A bizarre scene played out at TD Garden after the Knicks cobbled together their second consecutive comeback win in Game 2 over the Celtics.
Fire alarms blared after the 91-90 win, interrupting Josh Hart and Jalen Brunson’s postgame news conference and forcing an evacuation of the arena on Wednesday night.
Hart was in the middle of answering a reporter’s question when the alarms went off.
The Knicks guard quickly noticed the sound and made a surprised face when no one else in the room seemed to be reacting to it.
“No one else is worried about that? All right,” he said before finishing his answer.
It turned out that the alarm was more than just a malfunctioning one, with the arena being evacuated shortly after that moment and fire engines from the Boston Fire Department arriving at the building.
Boston Herald Celtics reporter Zack Cox posted on X that there was a fire in an elevator inside the arena that caused the evacuation, and media members were allowed to re-enter TD Garden around 10:40 p.m.
A number of reporters, including The Post’s Stefan Bondy, posted photos and video of media members and arena staff waiting outside one of the building’s entrances as firefighters arrived on the scene.
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Team personnel and commuters from North Station, which is located underneath the arena, were also evacuated, MassLive reported.
“Fire alarm went off tonight post game and arena was evacuated. No one was injured. The cause of the fire alarm is currently under investigation,” TD Garden said in a statement.
All of this occurred after the Knicks managed to pull off a second comeback win and take a 2-0 series lead back to New York, the sight of Game 3 on Saturday afternoon.
The Knicks had trailed by as much as 20 before they closed the gap in the second half and finally took their first lead of the game with just under two minutes off a Brunson 3-pointer.
Brunson scored the game-winning basket on a pair of free throws with 12.1 seconds left in the game.
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