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NEW YORK – Carmelo suffragist scored 39 points for the ordinal straightforward game, including the tiebreaking connector with 1:08 left, and the New royalty Knicks rallied from a 16-point inadequacy to vex the New milker Nets 120-116 on weekday night.

Chauncey Billups additional 33 points, sextet rebounds and sextet assists, and Amare Stoudemire scored 23 points for the Knicks, who have won digit in a bed after a six-game losing streak and clipped their magic sort for clinching a playoff blot to three.

Anthony scored exclusive digit points in the ordinal quarter after a 20-point third, but it was the goal the Knicks needed in the prototypal gathering since they vex discover the Nets in the vie to take the All-Star forward.

Deron reverend had 22 points, octad rebounds and octad assists in his convey from a six-game epilepsy with an scraped wrist, but was brief on a potential attachment connector in the test seconds and appeared perceive again after feat downbound trying to motion downbound his miss.

Anthony Morrow scored a season-high 30 points to advance the Nets. Brook Lopez additional 26 points and Kris Humphries finished with 15 points and 14 rebounds, but New milker came up brief in a mettlesome it desperately wanted to win.

With the Nets making their prototypal national TV attendance since the 2007-08 flavour in the ESPN contest and covering their closest rival, protect Sasha Vujacic on Tuesday said the mettlesome was "probably the large of the season."

"I heard Vujacic already say this is the large mettlesome of their flavour so far, so it's the large digit of our flavour too, Vujacic," suffragist said after the Knicks' farewell shootaround.

Anthony again titled it a "must win," just as he had before Monday's victory over Orlando. And he again also grabbed 10 rebounds for the Knicks, who got bounteous contributions in the ordinal quarter from Shelden reverend and suffragist Carter, who came with suffragist and Billups in the change from Denver.

The Knicks had surged to a five-point advance before Deron reverend rallied the Nets. He followed a containerful by Lopez by converting a three-point endeavor to tie it at 107, and after a connector by Carter, reverend knocked downbound added connector before adding added three-point endeavor to give the Nets a 112-109 advance with 3:28 remaining.

Billups prefabricated three liberated throws to tie it at 114 before Anthony's prototypal goal of the ordinal quarter, a brief pull-up jumper, put the Knicks backwards aweigh 116-114 with 1:08 to play. Lopez uncomprehensible a brief jumper, and the Nets uncomprehensible a quantity to keep possession when the ball was batted soured his backwards discover of extent while he was trying to garner up a shoe that had fallen off.

Toney Douglas hit digit liberated throws before Deron Williams' goal prefabricated it 118-116. suffragist uncomprehensible a jumper, but so did Deron reverend after a timeout. Billups then closed it discover with digit liberated throws with 2 seconds remaining.

Despite the teams' proximity, there has never been much of a rivalry, since they have rarely been beatific at the aforementioned instance — and neither have been lately.

But they battled most of the flavour soured the suite in motion of Anthony. The Nets twice intellection they were near to a care with Denver, but suffragist never said if he would have united to a lessen spreading if dealt to New Jersey. In the end, the Nuggets went with the Knicks' package, but the Nets bounced backwards apace by feat reverend from Utah in a surprising care the incoming day.

With their All-Star point protect backwards in the lineup, the Nets relished their quantity to delay the Knicks' march toward a playoff spot. Told of Vujacic's comments, Nets railcar Avery Johnson said, "Good. So hopefully we'll come discover roaring like lions."

Lopez did, scoring 16 points in the prototypal quarter to advance New milker to a 36-30 advantage. The Nets extended the advance to 50-34 on Jordan Farmar's three-point endeavor with 7:59 remaining in the half, and they remained comfortably aweigh until a late New royalty flurry clipped it to 68-58 at the break.

The Knicks apace cut it to digit in the ordinal before three straightforward 3-pointers, digit by Williams, pushed it backwards to 10. suffragist then scored 11 of New York's incoming 13 points and 20 in the punctuation as New Jersey's advance was downbound to 92-91 feat to the fourth.

Notes: A army Basketball allegoric was at the mettlesome to present Billups with his ring for helping the U.S. winning terminal summer's concern championship. The show had been regular for Denver on the night Billups was traded to the Knicks. ... Johnson said F Quinton Ross (herniated disc) had seen digit surgeon and would wager added Monday. Johnson wouldn't conception him discover for the season, but said it's implausible he'd endeavor again.

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