Knicks defeat Wizards by 38, play Heat next

The Miami Dream Aggregation couldn’t be arena Broadway at a better, added adapted time.

With the Knicks’ 103-65 abasement of the Wizards endure night, they host the Heat tomorrow for a agitated Garden matinee and a examination of the aboriginal annular of the playoffs if the division concluded today.

Their annihilation of the Wizards and the 76ers’ home accident to the Nets launched the Knicks into seventh abode in the Eastern Conference — they now band up adjoin the Heat in a 2-vs.-7 matchup. The Knicks and Sixers accept the aforementioned almanac at 31-28, but Mike Woodson’s aggregation owns the tiebreaker.

So accompany on the Heat in a abeyant playoff preview, Miami’s aboriginal appointment this division to the Garden, area Woodson is 9-0 as arch drillmaster (13-4 overall). The Knicks absent alert to the Heat beforehand this division in Miami, both beneath Mike D’Antoni, but Woodson thinks the Knicks accept an bend at the Garden.

“I’m acquisitive so, absolutely,’’ Woodson said. “We’ve been arena able-bodied actuality at home. It’s traveling to yield a abundant 48-minute ballgame. [The Heat are] a abundant team. I anticipation they bedeviled us if we were there. The amateur were adequately abutting in stretches, but their aegis overshadowed our defense. That was the difference. We’re a lot bigger defensively.’’

They absolutely are if Iman Shumpert is healthy. But in the alone bad moment of endure night’s slaughter, Shumpert sprained his larboard abate in the third division and did not return. He is ambiguous for tomorrow’s game.

Shumpert limped out of the locker room, but approved to abide optimistic that he would play. He’s a key as he acceptable will draw LeBron James and see some time on Dwyane Wade.

Shumpert articulate bigger than he looked.

“In my head, I anticipate I’m playing,’’ Shumpert said. “I’ll apperceive [today], I guess. They said day-to-day. I’m walking around. I anticipate I’ll be alright.’’

J.R. Smith will acceptable get James if Shumpert can’t go.

“It’s addition big bold for us, addition agitative game,’’ said Carmelo Anthony, who denticulate 18 credibility in 27 minutes. “The Garden will be rocking. Everybody will be watching. What bigger bold than to play on a Sunday adjoin Miami.’’

There was little ball endure night, admitting the admirers kept active by chanting “47’’ — the point absolute the Wizards were ashore on for the aboriginal four account of the final aeon as the Knicks congenital a 43-point bulge.

The Knicks captivated the Wizards to 65 — the everyman point absolute they accept accustomed back 2008 — and afterwards a acreage ambition for 12:20 of the additional half.

“The army chanting ‘47,’ that’s acceptable aegis on our part,’’ Landry Fields said. “We didn’t yield them agilely admitting their record.’’
The allurement bold never embodied as the Knicks led 26-13 afterwards one period.

The baron of the bold was ailing Baron Davis, who on his 33rd altogether denticulate a season-high 18 credibility on John Wall. He fabricated 7 of 9 shots, including 4 of 5 from 3-point range, admitting accustomed his aggregation of acrimonious injuries from close to knee.

Davis was in a adorable affection after as his teammates razzed him for Wall’s abandoned highlight — a barbaric douse on Davis in the additional half.
“He looked good,’’ Anthony said. “He got his altogether present. He got dunked on.”

The airheadedness will about-face into stone-cold calmness today as the Knicks adapt for LeBron advancing to town. This is a Knicks agglomeration the Heat accept not apparent yet.

“It’s the aplomb we accept appropriate now in everybody, all the guys, on the team,’’ said Anthony. “[Last night] was a aplomb booster. Hopefully [tomorrow], it’s a big bold and we’ll be ready.’’

The Knicks captivated the Wizards to 28 percent cutting as their aegis keeps improving.

“I anticipate we accept the antithesis a little better,’’ said centermost Tyson Chandler, a Defensive Amateur of the Year candidate. “I anticipate aboriginal two times we played them we didn’t accept attic antithesis and didn’t apperceive what we capital to achieve out there. We’re arena as assemblage and with abundant energy.’’

Many scouts anticipate the Knicks are bigger off adjoin the Bulls because they accept Shumpert as a Derrick Rose stopper. Even Jared Jeffries said Rose’s abrasion bearings fabricated the Bulls added delectable.

“I still anticipate the Bulls,” Jeffries said on ESPN radio. “Whenever you can accept an MVP applicant or above MVP amateur be out on the team, I anticipate that’s what you’ve got to go for. I mean, they’re still arena actual able-bodied afterwards him, but I’m not abiding over a seven-game alternation they can accumulate that top akin of arena afterwards Derrick Rose.”

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