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Lakers' Jackson wins Duel with Knicks
(AP)
Updated: 2005-11-17 14:18
LOS ANGELES - Phil Jackson still has it over Larry Brown. Kobe Bryant scored
a season-high 42 points and the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the New York Knicks
97-92 Wednesday night, snapping a three-game losing skid.
Los Angeles Lakers
Kobe Bryant (R) drives past New York Knicks Trevor Ariza during the third
quarter of NBA action in Los Angeles November 16, 2005.
[Reuters] | Channing Frye
led the Knicks with 21 points, the second time the rookie has done so in three
nights. Eddy Curry added 17 points.
Stephon Marbury was held to a season-low four points — 12 below his average,
and had 10 assists.
The latest meeting between two of the NBA's greatest coaches was hardly
vintage. Both of their clubs are struggling to regain elite status, something
that once was a given.
Jackson improved to 26-13 in head-to-head games against Brown, whose
Philadelphia team lost to Jackson's Lakers in the 2001 NBA Finals. Brown's
Detroit Pistons eliminated the Lakers in the 2004 Finals.
The Knicks made a pitch to Jackson for their coaching vacancy last summer
before he decided on a second stint with Bryant and a cast of lesser knowns.
Jackson played on the Knicks' 1973 NBA championship team.
So Brown took the New York job, and got off to an 0-5 start before the Knicks
won at Sacramento and Utah.
That modest streak came to a halt against the Lakers, who are still finding
their way with Bryant as the sole team leader.
He proved a one-man show yet again, the third time this season he's topped 37
points. He took a whopping 36 shots, hitting 15, and making 12-of-14 free
throws.
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