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Fort lee Posted 4 years ago
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Knotted at 2 games apiece

Hi, can someone help me understand the red italic part of the paragraph below?

I don't understand what "knotted at 2 games apiece" means.


Thanks!!


In a demonstrative and dominating performance that was one of the best of his postseason career, Stephen Curry scored 43 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 107-97 victory over the Boston Celtics in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Friday night, sending the series back to San Francisco knotted at two games apiece.

  

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fort lee I don't understand what "knotted at 2 games apiece" means. It means "tied at two games apiece", which means that each team has won two games in the series. Sportswriters have a language all their own.

  • fort lee I don't understand what "knotted at 2 games apiece" means.
  • It means "tied at two games apiece", which means that each team has won two games in the series.
  • Sportswriters have a language all their own.
  • A tie is when two teams have the same score, and there is no winner, at least not yet.
  • By absurd extension, to tie is to make a knot.
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fort leeI don't understand what "knotted at 2 games apiece" means.

It means "tied at two games apiece", which means that each team has won two games in the series. Sportswriters have a language all their own. A tie is when two teams have the same score, and there is no winner, at least not yet. By absurd extension, to tie is to make a knot. It's a sort of p

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