THE FACTS: In a game he called “almost a must win,” Carmelo Anthony scored a game-high 39 points to go with 10 rebounds and the Knicks snapped a six-game losing streak by beating Orlando, 113-106, in overtime at Madison Square Garden. New York, the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference, won for just the second time in its last 11 outings.
QUOTABLE: “I said that…that is how I felt…that is how we felt as a team that it was a must win for us. We as a team backed it up tonight. We showed when we play with energy and intensity, we just play hard a lot of things fall into place for us.”
— Anthony
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**And here’s the pre-game blog where Stan Van Gundy says he doesn’t “give a damn” about Miami or the Knicks.
