Carmelo Anthony hit the 20,000 point milestone, the go-ahead basket with 1:23 left and the game-clinching rebound with .8 seconds left as the Knicks beat the Hornets 96-93 at the Garden.
The Knicks suffered no letdown from their shocking Cleveland upset in moving to 2-1, but nearly blew a 15-point second-quarter lead.
Anthony, who reached the milestone in the first quarter, entered the game three shy of the magic number and stands at 20,025, becoming the 10th active player to hit the mark.
"It's a great milestone to reach, I never thought I'd reach 20,000 points,'' Anthony said to the crowd during the postgame on-court interview. "I used to look at another guys who had it and say, 'Damn, that's a lot of points.' ''
Anthony finished 12-of-22 from the field and got a big hand from Iman Shumpert, who scored 15 points and added four assists.
With the Knicks down three points, Shumpert banged in a left-wing trey to tie the game and Anthony drained a 15-footer over Marvin Williams to put the Knicks ahead 95-93 with 1:23 left, and that's how it ended.
With a chance to seal it, the Knicks were flagged for a 24-second violation as their offense got too isolation-heavy and Anthony was double-teamed and couldn't fire.
That gave Charlotte the ball with 36.6 seconds left down two, but the Hornets were called for a questionable five-second violation as Williams inbounded at the same time referee Kevin Cutler counted to five.
The Knicks didn't take advantage as the set play was botched and Shumpert forced a jumper that bounced off the rim. The Hornets regained possession with 16.6 seconds left, but New York native Kemba Walker, forced a wild shot in the dying seconds after overdribbling. Anthony hauled in the rebound with .8 seconds left, got fouled and sank one of two free throws.
Without a timeout, a long pass was heaved to Lance Stephenson as time expired. Stephenson finished with 14 points and Walker 16 for Charlotte (1-2).
With 3:49 left, Anthony also aided the late-game hold, making a sensational spin move past Stephenson for a layup and 90-89 lead.
The Knicks shot 50 percent in the first quarter on the way to a 29-21 lead. They got up 15 midway through the second quarter after Shumpert drove past Gerald Henderson down the baseline for a stuff. Charlotte looked asleep for the first 18 minutes, playing the second night of a back-to-back.
Shumpert finished with 11 points by halftime, but the Hornets rallied late in the second quarter to close to 52-50 as center Al Jefferson racked up 12 points and Gary Neal hit for a dozen off the bench.
The Hornets lost Michael Kidd-Gilchrist for the night when he fell hard on the court late in the first quarter after battling for a rebound. Kidd-Gilchrist was scheduled to take a CT-scan.
The Hornets took an 80-79 lead after three quarters after the Knicks' defense relaxed and Brooklyn product Lance Stephenson went coast-to-coast for a buzzer-beating layup. In the opening minute of the fourth, Charlotte forward Cody Zeller inexplicably was allowed an easy lane to the basket for an uncontested driving dunk, eliciting a timeout by a disgusted Fisher.
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