DALLAS _ Facing the Knicks for the first time since they traded him, Kristaps Porzingis tried to say this was just another game, that he was beyond it all.
But from the first shot he took Friday night _ a three-point field goal that slipped cleanly through the net _ it was clear that he was out to make a point. And he didn't stop until he had 28 of them.
But what Porzingis could not get was a win. The Knicks put together their best performance of the season, escaping with a 106-102 win over the Mavericks at American Airlines Center.
