GoNYGoNYGo!!! Yes sir! My Knicks are making moves!
The Knicks romped to their first Atlantic Division title since 1994 beating the Wizards 120-99 last night for their 13th straight victory. More Details and video highlights after the jump…
Via ESPN:
They hung nicely in the lockers, T-shirts that can only be won, not bought.
“Can’t Stop NY Knicks,” they read. “2013 Division Champions.”
A “long overdue” prize for the franchise, coach Mike Woodson called it, and one that players set as a top priority in training camp.
“It’s a great thing to achieve one of your main goals, and now we’ve just got to go get that gold ball,” reserve J.R. Smith said.
Carmelo Anthony, the NBA’s scoring leader, added eight rebounds and six assists while becoming the first Knick since newly elected Hall of Famer Bernard King with five straight 35-point games.
“I just think Melo, he’s been on a nice run and I mean it’s nice to see because and I know what he’s thinking,” Woodson said. “He was thinking winning that division tonight and he wasn’t going to leave any doubt in anybody’s mind that we earned the rights to win the division tonight.”
Iman Shumpert added 18 points for the Knicks, who negated a height disadvantage by tying a franchise record with 20 3-pointers. Smith and Chris Copeland each added 17 points.
On their longest winning streak since winning 15 in a row from March 1 to April 2, 1994, the Knicks can tie the franchise record of 18 in a row, set early in their first NBA championship season of 1969-70, by winning their final five games.
Next up is a visit Thursday to the Chicago Bulls, who have won all three meetings this season and ended Miami’s 27-game winning streak last month.
The Knicks have won or shared six division titles, but had gone nearly two decades without looking at the rest of the Atlantic from the top.
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