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LOS ANGELES -- Carmelo Anthony was thrilled when several Knicks took turns hitting big shots while they held off the Lakers. He can see New York embracing the teamwork and syncopated speed necessary to run coach Jeff Hornaceks offense effectively.The Lakers had a similar rhythm going, and now theyve lost it.Kristaps Porzingis had 26 points and 12 rebounds, Derrick Rose scored 25 in his return from injury and the Knicks beat Los Angeles 118-112 Sunday night for their sixth win in seven games.Brandon Jennings scored 15 of his season high-tying 19 points in the fourth quarter as the Knicks moved a season-best four games over .500 (14-10) with a dynamic effort in the final minutes, capped by Roses jumper with 19.4 seconds left.As you can see, different guys stepped up at different times, said Anthony, who had 13 points on 4-of-16 shooting and hit a key late jumper. Were just trusting one another and believing in what were doing, in our schemes, defensively and offensively. Guys are feeling confident when they get the ball to make plays for themselves and others. We need that as a team. We need that confidence.Porzingis has been feeling discomfort in his right knee, but the Latvian big man shook it off for another impressive effort that included seven blocked shots, tying his career high. His defense didnt prevent the Lakers from putting up a 37-point fourth quarter, but the Knicks scored enough to hang on.The Lakers had a narrow lead in the fourth quarter before Jennings went off, hitting back-to-back 3-pointers and threading a slick pass to Courtney Lee for a three-point play to put the Knicks up 97-89 with 6:46 left.Its just trust, Jennings said. I just try to bring as much energy to it as I can.Lou Williams scored 24 points in his latest big game off the bench for the sliding Lakers, who lost their sixth straight despite the return of DAngelo Russell and Nick Young.Luol Deng set season highs with five 3-pointers and 22 points, but Los Angeles (10-16) hasnt won in December.FRESH ROSERose went 12 for 16 after missing two games with a back injury, capping the effort with that cool 10-footer after the Lakers got within four. The Knicks have won four straight on the road after a 1-6 start away from Madison Square Garden.Ive been trying to catch a rhythm for like a minute, Rose said. Its slowly coming.NO DThe Lakers solid offense cant overcome a defense that was the NBAs fourth-worst before allowing 118 points to the Knicks.Its embarrassing, and its embarrassing because we have too many good defenders and athletic guys on this team to be this bad on the defensive end, forward Julius Randle said. We can be a lot better, and we will be a lot better. Its just frustrating right now.THEYRE BACKRussell and Young returned to boost the Lakers, who had been without their usual starting backcourt since late November. Russell had missed 12 of the Lakers last 13 games with soreness in his left knee, while Young missed seven of the past nine with a strained calf.Russell had three points on 1-of-8 shooting in 18 minutes, with Lakers coach Luke Walton strictly limiting his playing time. Young was right back to his usual swaggering self, scoring 12 points in the first half and finishing with 15 in 20 similarly restricted minutes.Both expect to play Monday in Sacramento.I felt good, Russell said. Definitely out of rhythm, but it was cool.TIP-INSKnicks: They made their second stop on a five-game road trip that began with a narrow win at Sacramento. ... Knicks President Phil Jackson, the longtime Lakers coach, watched the game by New Yorks bench instead of sitting with his fianc?, Lakers owner Jeanie Buss.Lakers: They are still without injured reserves Tarik Black and Jose Calderon. ... Los Angeles played its 14th game in 24 days, part of a stretch with 18 games in 30 days and no back-to-back days off before next weekend. The Lakers spend the next two weeks on the road before Christmas.UP NEXTKnicks: At the Suns on Tuesday.Lakers: At the Kings on Monday to open a seven-game road trip. Fake NFL Jerseys Online . The formidable trio of Canadian receivers -- individually known as Chris Getzlaf, Rob Bagg and Andy Fantuz -- will share the field at Mosaic Stadium one more time on Sunday. Fake NFL Jerseys Free Shipping . -- New England Revolution goalkeeper Matt Reis is retiring after a 16-year career to become the goalie coach for the Los Angeles Galaxy. https://www.fakenfljerseys.com/ . P.A. 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DO NOT PROCEED WITH THIS PROMOTION IF YOU ARE NOT LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES OR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.1. ELIGIBILITY: Eliminator Challenge (the Promotion) is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia (EXCLUDING PUERTO RICO, OTHER UNITED STATES TERRITORIES, AND FOREIGN TERRITORIES), who are thirteen (13) years or older as of the date of entry, and are registered members of ESPN.com. (Registration is further described below in Section 4.) The following are not eligible for the Promotion: (i) employees and agents of Sponsor and Promoter and their respective parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies, and each of their respective advertising/promotion agencies; and (ii) the immediate family members and/or household members of any of the persons set forth in (i) above. Immediate family members shall mean parents, step-parents, children, step-children, siblings or spouses. 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To access and/or enter the Promotion, log-on to the Eliminator Challenge Frontpage during the Promotion Period and complete your entry by clicking on the Create Entry button.4. ESPN.COM REGISTRATION. To enter the Promotion, you must be a registered member of ESPN.com (or one of Sponsors affiliated websites, e.g., ABC.com, ABCNews.com, DisneyOnline.com and Family.com). Registration is free.a. Not yet a Member. You may register by clicking on the applicable link on the entry page for the Promotion, and following the instructions. You will be asked to provide your e-mail address, name, birth date, gender, country of residence (collectively User Information) and to select a username and password. You will also be asked if you wish to receive promotional emails or offers. You do not need to consent to receive these emails or offers in order to become a member. Even if you consent, you may subsequently opt-out of receiving such emails or offers by clicking on the myESPN link on any ESPN.com Fantasy Game page, then clicking on the Newsletters link and following the instructions.b. Already a Member. If you are already a member (or if you are a member of one of the Sponsors affiliated websites), then you do not need to register again. You may enter the Promotion by logging in on ESPN.com with your current username and password.c. Survey Questions or Promotional Email. You may be asked to answer survey questions or to consent to receive promotional emails or offers. This is optional. You are not required to answer questions or to give consent to receive such emails or offers in order to be eligible to play in the Promotion.d. Password. You are responsible for the secrecy of your password. Sponsor, Promoters and other third parties are not responsible or liable for any actions taken using your password.5. TIMING. Registration for the Promotion begins on Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 3:00pm Eastern Time. The Promotion begins on Thursday, September 8, 2016 and ends on Sunday, January 1, 2017 at 7:59pm (or upon the completion of the last game from that day) (the Promotion Period). For purposes of these official rules (the Official Rules) all times are Eastern Time (ET).6. HOW TO PLAY.a. General. The objective of the Promotion is to correctly select a Winning Pick for one U.S. professional football game each week during the Promotion Period. Each week, an entrant must select one team which he/she believes will be the winner of a scheduled U.S. professional football game being played that week. If, during the first week of the U.S. professional football season, the entrant makes a correct selection (i.e. the team selected does win its game), entrant will be credited with a Winning Pick and will remain in the pool of potential winners. If an entrants pick for that week loses its game, or entrant fails to make a valid selection for a given week, entrant will be credited with a Losing Pick and will no longer be eligible for a prize unless all remaining entrants make Losing Picks in the same week. Entrants will not be able to select any team more than once throughout the Promotion Period. The last remaining eligible entrant, once verified, will be Grand Prize Winner. If more than one entrant goes through the entire U.S. professional football regular season (currently scheduled for seventeen (17) weeks) without making a Losing Pick, or if all remaining entrants make Losing Picks in the same week, a Tiebreaker will be used to determine the Grand Prize Winner and the Second Prize Winner. If there is only one entrant that completes the Promotion without being credited with a Losing Pick AND does not win the Grand Prize because of the Tiebreaker, then that entrant, if eligible, will be the Second Prize Winner. b. Selections. You may enter your selections online by following the instructions in the How to Play section of the game. c. Scoring. You receive one (1) point for each correct winning pick on a valid entry. You do not receive or lose points for incorrect picks. You accumulate points from the date of your first winning pick. You may begin playing after the start of the Promotion but you will not receive any points for the football games you have missed. In the event a scheduled professional football game listed does not occur as scheduled (e.g., a game is cancelled) no points will be awarded. Ties will be broken in accordance with the tie-breaker procedure below.d. Lock-time. The kick-off of the first U.S. professional football game is currently scheduled for 8:30 PM ET on Thursday, September 8, 2016. The kick-off for the last game of the first week of the U.S. professional football season is currently scheduled for 10:20 PM ET on Monday, September 12, 2016. Making a selection before the first game of a given week increases the number of teams available for selection. Entry selections will lock at the scheduled kick-off of each regularly scheduled U.S. professional football game. Entrants must make sure their picks are submitted by the scheduled locktime each week. You will not be able to make selections for games that have already locked. Selections submitted after the deadline are considered invalid, and will not be counted as Winning Picks. Entrants who submit selections after the lock time or do not submit an entry for the week will be credited with a Losing Pick.e. Tie Games. In the event a game should end in a tie after overtime, and is declared a tie by U.S. professional football officials, entrants that had selected teams in the game as their picks for that week in the Promotion will neither be recorded with a Winning Pick or a Losing Pick. All active streaks will continue to the next week.f. Tiebreaker. Entrants participate in the Promotion until an entry outlasts all other entries or the U.S. professional football regular season comes to an end. At the end of the U.S. professional football regular season, if there is more than one eligible entry remaining or if all remaining entries are eliminated in the same week, a tiebreaker will be used to determine the Grand Prize Winner and Second Place Winner.OVERALL TIEBREAKERS: (Entrants will be eliminated at each step, until a winner is determined)Tiebreaker #1 - The entrant who has made the most Winning Picks among the remaining entries will be considered the winner.Tiebreaker #2 - The entrant whose Winning Picks have the largest aggregate total score difference over the course of the season.For example: Week 1: Win 45-14 (31pts) Week 2: Win 31-10 (21) Week 3: Win 17-14 (3) The aggregate total would be 31+21+3 = 55 points. Tiebreaker #3 - The entrant whose date of entry creation was recorded in the system the earliest. Tiebreaker #4 - Random drawing of all remaining entries.7. ENTRY. There is no entry fee required to participate in the Promotion. ONE (1) ENTRY PER PERSON PER UNIQUE ESPN.COM USER ACCOUNT (REGARDLESS OF THE NUMBER OF EMAIL ADDRESSES OR REGISTERED MEMBER ACCOUNTS). Only entries received online in accordance with these Official Rules will be accepted. No other forms of entry - fax, mail, email, phone or other - will be accepted. Entry materials/data that have been tampered with or altered are void. Winners will be determined on or about Monday, January 2, 2017.8. PRIZES. The approximate retail value (ARV) of all prizes is $5,000.00.Sponsor will award one (1) Grand Prize and one (1) 2nd Place Prize. Odds of winning prizes depend on the total number of eligible entries received. Sponsor will also award ten (10) Random Drawing prizes.a. Overal Prizes: One (1) Grand Prize - $3,000 Amazon.com gift card (ARV $3,000.00). One (1) 2nd Place Prize - $1,000 Amazon.com gift card (ARV $1,000.00)Total ARV for Overall Prizes: $4,000.00b. Random Drawing Prizes: Ten (10) $100 Amazon.com gift cards (ARV $1,000.00). At the end of the Promotion period, a drawing will take place to select ten (10) randomly drawn winners. Each point accumulated throughout the Promotion Period counts as one (1) chance in the random drawing. For example, if you receive 10 points you will have 10 chances to win in the random drawing. The random drawing will take place on or about Monday, January 2, 2017.Total ARV for Random Drawing Prizes: $1,000.00c. Prize Restrictions: If a winner is a minor in his/her jurisdiction of primary residence, winners parent/legal guardian must execute all documents and agree to all obligations and undertakings required of the potential winner in these Official Rules, both on behalf of himself/herself and the winning minor. Prize may be awarded in the name of, or to, parent/legal guardian. 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AN ENTRANT IS NOT A WINNER OF ANY PRIZE UNLESS AND UNTIL ENTRANTS ELIGIBILITY AND THE POTENTIAL WINNING ENTRY HAS BEEN VERIFIED AND ENTRANT HAS BEEN NOTIFIED THAT VERIFICATION IS COMPLETE. SPONSOR WILL NOT ACCEPT SCREEN SHOTS, AFFIDAVITS OR OTHER EVIDENCE OF WINNING IN LIEU OF ITS VALIDATION PROCESS. ANY ENTRY THAT OCCURS AFTER THE SYSTEM HAS FAILED FOR ANY REASON MAY BE DEEMED A DEFECTIVE ENTRY AND VOID.Potential winners will be notified via email (or overnight mail) sent within fifteen (15) business days following the end of the Promotion Period. It is the sole responsibility of the entrant to notify the Sponsor during the Promotion Period if his or her e-mail address has changed. To do so, click on the myESPN link on any ESPN.com page fantasy game page, then click on the Account Information link and follow the instructions. 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Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion, to modify, cancel, terminate, and/or suspend the Promotion and to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process, violates these Official Rules, or acts in a disruptive or unsportsmanlike manner. Without limiting the foregoing, Sponsor may lock out an entrant who, in Sponsors sole judgment, has been disqualified, has questionable eligibility or is otherwise ineligible to enter. CAUTION: A PERSON WHO ATTEMPTS DELIBERATELY TO UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS PROMOTION OR TO ALTER OR DAMAGE A WEBSITE MAY BE SUBJECT TO CIVIL AND/OR CRIMINAL PENALTIES AND FINES; AND SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. 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