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Noel entered protocols Dec. If he's unable to suit up Wednesday, Mitchell Robinson and Taj Gibson are expected to handle the majority of the center minutes once again. Walker knee is listed as questionable for Wednesday's contest against the Mavericks.

Walker has missed six straight games due to left knee soreness, but he has a chance to return Wednesday. However, if he misses a seventh consecutive game, Alec Burks and Immanuel Quickley will likely continue to see increased usage off the bench.

McBride was assigned to the Westchester Knicks on Tuesday. McBride has played just three minutes in each of his last three NBA contests, but he's expected to get extended run during his time in the G League. Sims has spent most of the season as a reserve for the NBA squad, but he's expected to get extended run during his stint in the G League. Atlanta Hawks State Farm Arena. Game Preview.

Watch on. Full Standings. Schedule Regular season vs. Tue, Jan 4. Thu, Jan 6. Sat, Jan 8. Mon, Jan Wed, Jan Sat, Jan Tue, Jan Thu, Jan Sun, Jan Full Schedule. Knicks vs. Mavericks vs. Rotowire Jan 13, See More See Less. The reason he missed the first game was he became a father. If he does come back, I think he will be inserted into the starting lineup and the Knicks will go with more of a traditional center.

And Mitchell Robinson will slide over to the backup center. Or he could still start Mitchell Robinson and Taj Gibson as the backup. So, that will be the big adjustment.

Defensively, Thibodeau is going to look back at the tape against the Celtics and not be very happy. They gave up a lot of easy buckets. Jaylen Brown was killing them.

RJ Barrett did a good job against Jayson Tatum, but other than that, I think they struggled defensively. I think Thibodeau is really going to hammer that home for this game coming up against the Magic. Skip to main content. Facebook Twitter. Magic , teamnews. Related Content Magic. Wizards Postgame: Cole Anthony.

It is certainly playing like one. New York has slipped from fourth in defense last season to 19th after Saturday's loss, and the offense improving from 22nd last year to 15th this season hasn't been enough to make up for that slippage.

And as Randle, Thibodeau and Knicks forward R. Thibs is a great defensive mind, so it's really just up to us to bring that intensity and that urgency to play defense and get stops. We just gotta find it. That's it. It's players, coaches, everybody. It comes from maximum effort and maximum concentration. That's where it comes from. So we've got to do those two things. The only magic that happened on the court inside Madison Square Garden Saturday afternoon came from the Nuggets -- specifically, center Nikola Jokic.

While his two co-stars in Denver remain out with long-term injuries -- Michael Porter Jr. He looked every bit the part of being the NBA's reigning Most Valuable Player -- a performance he mused was benefited, in part, by attending Meadowlands Racetrack Friday night to take in some harness racing. Maybe the front office or someone needs to check that out. While Denver sorts out future tracks for Jokic to potentially visit, the Knicks were left to pick up the pieces after yet another loss.

Although there were positives to take away from Tuesday's loss in Brooklyn, and even from Thursday's big comeback before losing here to the Chicago Bulls , there was nothing positive to take away from this one. Jokic's presence was also a reminder of something Randle readily admitted: that the Knicks cannot win games by relying on one player, like Denver can.

Instead, they need to play as a collective unit, at both ends of the court. We're not the superstars, three, four superstars on the team like Brooklyn or all these other teams. We're a team. How we were last year, how we have to be this year as well, we have to win games with our defense.

We gotta have game plan discipline, and we gotta win games on defense. If our offense is great, great. That's just a bonus. But who we are as a team, how we built this team and this culture is just fighting defensively, the togetherness, just the effort, the hustle plays.