By Joshua Newman, for NBA.com THE FACTS: Coming off their first loss under interim head coach Mike Woodson on Friday evening, the New York Knicks quickly regained the momentum of the last week on Saturday evening. Amar’e Stoudemire led four players in double figures with a team-high 17 points on 7-for-10 shooting from the floor as the Knicks have now won six of seven games under Woodson thanks to a 101-79 victory over the Detroit Pistons. Carmelo Anthony and Tyson Chandler each scored 15 points, while Jeremy Lin added 13 in the win. Chandler also hauled in a game-high 17 rebounds to tie his season-high. New York native Ben Gordonscored a game-high 20 to pace the Pistons. The win took an ominous tone in the fourth quarter when Stoudemire went back to the locker room with a sore lower back. QUOTABLE: “It just got a little tight, so we took precautionary measures. It was just muscular tightness. We always keep an eye on it, make sure it’s always loose and if there’s tightness, I let the trainers know.”
— Stoudemire on his back, which hampered him during the Knicks’ sweep out of the first round of the playoffs last season at the hands of the Boston Celtics. Click here for the full notebook from Josh Newman.
