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Lin does it again with game-winner

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Even after his amazing week, this one took Linsanity to a whole new level. In Toronto on Tuesday, it was Lin for the win.

Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with less than a second to play to cap his finishing flurry of six straight points, and New York rallied to beat the Raptors 90-87, extending its winning streak to six games.

“I’m just glad it went like this so we can calm the Linsanity down,” cracked Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni.

No chance of that. The NBA’s first American-Taiwanese player, Lin scored 27 points and added a career-high 11 assists in his first game since being named Eastern Conference player of the week.

While he’s the one standing in the spotlight, Lin said sharing success with his teammates is as big a reward.

“It’s not because of me, it’s because we’re coming together as a team,” said Lin, who made just his fifth start. “We started making these steps earlier, but we were still losing close games, and so obviously it wasn’t fun. But when you win, that solves a lot of problems.”

The season-high crowd of 20,092 roared as Lin drained a pull-up jumper from the top with half a second to play, giving the Knicks their first lead since the first quarter.

Amare Stoudemire returned from a four-game absence after the death of his brother to score 21 points.

via Spurs Nation » Lin does it again with game-winner.