Knicks Embarrassed in Opener at the Garden
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Boston smacked its hosts around and pinned a defeat on the Knicks, who absorbed their most lopsided home-opening loss.
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The Knicks competed early, kept it respectable in the third quarter and then faded badly on a night full of distractions at Madison Square Garden.
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Knicks coach Isiah Thomas enjoyed a rare easy night at Madison Square Garden.
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The Knicks flashed the resiliency that has kept them afloat and made them intriguing, but only after reminding everyone of their worst traits in a loss to Golden State.
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Knicks coach Isiah Thomas recently sat down for his pregame remarks to the media and was asked one of the easiest questions he's faced in a long time. What was it like to be a game out of first place?
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A different starting lineup led to a different end result. In his first start of the season, Jared Jeffries had 15 points, seven rebounds, three steals and an assist to help the New York Knicks beat the Atlanta Hawks 94-82 on Wednesday night. Jeffries replaced Davis Lee in the starting lineup.
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The Knicks and Nets met again on Tuesday, but the scene would have been unrecognizable to anyone who watched their playoff rumble of last spring.
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The Pistons are the defending NBA champions for a reason and the Knicks are a first-round playoff team, at best, for a reason. The Pistons came to the Garden last night and led for only a few seconds.
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Maybe this was the Knicks&#39; way of pleading to Allan Houston to come back to work. Immediately. Lenny Wilkens&#39; team doesn&#39;t play enough defense to survive a sub-par offensive game, particularly from their vaunted backcourt.
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NBA scoring leader Carmelo Anthony and  nine other players were ejected after an ugly incident marred  the end of the Denver Nuggets' 123-100 victory over the New  York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on Saturday.
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After nearly 11 months of drastic changes since Thomas replaced Scott Layden as president of the Knicks, a sellout crowd turned out for the home opener against Boston expecting to see a new dawn
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With sexual harassment lawsuits, a tax scare and the Knicks rather uninspired, these are not exactly halcyon days for Madison Square Garden.
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The Knicks found a better way to fight back against the Denver Nuggets. Zach Randolph had 22 points and 17 rebounds, three other players scored more than 20 points, and New York erased a series of double-digit deficits to win, 119-112, last night in Denver's first trip to Madison Square Garden since last year's brawl.
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The Nets greeted the first visit of the season from their hated rivals last night with the same sense of giddiness as the news that the dry cleaning is ready for pick-up, or that PSE&amp;G
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In Auburn Hills, Michigan, a leg injury and an overtime loss to the Detroit Pistons ruined Vince Carter&#39;s debut for New Jersey.
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It was the kind of defense these Knicks are not known for. The kind they often pay lip service to. The kind that leads to ugly basketball, long stretches without points and NBA victories.
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Allan Houston had his best game of the season with 25 points on 8-for-12 shooting, and Jerome Williams played 44 minutes in his first start for the Knicks to lead New York past the Portland Trail Blazers 113-105 Sunday night.