<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">NEW YORK (AP) -- Jamal Crawford scored 28 points, and the New York Knicks shook off their numbers problem again to beat the Chicago Bulls 103-92 Friday night for their season-high third straight victory. Eddy Curry, also a former Bulls player, added 20 points as the Knicks won three in a row for the first time since April and snapped Chicago's five-game winning streak. Stephon Marbury scored 19 before walking off the floor to a loud ovation in the final minute. Still missing injured starters Steve Francis and Quentin Richardson along with the suspended Nate Robinson, Jared Jeffries and Mardy Collins, the Knicks used nine players after going with eight in their last two games, a pair of overtime victories over Utah and Charlotte. And they needed everybody they could find because of foul trouble to starting forwards Channing Frye and David Lee. Knicks coach Isiah Thomas even had to play reserve centers Jerome James and Kelvin Cato at the same time -- and James even provided a brief spark in the second quarter.</div> Link With the Nets losing to the Lakers, it pulls the Knicks 0.5 back from the Atlantic division lead. Awkward how it's easier to win the division, than grabbing the 8th seed in the East.
