In the opposite trends: the Knicks are not stopping, again signs of a crisis with the Lakers - voila! sport. The hot Knicks recorded their eighth consecutive victory and climbed to third place in the Eastern Conference, the Lakers dropped to a negative balance with another weak defensive game and more rumblings around Darwin Hamm.
Only five games were played tonight (between Tuesday and Wednesday) in the NBA, but even in a relatively poor round, quite a few stories and headlines accumulated. Tonight's games: Atlanta (27:20) - L.A. Lakers (25:24) 122:138 Boston (11:37) - Indiana (21:27) 124:129 New York (17:31) - Utah ( 25: 24) 103:118 Chicago (26:22) - Toronto (30:17) 118:107 Golden State (24:19) - Philadelphia (16:29)