Heat shackled Lin with a win 102-88

Eastern Conference Contenders, New York Knicks and Miami Heat just dueled it out once again. 

    The much anticipated game for Jeremy Lin to prove his game against the 3 headed monster lead by Lebron James, Dwayne Wade and Cris Bosh turned into a walk in the park for the Heat as they rolled to a 102-88 win.

Starting from the tip-off, Lin was shackled by sticky defense from Mario Chalmers and Norris Cole which resulted to a 8 points and 8 turnovers stats. Lin who was averaging around  23.9 points and 9.2 assists  on hist last 11 games for the knicks was obviously forced to commit some bad shots and turnovers. 

   Chris Bosh scored 25 points, Dwyane Wade added 22 and LeBron James finished with 20 points, nine rebounds and eight assists for Miami, which will go into the All-Star break with the NBA’s best record (27-7).

    Carmelo Anthony scored 19 points and grabbed 7 rebounds but had 5 swatted shots mainly by Joel Athony, Amare Stoudemire scored 13 , JR Smith 14 and Steve Novak  with 12 on 4-5 shooting from the 3point area.

 Amare Stoudemire has been averaging a season low 17.6  points and 8.1 rebounds after returning from inactive list.

                              Watch here the Game Highlights

Lin and the Knicks trounced Atlanta Hawks

    When they play together its hard to stop them, this was observed by some of the sports analyst as the New York Knicks outclassed the Atlanta Hawks 99-82 with some balance scoring from their stars. Jeremy Lin lead the charged for the jam-packed knicks with 17 points, 9 assist , 2 steals with only 4 turnover. Linsanity got some helped this time with 7 of them at least scoring beyond 7 points. 

    The 6 foot 10 forward from Marquette lead the supporting cast with 17 points upon converting 5-10 from the 3 point region . Carmelo Anthony scored 15 points, grabbed 4 rebounds and dished 3 assist for his 2nd game after being activated from injury. Amare Stoudemire scored a season low 7 points but grabbed the team high 10 rebounds on 24 minutes of play. 

   Jeff Teague scored a season high 18 points to set the paced for Atlant which  dropped to 19-14 win-loss card. Joe Johnson the all-star guard of Atlanta hawks was not able to play after suffering from  tendinitis in his left knee

                                                   Watch here the first quarter highlights

Here's the Boxscore via Yahoo Sports

Atlanta

Starters	Pos	Min	FG	3Pt	FT	+/-	Off	Reb	Ast	TO	Stl	BS	BA	PF	Pts
W. Green(notes)	G	30:54	7-16	1-5	1-1	-13	0	4	4	2	1	0	0	1	16
J. Teague(notes)	G	29:01	7-12	2-5	2-4	-8	0	1	0	3	3	1	1	0	18
Z. Pachulia(notes)	C	21:46	1-4	0-0	0-0	-6	3	4	2	1	2	0	0	3	2
J. Smith(notes)	F	34:14	5-13	0-2	3-4	-25	4	7	3	4	4	1	0	3	13
M. Williams(notes)	F	26:48	0-6	0-1	0-0	-2	1	4	1	0	1	0	1	3	0

Bench	Min	FG	3Pt	FT	+/-	Off	Reb	Ast	TO	Stl	BS	BA	PF	Pts
Totals		32-81	8-29	10-18		12	40	16	24	14	2	3	23	82
Percentages		.395	.276	.556		Team Rebounds: 11
J. Pargo(notes)	18:59	2-8	1-6	1-2	-9	0	1	1	4	1	0	0	3	6
I. Johnson(notes)	16:59	1-5	0-1	0-0	-3	2	8	2	5	1	0	0	3	2
V. Radmanovic(notes)	15:47	3-5	1-3	0-1	+3	1	5	1	0	0	0	0	1	7
K. Hinrich(notes)	15:00	1-2	1-2	2-3	-5	1	2	0	3	1	0	0	3	5
T. McGrady(notes)	14:45	3-5	0-0	0-0	-21	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	6
J. Stackhouse(notes)	12:00	2-5	2-4	1-3	+3	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	7
E. Dampier(notes)	3:47	0-0	0-0	0-0	+1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
J. Collins(notes)	DNP - Sprained Left Elbow
A. Horford(notes)	DNP - Inactive
J. Johnson(notes)	DNP - Inactive

New York

Starters	Pos	Min	FG	3Pt	FT	+/-	Off	Reb	Ast	TO	Stl	BS	BA	PF	Pts
L. Fields(notes)	G	33:05	7-12	0-1	2-3	-1	2	7	1	2	1	1	0	3	16
J. Lin(notes)	G	32:28	6-11	1-2	4-4	+9	1	2	9	4	2	0	0	3	17
T. Chandler(notes)	C	33:44	3-4	0-0	1-4	+15	2	8	1	4	0	0	0	2	7
C. Anthony(notes)	F	27:14	7-16	1-2	0-0	+7	3	4	3	2	2	1	0	1	15
A. Stoudemire(notes)	F	24:29	3-8	0-0	1-1	+9	1	10	0	1	0	1	0	2	7

Bench	Min	FG	3Pt	FT	+/-	Off	Reb	Ast	TO	Stl	BS	BA	PF	Pts
Totals		38-80	8-22	15-24		14	47	23	21	15	3	2	16	99
Percentages		.475	.364	.625		Team Rebounds: 10
J. Jeffries(notes)	26:02	2-6	0-1	3-4	+11	3	8	2	0	1	0	1	1	7
J.R. Smith(notes)	25:16	4-8	1-4	3-6	+13	1	5	1	2	5	0	0	1	12
S. Novak(notes)	22:10	6-12	5-10	0-0	+14	1	2	0	1	2	0	0	1	17
B. Davis(notes)	13:56	0-3	0-2	1-2	+6	0	1	6	5	2	0	1	2	1
J. Jordan(notes)	1:36	0-0	0-0	0-0	+2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
M. Bibby(notes)	DNP - Coach's Decision
T. Douglas(notes)	DNP - Coach's Decision
J. Harrellson(notes)	DNP - Inactive
I. Shumpert(notes)	DNP - Inactive
B. Walker(notes)	DNP - Inactive