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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Carmelo Anthony scored 25 points, Amare Stoudemire added 16 points and 11 rebounds, and the New York Knicks dropped the Philadelphia 76ers to 0-13 with a 91-83 victory on Saturday night.Jose Calderon made his season debut for the Knicks, who had lost consecutive games but had an easy time against a team that was every bit as bad as its record for most of the game.The 76ers are the first team to drop their first 13 games since the 2009-10 Nets lost 18 straight during the worst start in NBA history. The Sixers are nearing their franchise-worst start of 0-15 in 1972-73, when they finished 9-73 for the worst 82-game mark in league history.SUNS 106, PACERS 83INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —Gerald Green led all scorers with 23 points and Phoenix remained one of the hottest teams in the NBA after its road win over Indiana.Phoenix (9-5) got its fourth straight win, all on the road during a six-game trip. The Pacers two-game winning streak was snapped. Indiana (5-8) had won four of its previous five.Markieff Morris added 13 for Phoenix, and Goran Dragic had 11. Isaiah Thomas pitched in with 16 points off the bench for the Suns.Indiana was led by Rodney Stuckey, who scored 14 points. Solomon Hill scored 13 and Ian Mahinmi had 12 points and 10 rebounds after playing the final 2 1/2 quarters in place of Roy Hibbert, who left midway through the second quarter with a sprained left ankle.HEAT 99, MAGIC 92ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) —Chris Bosh scored 14 of his season-high 32 points in the fourth quarter, leading Miami over Orlando.Boshs two free throws with 6:45 left pulled the Heat out of a 77-77 tie and started a 14-4 run that put them firmly in charge of their 10th straight win against their intrastate rivals.Nic Vucevic led Orlando with 33 points and 17 rebounds.Mario Chalmers had 24 points and eight assists for the Heat, who shot 52 per cent overall and made 12 of 26 3-pointers. Rookie Shabazz Napier added 12 points.Victor Oladipo scored 12 points for the Magic, and rookie Elfrid Payton had nine points and five steals.RAPTORS 110, CAVALIERS 93CLEVELAND (AP) — Lou Williams scored a career-high 36 points, and Toronto turned an 18-point deficit into a convincing win over Cleveland, handing the Cavaliers their fourth straight loss.The Raptors, who have won four in a row and are off to their best start, trailed 26-8 less than 4 minutes into the game, but showed why they have the best record in the Eastern Conference.Toronto led 56-54 at halftime and took control midway in the third quarter. The Raptors led by as many as 19 points in the fourth.Kevin Love scored 23 points to lead Cleveland. LeBron James, who spent the final 6:20 on the bench, finished with 15 points with 10 assists.WIZARDS 111, BUCKS 100MILWAUKEE (AP) — Paul Pierce scored 25 points and John Wall added 19 points as Washington rallied in the second half to beat Milwaukee.The Wizards, after trailing by as many as 15 in the first half, took control of the game by outscoring the Bucks 19-8 to start the fourth quarter and grabbed a 93-78 lead when Bradley Beal hit a 17-foot jumper with 7:15 remaining.Milwaukee fought back and cut the deficit to 104-97 with 2:13 remaining on a jumper by Ersan IIlasova. But Pierce hit a 19-foot jumper as the shot clock expired to give Washington a 106-97 lead with 1:13 remaining.Wall then stole the inbounds pass and scored on a dunk with 1:10 remaining to put the game away.Bradley Beal added 17 points for the Wizards, who won for the second straight night.Brandon Knight led the Bucks with 27 points, and Giannis Anteokounmpo added 20. Milwaukee lost its second straight game and fell to 7-7 after winning three straight.SPURS 99, NETS 87SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Tony Parker had 22 points, and San Antonio never trailed and topped Brooklyn for its fourth straight victory.San Antonio led by as many as 18 points in winning its 12th straight regular-season home game over the Nets.Deron Williams had 24 points, and Mirza Teletovic had 22 for the Nets (5-8), who lost for the sixth time in seven games.Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green each had 21 points for the defending champion Spurs (8-4).Tim Duncan had seven points, 10 rebounds, seven assists, four blocked shots and three steals in 25 minutes. The Spurs chose to rest Duncan for the remainder of the game after the 38-year-old forward played the first 7 minutes of the second half.ROCKETS 95, MAVERICKS 92HOUSTON (AP) — James Harden scored 32 points, including five down the stretch, to help Houston rally for a win over Dallas.Houston, playing without Dwight Howard (knee injury), ended its two-game skid and snapped the Mavericks six-game winning streak.Dallas led by four with less than a minute remaining before Harden made two free throws. Monta Ellis missed on the other end, and Harden put Houston on top 93-92 when he made a jump shot and the ensuing free throw with 28 seconds left.Harden stole the ball from Ellis, and Trevor Ariza made two more free throws to seal the victory.Dallas had a chance to tie it but Dirk Nowitzki and Ellis each missed 3-pointers in the final seconds.KINGS 113, TIMBERWOLVES 101MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — DeMarcus Cousins had 31 points and 18 rebounds to power Sacramento to a victory over short-handed Minnesota.Cousins hit 11 of 15 shots, and Ben McLemore had 22 points and nine rebounds to help the Kings overcome a sluggish start and improve to 8-5.Andrew Wiggins scored a career-high 29 points and had four steals for the Timberwolves, who were missing four starters and playing the second night of a back-to-back.The Kings outrebounded Minnesota 50-37, taking full advantage of a frontcourt missing Nikola Pekovic to injury, and Thaddeus Young after the death of his mother.PELICANS 106, JAZZ 94SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Anthony Davis had a career-high 43 points and 14 rebounds, Jrue Holiday added 19 points and eight assists, and New Orleans beat Utah.Davis shot 16 for 23 from the field to help the Pelicans earn a split of their four-game western road trip.Gordon Hayward scored 31 points and Trey Burke had a season-high 20 for the Jazz.Utah cut a 19-point third-quarter deficit to 77-72 by the end of the period as Hayward made four free throws over a 20-second span.However, Holiday had a 3-pointer, and Davis had a dunk as the Pelicans used a 10-2 run to take a 13-point lead with 9:28 remaining. Utah closed within single digits one more time, pulling to 99-90 on Burkes jumper with 3:08 left.Rivers and Holiday drove for back-to-back layups to put the game out of reach. Nike Air Force 1 Sale Uk . Rookie Christian Vazquez got his first three major league hits and drove in three runs, while David Ortiz had three RBIs to break open the game in the sixth inning and lead Boston over the Houston Astros 8-3. Nike Air Force 1 Cheap Sale ." The game can be seen live on TSN starting with Monday Night Countdown at 6:30 p.m et/3:30 p.m. pt. The Patriots, who had a bye in Week 10, will look to continue the offensive success they had a week earlier when New England scored 55 points and racked up 610 yards of total offense in a 55-31 drubbing of the Pittsburgh Steelers. http://www.nikeairforce1discountuk.com/. Rajon Rondo had 18 of Bostons season-high 38 assists and the Celtics committed just seven turnovers in a 118-111 win over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday night. Nike Air Force 1 Cheap Online . The 2010 batting champ showed what he can do when hes mostly healthy. Gonzalez homered, doubled and singled in his return to the lineup, and the Colorado Rockies snapped a five-game losing streak with a 13-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night. Nike Air Force 1 Cheap Uk . Off-Season Game Plan examines a team facing some challenging times as GM Bryan Murray tries to put together a roster for next season. Perhaps the first challenge facing Murray is that its expected he will be moving out Jason Spezza, a premier point producer who is about to enter the final year of his contract.SAN FRANCISCO - Imagine if big league boppers rarely dented the Green Monster at Fenway Park. Or hardly ever hit drives onto Waveland Avenue at Wrigley Field. Or never came close to the B&O Warehouse at Camden Yards.OK, now try to picture San Franciscos ballpark without splash shots.Tough to do, right?Those moonshots that plop into McCovey Cove and set off kayak scrambles are surely the signature moments at AT&T Park. They just dont happen too often, though a certain behemoth in black and orange once made it seem that way.Theyd always show Barry Bonds hitting all these home runs into the water, Kansas City great George Brett said this week. I couldnt even wait to get here today to see the place.The Hall of Famer got his first look at the park Thursday when the Royals held a World Series workout. He was surprised by one aspect.Its 309 feet down the right-field line. I didnt know that, he said. I thought it was 330 feet.Still, there arent a ton of balls flying over the 25-foot brick wall, carrying past the 27-foot sidewalk and getting wet.A total of 20 in the last three years, in fact. The Giants hit five this season, opponents hit eight.Funny how a ballpark known for majestic home runs is really one of the most difficult places in the majors to hit any. Right field, not so simple.Its obviously pretty tough if you do the math there, Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford said. All the elements play into it. Its a high wall, the wind kind of blows in off the water and its a little ways out there. Thats what makes it tough.The lit-up Splash Hits number on the wall keeps track of the balls hit by the Giants that land in the water. To date, its 68 — thats in 15 seasons. Visitors have hit 36, including a shot by Washingtons Bryce Harper this month in the NL playoffs.Bonds did it 35 times.Barry made it look pretty easy compared to everybody else, Crawford said.Crawford did OK this year, sending two shots into the water. Among his current Giants teammates, Pablo Sandoval is the leader with seven.The Royals held battinng practice at AT&T Park on Thursday, a day before they beat San Francisco 3-2 to lead the Series 2-1.ddddddddddddNaturally, Kansas Citys left-handed hitters tried to cause a ripple during the workout.It seems a little closer. On TV you can make anything look like how you want it to look, third baseman Mike Moustakas said.I caught a couple out in front that I managed to hit out. I dont know if they went in the Cove or not. Thats a pretty deep shot out there, he said.Opened in 2000 as Pacific Bell Park, and mostly called Pac Bell before it became SBC Park and later AT&T Park, the stadium appeared to be a homer haven at the outset.In the very first game, Kevin Elster returned after taking a year off from baseball and hit three homers for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Bonds and two teammates also connected for the Giants that afternoon.Bonds hit 49 home runs that season, then launched a record 73 in 2001. In those two seasons combined, he put 15 pokes in the water.By then, the ballpark had earned a reputation. There were plenty of other features — the giant Coke bottle, the humongous glove, the views of the Bay Bridge — but the splash hits became synonymous with the new stadium.Bonds last season was 2007, the year the All-Star game was held in San Francisco. He opted out of the Home Run Derby, but lefty sluggers Ryan Howard, Prince Fielder and Justin Morneau took part. No one connected for a splash shot.In the seven seasons since Bonds left, there have been a combined 44 get-wet drives.Its not easy. Its definitely not easy. He made it look easy, but its not easy, said Kansas Citys Raul Ibanez, whos hit 305 career home runs.He would prefer the Royals look to spray the ball this weekend, rather than trying to splash it.You probably shouldnt ever think about hitting a ball down the right-field line as a hitter. Theres not a lot of benefit for you. It opens you up to all kinds of stuff, he said. Believe me, Ive done it enough. It doesnt work.___AP Sports Writer Josh Dubow contributed to this report. ' ' '