Improved Knicks cross bridge to face stunned Nets

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It was just before Christmas when the New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets last met -- the Knicks about a week away from retooling their roster, the Nets hovering around the .500 mark.

Since then, the intracity foes' trajectories are drastically different. Come Tuesday night, the Knicks are chasingfor a fourth straight win while the Nets attempt to avoid falling further away from