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Backup Nick Patti essentially played the fourth quarter and overtime on one leg, limping noticeably on every play after absorbing a sack early in the final quarte.

Pacers: Sabonis had 15 points and seven rebounds in the second quarte.

“They made a run, we kept our composure, and I thought in that third quarte we really established our defense and took off from there,” Lue said.

They surpassed the 102.7 points per game the Knicks had been allowing with their first basket of the final quarte.

They had to rally from 17 down in the fourth quarte r to take the opener at Detroit and trailed by 16 in the fourth two weeks later at Atlanta before squeezing past the Falcons.