Carmelo Leads Knicks Past Hawks

The Atlanta Hawks and New York Knicks played one heck of a game on Sunday night. The game, which was televised on ESPN, went down to the wire, but the Knicks came out on top 106-104.
Carmelo Anthony was on fire all night. He tied the Knicks franchise record with the most three-pointers made in a game with nine. Overall, he went fifteen of 28 from the field to score 42 points. Raymond Felton, who played for the first time in eleven games after sitting out with a broken pinky, had a double-double, scoring twelve points and handing out ten assists. J.R. Smith and Amar'e Stoudemire both scored eighteen points off the bench for the Knicks. The Knicks are now 27-15 on the season.
The Hawks had a three-game winning streak snapped with the loss to the Knicks. At the half, the game was all tied up at 52 a piece. In the third quarter the Hawks fell behind by eight, they came back in the fourth quarter to take the lead for a little bit, but Anthony proved to be too much for them to handle. The Hawks suffered the loss even while shooting a season-high 60 percent from the field.
Jeff Teague led the Hawks with 27 points while making nine of his fifteen shots. Josh Smith was next with 20 points, followed by Al Horford with sixteen, DeShawn Stevenson had fifteen off the bench as he hit four of his six 3-pointers, and Kyle Korver added thirteen points. Anthony Morrow was still out with an injury.
With the loss, the Hawks fell to 25-19. They don't play again till Wednesday, when they come home to Philips Arena to take on the Toronto Raptors at 7:30 p.m. The Raptors are 16-28 on the year and play a game at home on Monday before flying to Atlanta for Wednesday's game.

DeShawn Stevenson gets set to shoot a free-throw, he had fifteen points off the bench in the Hawks 106-104 loss to the New York Knicks on Sunday night.
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