(SportsNetwork. Sharrif Floyd Jersey Black Friday .com) - The New York Knicks will try to halt a franchise-record, 13-game losing streak Thursday, but it wont be easy with the Houston Rockets coming to Madison Square Garden. The Knicks slide reached unlucky number 13 on Wednesday with a 101-91 road loss to the Washington Wizards. A makeshift Knicks team that has seen most of its core players either sidelined or traded away lost for the 23rd time in its last 24 games. New Yorks previous longest slide had come to conclude the 1984-85 season. Star Carmelo Anthony sat yet again with a sore knee and hopes to play next week. Amare Stoudemire and Andrea Bargnani, two highly-compensated players, also were in suit coats with different maladies. The Knicks traded Iman Shumpert and J.R. Smith on Monday in a salary dump type of move. They received three players and a second-round pick in the deal, but released all three and also bid adieu to center Samuel Dalembert. It is tough, mentally, for sure, said Knicks guard Jose Calderon of the teams struggles. Its not easy with all the changes happening to us. Teammates are going and new ones are arriving and (theres been) so many injuries as well. Calderon paced the Knicks with 17 points Wednesday, while Jason Smith had 13 in 21 minutes before fouling out late. The Rockets have alternated losses and wins over the last six. Theyll complete a three-game road trip Thursday that featured a loss to the Chicago Bulls on Monday and a win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday. James Harden missed 12 of his 18 shots but scored a team-high 21 points and the Rockets pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 105-93 win over the short- handed Cavs. It was a game where they were going to put two on the ball and take the ball out of James hands, said Houston coach Kevin McHale. He had nine assists. I told him this was going to be one of those nights. We stayed with it. Dwight Howard finished with 17 points and a season-high 19 rebounds and Josh Smith scored 16 points off the bench, including seven in the fourth quarter when the Rockets outscored the Cavaliers 32-19 on the way to their third win in five games. Corey Brewer had eight of his 12 points in the fourth quarter and Trevor Ariza ended with 13 in the victory. The Rockets beat the Knicks in Houston on Nov. 24 and have won 10 straight in this series. Houston has won four in a row in MSG and is 9-1 as the visitor versus the Knicks. Trae Waynes Vikings Jersey Cyber Monday . Azarenka, the former No. 1 recovered from a left foot injury, lost 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 to Camila Giorgi of Italy after 2 hours, 46 minutes. "Thats exactly what I wanted," Azarenka said. "I wanted to have a competitive match. Brett Favre Vikings Jersey Cyber Monday .Chase Lang had a goal and an assist for the Hitmen (19-11-3) while Beck Malenstyn, Layne Bensmiller and Adam Tambellini added a goal apiece.Dillon Dube scored the lone goal for the Rockets (26-5-3), who had their five-game win streak halted.Each week, The Reporters put their thumbs out to the good and the bad in the world of sports. This week, they discuss the NCAAs revenue sharing, Don Zimmer, soccer language and Super Bowl 50. Dave Naylor, TSN Radio 1050: My thumb is down to world of big-time American college sports, which reminded us again this week there is no end to hypocrisy when it comes to sharing wealth with its players. This week Alabama football coach Nick Saban and Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari were rewarded with contracts worth more than $50 million each. This comes just as the NCAA is about to begin defending its right not to share revenues with players; in the lawsuit filed by former UCLA basketball star Ed OBannon, which starts on Monday. How the NCAA can argue theres not enough money in the system to compensate players when coaches like Saban and Calapari can earn more than $6 million a year should be interesting. But we just know theyll find a way to do it. Dave Feschuk, Toronto Star: My thumb is up to baseball characters. May they live forever in our memory, even as they leave us. The game lost an unforgettable one this week with the passing of Don Zimmer. In a sport built on stories, his was a pure classic. Zimmer met Babe Ruth as a boy, got married to his high-school sweetheart at home plate of a minor-league park, played with Jackie Robinson and won a World Series with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Hell probably be remembered best for charging Pedro Martinez back in 2003, when Zimmer was in his 70s at the time. As he said later, "I sure wasnt going over there to kiss him." Baseballs heroes arent always so easy to embrace. So often today we focus on money and moneyball. Zimmers life was about finding a love and fighting to keep it. He loved basebaall so much, it nearly killed him. Anthony Barr Vikings Jersey Cyber Monday. As a player, he survived two fastballs to the head. One put him in a coma, another caved in his face. He kept playing after both. He got fired four times as a manager, but he never retired. Nobody ever wanted him to. For characters as unique as Zimmer, there are no replacements. Michael Farber, Sports Illustrated: As I said four years ago, and plan to say again in 2018, my thumb is down to anybody in this country who plans to speak world cup soccer English for the next month. I dont want anyone saying a goalkeeper had a clean sheet. Clean sheets are in your linen closet. He had a shutout. The score, maybe, was one nothing, not one nil. And please dont tell me the United States needs a result against Ghana. A loss is a result, not a good result, but a result. And just so were clear, its not football here, its soccer. Alright, now carry on and keep calm. Dave Hodge, TSN: My thumb is up, though not for long, to the National Football League for deciding to ditch the Roman numeral "l" for super bowl 50, to be played in February of 2016. The use of Roman numerals began with super bowl 5, sorry, "v", and it has proved to be very successful - in creating confusion. Now that couldnt have been its intention, but what else, pray tell, was it supposed to do? Make the event seem bigger than it is? It needs no help from an ancient alphabet. 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