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One more time, there was Steph Curry, playing the part of the Ghost of Draft Day Past, reminding the Knicks of their greatest loss of the first two decades of the millennium: Finishing eighth in the 2009 lottery, when seventh might have altered their destiny forever. 

Once more, there was Curry — 12 wins now in 13 career trips to the Garden — splashing 3s and finding cutting teammates and electrifying the Garden in that rarefied way that only the great ones do. This time it was 28 points and nine assists and seven rebounds, it was five 3s, a few of them from the 718 area code. 

This time it was more than enough to send the Knicks on their merry way to the West Coast with a 114-102 defeat. They won’t see the Garden again until St. Patrick’s Day. Curry made sure the flight to L.A. will feel a little extra long, especially with a killer back-to-back against the Lakers and Clippers awaiting them. 

“It doesn’t take much for him to get going,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said. “He never stops. The way he moves, he draws a lot of attention on him, and we probably could have communicated better than we did.”