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Chris Rock is at the game. I thought he was a Knicks fan? Apparently they let anyone in this place.

LeBron James and the Miami Heat made their Brooklyn debut Wednesday, beating the Nets 106-85 in the nationally televised game.

After blowing a 14-point lead in a loss to the reigning NBA champion Miami Heat on Saturday, the Nets will play host to the last year's second-best team tonight.

In addition to a thoroughly motivated Heat team, the Knicks will face the ghosts of their recent past tonight: "I just don't want to look at that fire extinguisher at all," Amare Stoudemire said.

It's true that the Knicks have been playing their best non-Linsanity basketball of the season the past three weeks (give or take a Cleveland stinker). But do they really stand a chance against the big guns from South Beach?

Dwyane Wade got dressed up in his finest suit to go sock shopping in Soho Sunday, and ended up playing a game of pick-up basketball with some unsuspecting children.

"I can't remember another game where it was hard to just take dribbles," Lin said. “It’s hard to be Peter Pan every day. They were geeked up for him," said Coach Mike D'Antoni.

"The tooth fairy put that under the pillow,” Heat star Dwayne Wade said about Jeremy Lin's sudden rise to superstardom. “The Knicks woke up to that.”

Noah apologized today for "saying something" to the heckling Miami fan, telling reporters "I got caught up…I don't mean no disrespect to anybody."

Behind some timely 3-point shooting and a 14-point advantage in the fourth