Knicks can’t take Heat in the Garden

GREENBURGH,N.Y. — Amare stoudemire and Iman Shumpert are sidelined. Jeremy Lin isn’t back yet.

So where are the New York Knicks supposed to find enough offence to compete with the Miami Heat, and avoid setting a new NBA record for postseason futility?

“I don’t know. We’ve got to figure that out,” Carmelo Anthony said Wednesday. “Some way, somehow, everybody has to do it.”

The Knicks haven’t been able to solve the Heat no matter who plays, dropping the first two games in this first-round series and all three during the regular season.

And if they are hoping to get an advantage from playing at home, well, they can probably forget that. Lebron James and Dwyane Wade thrive at Madison Square Garden and will be extra fired up tonight to try and move the Heat within one victory of the second round.

“We understand the intensity is going to raise even more,” James said. “I’ve had an opportunity to play a lot of games in that building, but none quite as big as these. This is the Mecca of basketball and it comes with a little more incentive. There’s a lot of history in this building. But we understand what we’re there for.”