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Spurs aim to keep home streak going vs. Knicks

Jan 21, 2011 - 4:13 PM (Sports Network) - The San Antonio Spurs will shoot for a 17th consecutive win in the Alamo City Friday night when they finish a four-game homestand by welcoming the reeling New York Knicks to the AT&T Center.

DeJuan Blair scored 12 of his 22 points in the third quarter and sparked the Spurs to a seventh straight win overall, a tough 104-95 decision versus the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday,

Blair also grabbed 11 rebounds, and Manu Ginobili added 23 points and seven assists for the Spurs, who erased a double-digit halftime deficit to improve to a gaudy 23-2 at AT&T Center. Meanwhile, the team is a perfect 7-0 when Blair records a double-double.

Tony Parker chipped in 17 points and Tim Duncan tallied 10 points and 12 boards against Toronto.

"In the second half, we got back in the game because we played very, very good team defense," Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich said. "People started paying attention and taking some pride in individual and team [defense] and those stops generated offense and that was the ball game."

San Antonio is in the midst of its longest home winning streak since a 16-game spurt from Dec. 11, 2004-Feb. 23, 2005. Meanwhile, the club is on pace to finish with a franchise record 70 wins if the second half of its season matches its first.

The Spurs haven't lost at the AT&T Center since a 103-94 setback to Southwest Division-rival Dallas way back on Nov. 26.

The Knicks, meanwhile, have hit the skids recently and dropped the opener of a tough three-game road trip in Houston on Wednesday when Kevin Martin led a balanced attack with 21 points, as the Rockets took down the Knicks, 104-89.

Amare Stoudemire finished with 25 points and five boards for the Knicks, who have dropped four straight games overall. Stoudemire has now scored at least 20 points in 26 consecutive tilts, the most in Knicks history since Patrick Ewing did it in 28 straight contests from January 25-March 27, 1990.

Raymond Felton chipped in 14 points and five assists for New York, which got 13 points and seven boards from Toney Douglas.

"We just tried to make every shot hard whether it was a contested three or in the paint...Amare is a load. He is having an MVP type season," Houston center Chuck Hayes said. "I just wanted to take away his space, beat him to the spot and make him shoot over me."

San Antonio has topped New York seven straight times in the Alamo City but the Knicks topped the Spurs In Madison Square Garden, 128-115, on Jan. 4. New York shot nearly 55 percent in that contest en route to the most points the Spurs have allowed in a regulation game since March of 1993.