Ending at Nine: Knicks Upset Cavaliers

The NBA saw two teams ended their streaks at NINE.

The New York Knicks ended their nine-game losing streak with a 96-94 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, ending LeBron's boys' winning streak to... You guessed it...

Nine.

Before the game, New York Knicks head coach, Larry Brown, was seeing his coaching stint in New York as one of his difficult years in the league. He even addressed the team as a group of players who doesn't have that desire to compete anymore.

In the end, it was Cleveland's Brown, head coach Mike Brown, who questioned his team's desire to play.

''I was disappointed in our effort,'' Mike Brown said.

''I thought that our guys felt that they could show up in this building and win the ballgame whenever they wanted to. We didn't take care of the basketball, we didn't really share the basketball. We weren't aggressive attacking until late in the game and we didn't do a good job defending,'' Brown confessed.

''They beat us from top to bottom, including myself and my whole staff and all the way down to our equipment guy,'' the dejected Mike Brown added.

As for Larry Brown, he couldn't be any happier for Jamal Crawford. Crawford led the Knicks attack with a game-high 37 points, finally giving the struggling New York franchise something to smile about.

To say that the Knicks are having quite a bad season is an understatement. Steve Francis, acquired from Orlando, couldn't be anymore upset than he already is. The man called as, ''the Franchise'' in his better days with Houston talked about the team's recent debacle this season.

''Besides my mom passing away when I was 18, this is top three, definitely, just because this is my livelihood,'' Steve Francis said.

''Basketball is what I do. To be able to come out here and not being able to help this Knicks organization win is tough. I think a lot of the players don't realize that you only have one basketball career and it doesn't last as long as you think. The money might be there, but actually being out there on the court, that (stuff) doesn't last. And until people realize that and realize that you have to help each other and not be so selfish and worry about how many points you score, we're going to be stuck in the same position, same place,'' Francis said.

At least for one night, Steve Francis and the rest of the New York Knicks celebrated a win in the NBA.

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