This broken-play game-winner was the ending Knicks-Lakers deserved (Ball Don’t Lie)

The New York Knicks' Sunday visit to Staples Center to take on the Los Angeles Lakers in Kobe Bryant's final meeting with the team against whom he scored his first NBA points 20 years ago was, well, kind of a dud of a game between two bad teams in the early stages of what figure to be long-term rebuilding projects. It was also, however, a game that featured a furious and unlikely comeback led by a delightful combination of misfit toys — as was the case in last Sunday's stunning upset of the Golden State Warriors, it was L.A.'s second unit, led by 32-year-old rookie point guard Marcelo Huertas, veteran big man Brandon Bass, rookie high-flyer Larry Nance Jr. and southpaw playmaker Lou Williams, that turned a 16-point third-quarter deficit into a five-point lead with 3:16 left in regulation — and some as-advertised final-minutes mano a mano shot-making by Bryant and Knicks star Carmelo Anthony. Play Tourney Pick'em | Fill out your bracket | Print it | Celebrity Challenge It was, then, a pretty trashy game with a surprisingly exciting finish ... and, really, it's hard to imagine that kind of contest ending on a more appropriate play than this: After Bryant attacked Aaron...