Iranians since the 1970s, when they paid the U.S. $400 million for military equipment that was never delivered because the government was overthrown and diplomatic relations ruptured.
After the 2015 deal to restrain Iran’s nuclear development, the U.S. and Iran announced they had settled the matter, with the U.S. agreeing to pay the $400 million principal in cash, along with about $1.3 billion in interest. Trump later took the U.S. out of the deal.
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Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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President Donald Trump gestures after speaking about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
