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Originally Posted by espn.com
NEW YORK (AP) -- David Lee tipped in a long inbounds pass as time expired in the second overtime, giving the exhausted New York Knicks a 111-109 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats on Wednesday night.
Still missing three suspended players after last Saturday's brawl with the Nuggets and playing without injured starters Steve Francis and Quentin Richardson, the Knicks were forced into overtime for the second time in three nights. They played only eight players, just as they did Monday when they came from 16 points down to beat Utah 97-96 in overtime.
This time, New York erased a 19-point deficit, grinding out the win after managing just three field goals in the fourth quarter.
Channing Frye matched a career high with 30 points and Eddy Curry had 29 for the Knicks, who kept all five starters on the floor for at least 47 minutes. Starting guards Stephon Marbury and Jamal Crawford each played 54 minutes.
The Bobcats scored the first five points of the second overtime, going up 107-102 on Gerald Wallace's three-point play with 3:32 remaining. The Knicks battled back to tie it at 109 on a three-point play by Curry with 1:30 to play.
It stayed tied after the Bobcats turned it over and the Knicks recovered and called time with 0.1 left. The only way to score in that situation is a tip -- and that's exactly what the Knicks got.
Crawford threw a pass from the sideline over the rim and Lee leaped with his right hand -- his non-shooting one -- and guided the ball into the hoop for New York's second buzzer-beating bucket of the week.
Marbury made a layup to beat the Jazz on Monday night.
Wallace scored 28 points and Primoz Brezec had 21 before fouling out for the Bobcats.
Charlotte scored the first four points of the first overtime before Frye answered with consecutive jumpers. The Bobcats were up one after Emeka Okafor's three-point play with 1:10 left before Marbury hit a free throw to tie it. Raymond Felton and Crawford both missed in the closing seconds.
The Knicks led by seven after three, but were only 3-of-14 for a season-worst nine points in the fourth quarter. Charlotte came back to take a 95-93 lead on Wallace's basket with 57 seconds remaining, but Frye tied it 18 seconds later. Misses by Wallace and Crawford forced the extra period.
A quick 11-2 surge by New York after halftime cut Charlotte's lead to 65-63 with 8 1/2 minutes left in the third quarter. The Bobcats seemed to have righted themselves, pushing the advantage to 77-70 on Wallace's 3-pointer with 4:50 remaining, but the Knicks held them without another field goal while outscoring them 16-2 to close the period.
Curry's alley-oop dunk triggered a 13-0 run, and the Knicks had an 83-77 lead after Frye's dunk with 1:14 to go. A pair of free throws by Matt Carroll ended Charlotte's 4-minute scoreless drought before Crawford's 3-pointer just before the buzzer made it 86-79 heading to the fourth.
Charlotte shot 58 percent in the first quarter to take a 35-28 lead, then pushed it to 12 with the first five points in the second. The Bobcats seemed to be toying with the Knicks later in the period, finding Wallace down the floor with lob passes on three straight possessions to increase their advantage to 62-43 with 2:33 left in the half.
The Bobcats led 63-52 after shooting 56.5 percent in the first half.
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Frye scored 30 points and got 6 Reb's
Lee scored 10 points and got 19 Reb's
Curry scored 29 points and got 9 Reb's
Crawford scored 25 points and got 9 assists
Marbury scored 10 points and got 9 assists
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