20,000 points. What a milestone. Carmelo Anthony has reached this milestone and is on an exclusive list with 40 other players.
Melo is sixth-youngest player to score 20,000 points in NBA history according to Elias, behind LeBron, Kobe, Wilt, MJ and Oscar Robertson
— NBA Courtside (@NBACourtside_) November 3, 2014
https://youtu.be/SfS1F836oBA
Now that happened very early in the game. As well as the 15 point lead the Knicks once had in the first half. The lead at half time was 52-50 in favor of New York.
Carmelo Anthony scored 28 points, including the go-ahead jumper with 1:23 remaining, and the New York Knicks beat the Charlotte Hornets 96-93. Iman Shumpert added 15 points and 4 assists. Amar’e Stoudemire had a double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds while coming off the bench for the now 2-1 Knicks, who won their second straight.
Al Jefferson had 21 points with 4 boards and Gary Neal added 17 points coming off the bench for the current 1-2 Charlotte Hornets, who lost their second straight. Both losses, Point Guard Kemba Walker had a chance to tie it or win it after he did both of those things in the first game this year.
Charlotte’s guard Michael Kidd-Gilchrist fell weird late in the first quarter and it made quite the thud. He did not return to the game. Check out the video below.
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist is getting a CT scan after this nasty fall. (Via @NBACourtside_ ) https://t.co/FpYe96uE6x https://t.co/mRHnx1GRAY
— SB Nation NBA (@SBNationNBA) November 3, 2014
According to the team’s spokesman, Kidd-Gilchrist was taken to a New York City area hospital to undergo a CT scan.
Charlotte’s New York City Product, Kemba Walker, scored on a reverse lay-up to extend the Hornets’ lead to 93-90 ith 2:49 remaining in the fourth quarter. After a turnover by another member of the Hornets that is from New York as well, Lance Stephenson, Knicks backup point guard Pablo Prigioni found an open Shumpert, who hit a 3-pointer with 2:06 left, to even the game 93-all.
Walker then missed a layup with 1:42, setting up Anthony’s 15-foot jumper gave the Knicks the lead for good, 95-93. And Melo ends a historic night on a postitive note.
Full game Highlights
https://youtu.be/Qbr_D9EUJ4w
