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MADISON SQUARE GARDEN NYC : Last Night's Action:  Knicks Can't Stay With 
Heat After scoring a moral victory in Wednesday's  two-point loss to the 
Celtics, the Knicks couldn't even salvage that much on  Friday. LeBron James, 
playing at Madison Square Garden for the first time since  joining the Heat as 
a free agent, had a triple-double in Miami's 113-91 win over  the Knicks. 
Dwyane Wade and LeBron James had 26 points each. Danilo Gallinari  led the 
Knicks with 25 points, and Amar'e Stoudemire scored 25. It was the first  time 
in 10 games he didn't have 30 or more points. Knicks fans booed James  
heartily, but couldn't help their team contain him. When he hit a 3-pointer in  
the third quarter, he erased a two-point New York lead and gave Miami the 
lead  for good. The Knicks visit Cleveland on Saturday.
 
 
 
 
 
 
-- LeBron James always said he loved playing here.  
 
He must have really, really loved it Friday night - even with a deafening  
chorus of boos ringing in his ears.  
James delivered another vintage performance at Madison Square Garden, 
scoring  32 points and finishing with his 30th career triple-double to help the 
Miami  Heat beat the New York Knicks 113-91 for their 11th straight victory.  
James had 11 rebounds and 10 assists, silencing a star-studded crowd that  
once cheered him lustily - in fact, he was always an MSG favorite - but 
jeered  him this time because he snubbed the Knicks in free agency.  
The frostiness didn't seem to faze him, certainly not his game.  
"This is a great building," James said. "Myself and D-Wade talk about it 
all  the time. Certain buildings in this league that you just thrive on and 
you're  excited about, and this being the Mecca of basketball as a kid you 
always  envision not only playing in the NBA but also having a chance to play 
in Madison  Square Garden."  
Though it was hardly a warm welcome, James' first visit in more than a year 
 was heralded by nonstop hype on TV and in the tabs and was a must-see for  
celebrity fans including Spike Lee, Woody Allen, Liam Neeson and Tracy 
Morgan.  
What they saw was the league's MVP toying with a Knicks team hoping to 
prove  it belonged with the big boys but was, instead, overwhelmed by his 
brilliance.  
James is the active scoring leader in the arena with 30.5 points per game,  
the only visiting player besides Michael Jordan with multiple 50-point 
games.  
Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh each scored 26 points, extending Miami's longest 
 winning streak since winning 12 in a row from Feb. 26-March 19, 2005. The 
Heat  beat the Knicks for the sixth straight time.  
New York's Amare Stoudemire was limited to 24 points on 11-of-28 shooting,  
snapping his franchise-record streak of nine straight 30-point games. He 
grabbed  14 rebounds, and Danilo Gallinari scored 25 points, but the Knicks 
lost their  second straight after an eight-game winning streak.  
"We understand we're not far away but we still have to improve and get  
better," Stoudemire said. "I think playing these guys is a learning lesson for  
us. We've got to learn from these games and get better." 





The Nets have lost nine of 10 after a 98-92 defeat to Toronto. Brook Lopez  
had 20 points and seven rebounds.
 
Mattias Tedenby had the only Devils goal in the Devils' 3-1 loss to  
Nashville. New Jersey had a chance to build a winning streak after snapping a  
five-game losing streak on Wednesday, but that didn't happen.




_New  York_ (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/nyk)  at _Cleveland_ 
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/cle)  
Sat Dec 18, 2010, 7:30 pm EST