The Cleveland Cavaliers and the NY Knicks are playing live on the NBA schedule on Sunday night and the matchup from MSG comes as the team has won eight games in a row and they are a few games out of the final playoff spot in the east and they are matching up with one of the worst teams in the conference in the Cavs and the matchups is streaming from the NBA.com League Pass.
The team is looking to make the playoffs and this comes after Phil Jackson was hired and while this has been a nice streak, Atlanta has played good enough to stay ahead in the standings and now it will be a fight to the finish. The Knicks made it into the playoffs last season as the division winners with over 50 wins on their record, but this season has been mostly a disaster and while they are turning things around now, it might be too little too late to get into the postseason. The team comes in after a one point win against the Sixers and they play against the Lakers on the road after the Cavs and that is a chance for another nice streak moving along.
The team got 22 points from Amare Stoudemire and 10 points from Tyson Chandler and now they are 29-40 heading into the back stretch of the season and Carmelo Anthony has been doing all he can to keep the team in the race. The team is allowing just under 100 points per game and scoring about that much as well and now they face off against two of the worst teams in the league and that could give them the streak they need to catch the Hawks, who lost to the Toronto Raptors on the schedule already.
The Cavs come into the game after losing four in a row and they got 26 points from Dion Waiters against the Rockets in a loss against Houston and they will play against the Raptors after playing the Knicks on Sunday and that game will be on Tuesday. The team is averaging 97 points per game and allowing 101 and they are ranked 11th in the league in assists and they are just 26-44 this season. The Luol Deng trade did not work out and now the team is also dealing with an injury to Kyrie Irving that could end up keeping him out for the rest of the season.
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