Raymond Felton scored a career-high 35 points on 13-of-17 shooting and dished out 11 assists, and the Knicks withstood Golden State’s late rally to beat the Warriors 125-119 on Friday night and snap an eight-game losing streak in Oakland. Amare Stoudemire made a driving layin with 2:42 left and finished with 26 points and 11 rebounds. Danilo Gallinari(notes) added 23 points and knocked down a key 3-pointer with 1:25 left as New York handed the Warriors their first home loss of the season and ended a four-game skid in the series overall. Monta Ellis(notes) scored 40 points for his sixth career 40-point game and Stephen Curry(notes) had 29 points, eight assists and five rebounds for the Warriors. Golden State won its first five games at Oracle Arena under first-year coach Keith Smart, the team’s best home start since going 6-0 to begin the 1990-91 season. Reggie Williams(notes) hit two key 3-pointers that pulled the Warriors within 104-100 with 6:47 to play and scored all but two of his 18 points in the final period. But the Knicks, who led by as many as 18 before letting Golden State get within two late, made the clutch plays down the stretch. Warriors power forward David Lee(notes) watched this one from the bench in street clothes. He attended the game against his former team one day after being released from a hospital following a second procedure on his left elbow to treat an infection. Lee—averaging 14.3 points, 11.3 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 34.6 minutes in eight games after Golden State acquired him in a July trade with the Knicks—initially had surgery last Friday after he cut the inside of his elbow in a nasty collision Nov. 10 with the mouth of New York’s Wilson Chandler(notes), who left a fragment of a tooth in Lee’s arm. After Lee’s elbow swelled and bled overnight, he went to an emergency room for antibiotics. He is wearing a brace and is scheduled to be re-evaluated Tuesday. Vladimir Radmanovic(notes) earned his second straight start in place of Lee, getting six points on 2-for-7 shooting in 17 minutes. But the Warriors really miss Lee’s rebounding. They were outboarded (42-33) for only the sixth time in their first 12 games. Ellis shot 17 for 30. He hit 10 of his first 14 shots and started the second quarter by making five of six. But that didn’t do it for a sellout crowd of 19,808 that went home disappointed. It was Golden State’s first sellout this season. “Monta is playing like our superstar,” Smart said. “Is he a superstar in the minds of everyone else? We’ve got to get somebody else on our team—two, three, one guy—to get to his level or halfway to his level.” New York snapped a six-game losing streak with a 113-106 win at Sacramento on Wednesday and followed that up with another strong performance. The Knicks won in Oakland for the first time since Nov. 20, 2001. Next up is a date with the Clippers in Los Angeles on Saturday night, the fifth of 21 back-to-back games for the Knicks this season and second of five on the road. “We’ve got an opportunity to make this a special trip,” Stoudemire said. “After the slow start, we’re starting to get our momentum, starting to get our swagger and our identity, (figure out) what type of team we are. And in the process, we’re getting a few. So if we can go into L.A. and get this win, it’ll be a great trip for us and we’ll be on the right track.” The Warriors won last week’s meeting 112-91 at Madison Square Garden, surrendering a 19-point, third-quarter lead before holding on to win. The Knicks’ second bus was late arriving at Oracle Arena on a rainy Friday night with heavy rush-hour traffic. It didn’t keep New York from a hot start. The Knicks hit 10 of their initial 15 shots and made 16-of-18 free throws on the way to a 72-59 halftime lead. Golden State got to the line only five times in the first half. Smart got on his team during the break about a lack of intensity. Ellis spoke up, too. “The first half was sluggish,” Williams said. “The energy we brought in the second half was good, and hopefully we can carry that over to our next game.” New York C Eddy Curry(notes) was away from the team to attend to a family matter. … The Knicks improved to 2-5 vs. the Western Conference. … The Warriors still have won 15 of the last 20 overall with the Knicks. … Radmanovic celebrated his 30th birthday. … Former Stanford star Landry Fields(notes) returned to the Bay Area with the Knicks. … The Warriors announced a new partnership with the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) called “Flip the Chip”—a campaign to encourage fans to celebrate responsibly by “flipping” a chip to determine the designated sober driver before they head out to watch the game. … Golden State celebrated Filipino Heritage Night.
Los Angeles Lakers has made a 112-95 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night. The defending NBA champions were ready from the start, and that was bad news for a young team that thought it was finally starting to figure things out. Kobe Bryant(notes) had 23 points and eight rebounds, and Matt Barnes(notes) scored 24 on 7-of-7 shooting to lead the Lakers to a 112-95 victory over the Timberwolves on Friday night. Odom dominated his Team USA teammate Love with 11 points, eight rebounds and seven assists for the Lakers (11-2). Love, the NBA’s leading rebounder, had just seven rebounds and was scoreless on 0-for-7 shooting, a far cry from his 23-point, 24-rebound performance in a five-point loss at Staples Center on Nov. 9. “Lamar was embarrassed after the first game,” coach Phil Jackson said. “I told him, ‘I know why Kevin made the USA team, because he practiced against you every day.”’ The motivated Lakers were too much for the Wolves from the start. By the end, a despondent Love was trudging off the court with teammate Anthony Tolliver’s(notes) arm around his neck, his historic 31-point, 31-rebound performance against the Knicks last week a distant memory. “That was probably the most poor game of my career,” Love said. “I apologize to my teammates, coaches, everybody. I can’t have a game like that.” Darko Milicic(notes) had career highs with 23 points, 16 rebounds and six blocks, and Michael Beasley(notes) had 25 points and 10 rebounds for the Wolves (4-10). “I think we enjoyed competing against each other because we did so much this summer,” Odom said of Love. “It seems like all the guys on the team are having good years. You just want to come out and compete against somebody you consider a friend.” Barnes signed a two-year, $3.6 million contract in July and has been worth every penny and then some. Jackson calls the second unit “The Renegades,” and Barnes led the way with seven rebounds and six assists. With Bryant making just eight of 27 shots, Barnes’ sharpshooting couldn’t have come at a better time. It was the best game for Barnes since he scored 25 points, including 7 for 8 on 3s, with eight rebounds in Golden State’s victory over Philadelphia in 2006. Pau Gasol(notes) chipped in 16 points and 14 rebounds, and the Lakers held Minnesota to 39.6 percent shooting. Bryant didn’t shoot a high percentage, but he gave the many who paid to see him more than their money’s worth in the third quarter. He wowed the crowd with a Jordanesque reverse layup, then caught a lob from Derek Fisher(notes) in traffic, laid it in and converted the three-point play for a 72-55 lead. Bryant grabbed all the highlights, but it was Barnes’ shot-making that made the difference. He scored the last 10 points of the third for the Lakers, hitting three 3-pointers and turning one into a four-point play to keep the Wolves from creeping back into it. “That’s the depth of our team,” Bryant said. “Any given night guys can hurt you.” The Timberwolves came into the game on a hot streak by their standards. Winners of three of the previous five games, the Wolves have gotten impressive performances from Beasley and Love to invigorate a fan base that has been disillusioned by years of losing. The Target Center was sold out for the first time all season, with plenty of Laker fans turning out to cheer Bryant and the two-time defending champs. Pregame introductions included a video that read, “It’s happening. The Timberwolves are back.” Not just yet. The Timberwolves never got closer than eight points in the second half and the Lakers put it away with a 12-0 run that turned the final seven minutes into garbage time. “It’s disappointing that we lost, the fact that we lost,” Beasley said. “No matter where we lost, how big the crowd was, how big the game was, just the fact we lost the game. But we can’t really let this loss bring us down. We’ve been playing good basketball as of late. Today was just one of those days. We’ve just got to keep it moving.” Jackson was asked how Love, who doesn’t have a ton of athletic ability, can be so effective on the boards. “He fouls a lot and gets away with it,” Jackson deadpanned. … Beasley topped 25 points for the sixth straight game, the first time a Timberwolves player has done that since Kevin Garnett(notes) in 2000. … Wolves rookie Wes Johnson had a rough nigh with just five points on 2-for-9 shooting.Golden State Warriors Vs Los Angeles Lakers Live NBA National Basketball Streaming internet Feed Video broadcast Best Quality Soapcast Radio coverage Sunday, November 21, 2010.
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