NBA
Regular Season Round 163: New York K. - Atlanta H. 98-92
Date: April 17, 2013
Even when the Knicks attempt to rest players to prepare for the playoffs, they can’t avoid the injury bug that has plagued them all season. Who expected Game 82 to be any different? Pablo Prigioni, the 35-year-old rookie guard who has started the past 18 games, left Wednesday’s regular-season finale after suffering a sprained right ankle – X-rays were negative -- late in the first quarter of the Knicks’ 98-92 win over Atlanta at the Garden. Iman Shumpert also left the game with what the Knicks said were cramps in his right leg –- not the one he had surgically repaired last spring -- with barely five minutes remaining and did not return. With NBA scoring champion Carmelo Anthony, J.R. Smith and Jason Kidd taking the night off, Mike Woodson initially said the Knicks (54-28) had eight available players. But he stuck with just six once Prigioni headed to the locker room after rolling his ankle on a drive to the basket with 55 seconds left in the first quarter -- leaving starting point guard Raymond Felton in his warm-up suit on the bench. The sextet included two players brought back for their second tours of duty with the team. Center Earl Barron had 11 points and 18 rebounds after he was signed earlier in the day to replace retiring Rasheed Wallace (foot) on the roster, and Quentin Richardson had five points and 10 boards in 29 minutes in his first appearance since signing Tuesday to provide another perimeter option off the bench. Chris Copeland led the way with a career-high 33 points, becoming the first Knick rookie since Bill Cartwright (1980) with consecutive 30-point games. James White added 20 and Shumpert, who mostly manned the point after Prigioni’s departure, finished with 18 points, eight assists and seven rebounds in 38 minutes. Neither Anthony nor Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant played in their team’s respective season finales, meaning the Knicks’ MVP candidate finished atop the league’s scoring race for the first time in his 10-year NBA career. Anthony sat out his second straight game to rest his bruised left shoulder for the playoffs, with his and the second-seeded Knicks’ quest for an NBA championship slated to begin Saturday against Boston at the Garden. “I think it’s great. It’s a nice individual award, but I know Melo is thinking bigger than the scoring title,” Woodson said of Anthony, who led the league with a scoring average of 28.7 points per game. “His whole thought process this year has been to try to get to the Finals. It starts Saturday.” Bernard King (1984-85) was the only other player in Knicks history to win a scoring title. The recently minted Hall of Famer averaged 32.9 points over 55 games in a season cut short by a knee injury. Durant, the league’s leading scorer in each of the previous three seasons, announced Wednesday morning that he was sitting out the Thunder’s final game against Milwaukee. Durant, averaging 28.1 points over 81 appearances, would have needed to score 70 points in that game to overtake Anthony, who missed 15 games to injury this season. Tyson Chandler (neck) and Kenyon Martin (ankle) also didn’t play, but Woodson reiterated that he expects the first two back for Game 1 against the Celtics. Chandler has missed 16 of the past 20 games with a bulging disc in his neck, and Martin has been sidelined for seven of the last eight with a sore knee and a sprained ankle. But both big men are expected to rejoin the Knicks in practice Thursday, Woodson said. “The sky’s the limit, man. I think we’ve got a legitimate shot,” Martin said. “I know what we have in this locker room and I know what these guys are about and what’s in these guys’ hearts. “I think we know what we can be. We’re not afraid of anybody and we feel like we can beat anybody.” Asked if he had any doubts about playing Saturday, Martin replied, “What’s doubt? It’s playoff basketball, dude. You gotta cut this thing off for me not to be ready ... No matter what it is, I’m going to play.” Courtesy of: nydailynews.com
Terms:
Field Goals : 2PM-A (2 point Field Goal made-attempts) 3PM-A (3 point Field Goal made-attempts) FTM-A (free throws made-attempt)
Rebounds : OFF (Offensive) DEF (Defensive) TOT (total)
Fouls : CM (Committed) RV (received)
Blocks : FV (In Favor) AG (Against)
Other terms : MIN (minutes) AST (assists) ST (steals) TO (Turnovers) PTS (points) RNK (ranking)
Regular Season Round 163: New York K. - Atlanta H. 98-92
Date: April 17, 2013
Even when the Knicks attempt to rest players to prepare for the playoffs, they can’t avoid the injury bug that has plagued them all season. Who expected Game 82 to be any different? Pablo Prigioni, the 35-year-old rookie guard who has started the past 18 games, left Wednesday’s regular-season finale after suffering a sprained right ankle – X-rays were negative -- late in the first quarter of the Knicks’ 98-92 win over Atlanta at the Garden. Iman Shumpert also left the game with what the Knicks said were cramps in his right leg –- not the one he had surgically repaired last spring -- with barely five minutes remaining and did not return. With NBA scoring champion Carmelo Anthony, J.R. Smith and Jason Kidd taking the night off, Mike Woodson initially said the Knicks (54-28) had eight available players. But he stuck with just six once Prigioni headed to the locker room after rolling his ankle on a drive to the basket with 55 seconds left in the first quarter -- leaving starting point guard Raymond Felton in his warm-up suit on the bench. The sextet included two players brought back for their second tours of duty with the team. Center Earl Barron had 11 points and 18 rebounds after he was signed earlier in the day to replace retiring Rasheed Wallace (foot) on the roster, and Quentin Richardson had five points and 10 boards in 29 minutes in his first appearance since signing Tuesday to provide another perimeter option off the bench. Chris Copeland led the way with a career-high 33 points, becoming the first Knick rookie since Bill Cartwright (1980) with consecutive 30-point games. James White added 20 and Shumpert, who mostly manned the point after Prigioni’s departure, finished with 18 points, eight assists and seven rebounds in 38 minutes. Neither Anthony nor Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant played in their team’s respective season finales, meaning the Knicks’ MVP candidate finished atop the league’s scoring race for the first time in his 10-year NBA career. Anthony sat out his second straight game to rest his bruised left shoulder for the playoffs, with his and the second-seeded Knicks’ quest for an NBA championship slated to begin Saturday against Boston at the Garden. “I think it’s great. It’s a nice individual award, but I know Melo is thinking bigger than the scoring title,” Woodson said of Anthony, who led the league with a scoring average of 28.7 points per game. “His whole thought process this year has been to try to get to the Finals. It starts Saturday.” Bernard King (1984-85) was the only other player in Knicks history to win a scoring title. The recently minted Hall of Famer averaged 32.9 points over 55 games in a season cut short by a knee injury. Durant, the league’s leading scorer in each of the previous three seasons, announced Wednesday morning that he was sitting out the Thunder’s final game against Milwaukee. Durant, averaging 28.1 points over 81 appearances, would have needed to score 70 points in that game to overtake Anthony, who missed 15 games to injury this season. Tyson Chandler (neck) and Kenyon Martin (ankle) also didn’t play, but Woodson reiterated that he expects the first two back for Game 1 against the Celtics. Chandler has missed 16 of the past 20 games with a bulging disc in his neck, and Martin has been sidelined for seven of the last eight with a sore knee and a sprained ankle. But both big men are expected to rejoin the Knicks in practice Thursday, Woodson said. “The sky’s the limit, man. I think we’ve got a legitimate shot,” Martin said. “I know what we have in this locker room and I know what these guys are about and what’s in these guys’ hearts. “I think we know what we can be. We’re not afraid of anybody and we feel like we can beat anybody.” Asked if he had any doubts about playing Saturday, Martin replied, “What’s doubt? It’s playoff basketball, dude. You gotta cut this thing off for me not to be ready ... No matter what it is, I’m going to play.” Courtesy of: nydailynews.com
 ATLANTA H. (coach: Quin Snyder)92 |
| FIELD GOALS | REBOUNDS | FOULS | BLOCKS | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | NAME | MIN | 2PM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | OFF | DEF | RB | AS | F | RV | ST | FV | AG | TO | PT | RNK | +/- |
| zRjVajs, zIhj | 47 | 2-64 (16.0%) | 5-1 (5%) | 3-0 (25%) | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 85 | 64 | 5 | |
| AZIUU, baVR | 41 | 65-88 (30.0%) | 5-5 (5%) | 4-4 (655%) | 0 | 7 | 63 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 84 | 84 | 5 | |
| biZV, AhRlLaj | 40 | 1-2 (90%) | 5-4 (5%) | 8-8 (655%) | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 63 | 64 | 5 | |
| wIllaLRQ, SjUhIjF | 44 | 5-4 (5%) | 8-1 (44.4%) | 8-8 (655%) | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 5 | |
| zIjRs, gihjUiF | 48 | 4-7 (44.4%) | 5-5 (5%) | 0-0 (655%) | 4 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 66 | 65 | 5 | |
| 78 | AURLRjsIj, gRAhiTj | 83 | 6-0 (85%) | 5-1 (5%) | 5-5 (5%) | 6 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | -4 | 5 |
| 33 | zIhjsIj, oLij | 85 | 1-1 (655%) | 5-5 (5%) | 5-5 (5%) | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 68 | 67 | 5 |
| 65 | ORUQI, zIhij | 85 | 6-4 (44.4%) | 5-5 (5%) | 5-5 (5%) | 5 | 66 | 66 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 |
| 43 | HiQQas, gRLaj | gXO - CIiZh's gRZasaIj | ||||||||||||||||
| 60 | HIQfIQd, SlfQRd | gXO - CIiZh's gRZasaIj | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | ABaUh, zIsh | gXO - CIiZh's gRZasaIj | ||||||||||||||||
| 81 | KIQLRQ, KFlR | gXO - CIiZh's gRZasaIj | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | wRiDuR, zRff | gXO - CIiZh's gRZasaIj | ||||||||||||||||
| wIUil | 40-17 (05.9%) | 8-86 (7.0%) | 61-69 (73.6%) | 60 | 42 | 04 | 63 | 60 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 68 | 78 | 29 | |||
 NEW YORK K. (coach: Michael Brown)98 |
| FIELD GOALS | REBOUNDS | FOULS | BLOCKS | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | NAME | MIN | 2PM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | OFF | DEF | RB | AS | F | RV | ST | FV | AG | TO | PT | RNK | +/- |
| WhaUR, ziBRs | 33 | 0-7 (00.1%) | 4-1 (05%) | 6-6 (655%) | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 85 | 67 | 5 | |
| 61 | XILiV, AURLR | 36 | 5-8 (5%) | 6-1 (61.9%) | 5-5 (5%) | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | -8 | 5 |
| CIpRlijd, ChQasUIphRQ | 35 | 64-80 (08%) | 6-3 (80%) | 3-2 (05%) | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 44 | 60 | 5 | |
| 86 | AhuBpRQU, oBij | 42 | 1-7 (11.9%) | 6-8 (05%) | 4-4 (655%) | 6 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 62 | 80 | 5 |
| miQQIj, qiQl | 49 | 0-63 (40.9%) | 5-5 (5%) | 6-8 (05%) | 1 | 68 | 62 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 66 | 85 | 5 | |
| eaZhiQdsIj, ruRjUaj | 87 | 5-9 (5%) | 6-3 (80%) | 8-8 (655%) | 0 | 0 | 65 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 5 | |
| 7 | OQaDaIja, OiMlI | 66 | 6-6 (655%) | 8-8 (655%) | 5-5 (5%) | 6 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 60 | 5 |
| biQUaj, KRjFIj | gXO - CIiZh's gRZasaIj | |||||||||||||||||
| 0 | Kadd, zisIj | gXO - CIiZh's gRZasaIj | ||||||||||||||||
| 84 | CiBMF, biQZus | gXO - CIiZh's gRZasaIj | ||||||||||||||||
| 8 | yRlUIj, eiFBIjd | gXO - CIiZh's gRZasaIj | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | ABaUh, z.e. | gXO - CIiZh's gRZasaIj | ||||||||||||||||
| wIUil | 45-19 (33.2%) | 7-83 (49.0%) | 66-61 (12.2%) | 61 | 43 | 05 | 86 | 61 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 68 | 72 | 70 | |||
Terms:
Field Goals : 2PM-A (2 point Field Goal made-attempts) 3PM-A (3 point Field Goal made-attempts) FTM-A (free throws made-attempt)
Rebounds : OFF (Offensive) DEF (Defensive) TOT (total)
Fouls : CM (Committed) RV (received)
Blocks : FV (In Favor) AG (Against)
Other terms : MIN (minutes) AST (assists) ST (steals) TO (Turnovers) PTS (points) RNK (ranking)
