"Linsanity" was in abounding force Friday in Madison Square Garden if Lin connected his absurd acceleration from obscurity, cloudburst in a career-high 38 credibility forth with seven assists and four rebounds, as New York downed Kobe Bryant and Los Angeles Lakers, 92-85.
Iman Shumpert added 12 credibility and Jared Jeffries denticulate 11 for the Knicks, who defeated the Lakers for the aboriginal time aback January 30, 2007, catastrophe a nine- bold accident band to Los Angeles.
Lin was authoritative just his third career alpha for the undermanned Knicks, who won their fourth beeline challenge admitting accepting afterwards stars Amare Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony.
Lin, an undrafted Harvard product, is averaging a amazing 28.5 credibility and 8.0 assists during New York's four-game run and the 114 absolute credibility he has denticulate over that amount are six added than he had in his 38 antecedent NBA amateur with Golden State and the Knicks.
"The alone affair we accustomed tonight was accepting four in a row," said Lin about his contempo success. "I'm not absolutely too afraid appropriate now about proving annihilation to anybody. I anticipate as a aggregation we're just growing and we're aggravating to body on this momentum. I anticipate that's what anybody is affairs into appropriate now and that's why we're acceptable added dangerous."
Anthony will abide on the sidelines tonight with a artificial appropriate groin, while Stoudemire isn't accepted aback from afflicted the afterlife of his brother, until next week.
The Wolves, meanwhile, appear in afterwards bottomward two beeline contests, including Friday's 104-97 setback to Dallas at Target Center. Kevin Love alternate from a two-game abeyance for blame Houston's Luis Scola in that one and accomplished with 32 credibility and 12 rebounds.
"They absolutely capital this one tonight," said Love. "We waited too continued to go on our run. That aching us."
Michael Beasley added 20 credibility while amateur point bouncer Ricky Rubio had 10 credibility and eight assists.
New York has absent six of seven to the Wolves in the Twin Cities.
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