New York heads to Indiana on a six-game losing streak after starting a three-game road trip with a 103-92 loss at Minnesota on Sunday. The Knicks are on their fourth skid of at least six games.

New York also has scored less than 100 points in three straight games and in 11 of its last 21 games. The Knicks also dropped to 0-20 when scoring less than 100 points after shooting 43 percent and committing 17 turnovers Sunday.

Damyean Dotson scored 26 points but most of New York's struggles were around the rim and in the paint. The Knicks were 20-for-48 in the paint and were 17-for-36 on layups and dunks. >> Read More

The Knicks couldn't control the Pacers on their home floor, losing 126-106 at Madison Square Garden on Friday night. >> Box score

Things to know about Friday's game

1) The last time Domantis Sabonis came to The Garden, he left with a perfect 12-for-12 line from the field in a monster game. He didn't produce the same rare box score this time around, but he was still the Pacers' leading scorer with 22 points on 9-of-14 from the field. He also made all four foul shot attempts. On top of that, he had a double-double with 15 rebounds and three assists.

The Indiana Pacers are feeling the absence of center Myles Turner in the low post as opponents have been constantly getting to the rim in the past three games.

Turner has been ruled out again (sore right shoulder) for Friday's visit to the New York Knicks. The Pacers are hoping to solve some recent defensive issues despite his absence at center in the finale of their season-high five-game road trip.

Turner was already dealing with a broken nose and wearing a facemask after getting hit by Atlanta's John Collins on Dec. 31. He played 26 minutes last Friday when the Pacers opened the trip with a 119-116 overtime win at Chicago on Victor Oladipo's game-winning 3-pointer. >> Read more

NEW YORK (AP) Victor Oladipo scored 14 of his 26 points in the fourth quarter, Thaddeus Young added 21, and the Indiana Pacers beat Brooklyn 114-106 Friday night, ending the Nets' seven-game winning streak.

Bojan Bogdanovic and Domantas Sabonis each added 17 point for the Pacers, who had lost their previous two.

Rookie Rodions Kurucs scored a season-high 26 points for Brooklyn, and DeMarre Carroll added 16.

The Knicks lost to the Indiana Pacers 110-99 on Sunday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. >> Box score

Things to know about Sunday's game

1. While four of five Knicks starters finished in double figures, they couldn't find a way to stop Indiana's Victor Oladipo, who scored a game-high 26 points. 

2. Enes Kanter recorded a double-double of 20 points and 15 rebounds, Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 19 and Emmanuel Mudiay 18 for New York, which has lost six of its last seven games.

Former Knicks center Kyle O'Quinn agreed to a one-year, $4.5 million deal with the Indiana Pacers on Friday, a league source confirmed to SNY contributor Adam Zagoria.

The 28-year-old O'Quinn, who averaged 7.1 points and 6.1 rebounds in 77 games with New York last season, opted out of his $4.25 million player option at the end of the season.

New York initially showed interest in bringing back O'Quinn, according to ESPN's Ian Begley, however that interest waned in recent days.

Newly-acquired point guard Emmanuel Mudiay recorded a double-double of 14 points and 10 assists in his Knicks debut in Sunday's 121-113 loss to the Indiana Pacers at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

"He really showed court sense, made some great passes," Knicks head coach Jeff Hornacek said, according to the New York Post's Marc Berman.

Victor Oladipo had 30 points, nine assists and eight rebounds, and the Indiana Pacers beat the New York Knicks 121-113 on Sunday.

Bojan Bogdanovic made four 3-pointers and finished with 20 points and Thaddeus Young added 18 points, 11 rebounds and five assists for the Pacers, who have won six of eight.

Enes Kanter and Tim Hardaway Jr. each scored 17 points, and Michael Beasley had 16 points and 13 rebounds for the Knicks, whose losing streak reached six games.

Victor Oladipo scored 26 points, Domantas Sabonis had 17 coming off the bench and the Indiana Pacers beat the Brooklyn Nets 109-97 on Sunday night.

Myles Turner added 16, Cory Joseph chipped in 15 and Darren Collison added 14 for the Pacers.

Allen Crabbe shook off his recent struggles, scoring 17 points in the first half on 5-for-7 shooting, including four 3s. He didn't score in the second half.

Thaddeus Young scored 20 points to lead seven Indiana players in double figures as the Pacers routed the short-handed New York Knicks 115-97 on Monday night.

Bojan Bogdanovic scored 19 points and Victor Oladipo added 16 for the Pacers (13-11), who led by 26 at half and 95-65 after three quarters

The Knicks (11-12) were without leading scorers Kristaps Porzingis (25.8 ppg) and Tim Hardaway Jr. (17.8 ppg) for a second consecutive loss. Porzingis is dealing with a sprained right ankle and illness and Hardaway has a lower left leg injury.

The New York Knicks will be short-handed again Monday night.

The question is whether the Indiana Pacers (12-11) be able to take advantage when they host the Knicks (11-11).

New York played without its two top scorers, Kristaps Porzingis and Tim Hardaway Jr., in a 105-100 loss to the visiting Orlando Magic on Sunday.

Knicks guard Tim Hardaway Jr. and forward Kristaps Porzingis will not travel with the team for Monday's road game against the Indiana Pacers, the team announced.

Hardaway has been dealing with a stress injury to his lower left leg, and head coach Jeff Hornacek told reporters Hardaway will undergo tests on his shin, according to ESPN's Ian Begley.

Hornacek added that Hardaway's current leg injury is unrelated to the plantar fasciitis he dealt with in November.

Porzingis also will not travel with the team after he sprained his right ankle in Wednesday's game against the Miami Heat.

Kristaps Porzingis scored a career-high 40 points and Frank Ntilikina hit a go-ahead 3-pointer late in the fourth quarter as the Knicks rallied from 19 points down in the second half to beat the Indiana Pacers 108-101 on Sunday at Madison Square Garden.

Porzingis made 15 of 24 shots and recorded eight rebound and six blocks, as the Knicks won for the fifth time in their last six games.

Porzingis converted on a three-point play with 3:26 remaining to give New York a 97-96 lead, its first since the first quarter, but Indiana's Darren Collison responded with a 3-pointer. Porzingis answered with a 19-foot jumper with 2:14 remaining to tie the game, and on the Knicks' next possession, the rookie Ntilikina hit a go-ahead 3-pointer from the left wing to give New York a 102-99 lead.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Victor Oladipo scored 22 points in his Indiana debut, Darren Collison added 21 points and 11 assists in his return to Indianapolis, and the Pacers held off the Brooklyn Nets 140-131 on Wednesday night in their season opener.

Eight players scored in double figures as the Pacers, in their first game since trading All-Star Paul George, produced their highest point total since a 144-point game against Denver on Nov. 9, 2010. Myles Turner had 21 points and 14 rebounds, and Thaddeus Young added 17 points and 11 rebounds.

Paul George scored 24 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, Jeff Teague had 24 points and the Indiana Pacers beat the Brooklyn Nets 106-97 on Friday night.

After blowing a 16-point fourth-quarter lead, Carmelo Anthony hit a go-ahead jumper with under 30 seconds to play as the New York Knicks hung on to beat the Indiana Pacers, 109-103, on Monday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana Pacers will look to end a two-game losing streak when they play host to the New York Knicks on Monday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

The teams have met twice this season, with the home team winning both times.

The Pacers (22-21) have won seven of their last 10 games despite the recent straggles. They are returning home after a three-game Western road trip.

The Knicks head to Indiana to play the Pacers at 7 p.m. on Saturday night.

According to STATS...

• The Knicks defeated the Pacers 118-111 at Madison Square Garden on December 20; Carmelo Anthony had 35 points and went 7-for-11 from behind the three-point arc in the victory. The loss snapped Indiana's overall seven-game win streak in this series, but the Pacers still own an active eight-game home win streak versus New York.

INDIANAPOLIS -- For the first time this season, the Indiana Pacers have won three straight games. They'll look to make it four straight as they host the Brooklyn Nets at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Thursday night.

Paul George has been hot of late, scoring 32 or more points in three of his last four games. As he goes, the Pacers have gone this season. In the 18 Pacer wins, Paul George is averaging 24.4 points per game on 49% shooting. In the 18 Pacer losses, George is averaging 20.4 points per game on just 41 percent shooting. The Pacers are also 9-2 this season when George scores 25 or more points.

"The moment we start getting on a winning streak, I think it will carry over," George said. "Our defense is starting to travel. We've got a chance to make it four against Brooklyn back home."

NEW YORK -- Relying on a last-second shot to get a win on the first night of a back-to-back is not necessarily the preference for the Indiana Pacers.

It still beats the alternative and now the Pacers will try to complete the back-to-back sweep Tuesday night when they visit the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.

Indiana (15-14) is playing its 10th game in the last 15 days. The Pacers have won five of those games and four of their last six overall.

On Monday, Indiana needed Thaddeus Young's short jumper with 0.9 of a second remaining to get a 107-105 victory over the Washington Wizards. Young's dramatic game-winner occurred after the Pacers held an eight-point lead with 4:05 remaining.

Glenn Robinson III scored 20 points and grabbed five rebounds and the Indiana Pacers beat the Brooklyn Nets 118-97 on Friday night.

The Pacers opened the second half with a 20-5 run and led by as many 31 points.

The Nets take on the Pacers on Friday night in Indianapolis at 8 p.m.

According to STATS...

• The Nets defeated the Pacers 103-94 in Brooklyn on October 28. But Indiana has won four of its last five home games in this series.
• Brooklyn has lost its last five games and allowed 100 or more points in eight consecutive games (2-6); the latter is the fourth-longest active streak in the league.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) -- Devine Redding gave Indiana the lead with a 34-yard touchdown run late in the third quarter and caught Richard Lagow's third touchdown pass of the game in the fourth as the error-prone Hoosiers rallied for a 33-27 win over Rutgers Saturday.

Lagow was 28 of 40 for 394 yards. He hit Ricky Jones for a 36-yard score and started the second-half rally for Indiana (5-4, 3-3 Big Ten) with a 40-yard TD toss to Camion Patrick.

Zander Diamont added a 59-yard touchdown run for Indiana, which turned it over four times, missed three field goals and two extra points.

Jeremy Lin had 21 points and just missed a triple-double in his Nets home debut, Brook Lopez scored 25 and Brooklyn got its first victory by beating the Indiana Pacers 103-94 on Friday night.Lin finished with nine rebounds and nine assists, drawing some delirious cheers the way he briefly did during his run of Linsanity last time he played in New York, with the Knicks in 2012.

Clifton Moore , the 6-foot-10 Class of 2017 small forward from Hatboro-Horsham (Pa.), committed to Indiana after his official visit this weekend.

Moore, whose stock exploded this summer at the Elevate Hoops events in Philadelphia and Ardsley, N.Y., also considered Ole Miss, Lafayette, Temple, St. Joe's and Northwestern.

I want to thank all my coaches and schools that recruited me. I am proud to announce that I will be committing to Indiana university #iubb pic.twitter.com/ePjI4VmCkN

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Indiana junior forward Troy Williams will remain in the NBA Draft and sign with agent Stephen Pina of ASM Sports, sources confirmed to SNY.tv.

The 6-foot-7 Williams averaged 13.3 points and 5.8 rebounds last season at Indiana. He is currently projected as the No. 48 pick in 2017 by DraftExpress.com.

Pina and ASM have also signed former Seton Hall guard Isaiah Whitehead and former Syracuse guard Malachi Richardson. All three players spent time together at the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago.

Myles Turner had 28 points and 10 rebounds and the Indiana Pacers beat the Brooklyn Nets 129-105 Sunday to clinch a playoff berth.

Solomon Hill had 13 points and 12 rebounds for Indiana while George Hill had 18 points, Ian Mahinmi had 16 and Paul George had 15. The Pacers jumped ahead 17-5 in the first quarter and led by as many as 42 points.

Indiana freshman big man Thomas Bryant will return to campus for his sophomore season and won't enter the NBA Draft, sources confirmed to SNY.tv.

The 6-foot-10 Bryant is currently projected as the No 8 pick in the 2017 NBA Draft by DraftExpress.com.

"Late first-round at best right now," one NBA executive told SNY.tv of Bryant. "Young, not physically ready."

PHILADELPHIA -- Indiana freshman big man Thomas Bryant is undecided on testing the NBA waters after this season, he told Jeff Rabjohns of Rivals.com.

The 6-foot-10 Bryant is currently projected as the No 8 pick in the 2017 NBA Draft by DraftExpress.com.

"Late first-round at best right now," one NBA executive told SNY.tv of Bryant. "Young, not physically ready."

NEW YORK -- Not even Long Island Lutheran coach John Buck could believe what he just witnessed.

"Wow," Buck said after learning his Crusaders shot 72 percent in their 96-60 destruction of Cardozo on Saturday. "Wow. The shots were going down."

Paced by Indiana commit Devonte Green's 25-point effort, LuHi suffocated the Judges defensively and buried the Bayside program with precision passing and effortless transition buckets. Green (18) and unheralded senior wing Charles Manning (15) combined for 33 points and seven threes in the first half alone, with the Crusaders' 52-24 halftime lead appearing insurmountable.

NEW YORK - The scoreboard said Lutheran versus Sacred Heart, but this game often felt like Devonte Green against Mustapha Heron.

Green, the newly-minted Indiana commit, scored 39 points and led Lutheran to a 73-72 victory over Sacred Heart despite Heron's heroic 41-point, 13-rebound performance.

The Auburn signee's 41 points were just three shy of Sean Kilpatrick's all-time high in the Big Apple Invitational, which is in its 13th year.

Devonte Green was one of the few remaining Class of 2016 guards still on the board.

Until Saturday, that is.

The 6-foot-2, 182-pound point guard out of Long Island Lutheran committed to Indiana after visiting the campus on Monday and Tuesday, becoming their fourth pledge in the senior class.

(AP) -- The Indiana Pacers are doing a good job of using different lineups to create points off turnovers and that factor could be a recipe for success against the lowly Brooklyn Nets.

The Nets struggle to limit opponents in that department and have been awful on the road ahead of Friday night's matchup against a Pacers team that is 7-0 at home against Eastern Conference foes.

Indiana (15-9) has shown its versatility by occasionally employing a starting lineup with two big men with a presence in the post, as it did in Wednesday's 107-81 rout of Dallas in which Lavoy Allen and Ian Mahinmi started. Allen replaced C.J. Miles, who came off the bench.

Rawle Alkins went off on Sunday at the Bluegrass Showcase in Lexington, Ky.

The 6-foot-5 Brooklyn native poured in 51 points as Word of God Academy (N.C.) beat Victory Prep (Texas), 121-101, in front of Indiana head coach Tom Crean and assistant Chuck Martin as well as Louisville assistant Mike Balado. Alkins drained six of his seven 3-pointers in the second half, when he scored 33 points.

Jarred Vanderbilt, a Class of 2017 big man, had 33 points, 23 rebounds and 6 assists in the loss.

Devonte Green is one of those attractive Class of 2016 players who has yet to pick a school.

The uncommitted 6-foot-2, 175-pound point guard out of Long Island Lutheran remains on the board and is drawing increasing interest from several schools. Indiana head coach Tom Crean and Iona head coach Tim Cluess and associate head coach Jared Grasso watched Green go off for 31 points with seven 3-pointers Thursday night in a 97-58 blowout win of Chaminade.

"Devonte has had a great start to the season," LuHi coach John Buck said. "Coach [Bruce] Weber from Kansas State and Coach Crean from Indiana have been out to see us play. If he continues to work hard and lead our team, I'm confident he will be one of the most sought after guards that has yet to commit."

The Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 List was released on Tuesday afternoon with Kentucky (Skal Labissiere, Jamal Murray, Tyler Ulis) and Indiana (James Blackmon, Yogi Ferrell, Troy Williams) each getting three players on.

The Wooden Award is presented annually to the nation's top player. The initial list of 50, which is below, will be cut to 25 in mid-January and 15 in late-February. The winner will be announced at the Final Four. Recent recipients include Creighton's Doug McDermott and Wisconsin's Frank Kaminsky.

• Grayson Allen (Duke)
• Zach Auguste (Notre Dame)
• Ron Baker (Wichita State)
• DeAndre Bembry (St. Joseph's)
• James Blackmon (Indiana)
• Malcolm Brogdon (Virginia)
• Jaylen Brown (California)
• Jalen Brunson (Villanova)
• Kyle Collinsworth (BYU)
• Kellen Dunham (Butler)
• Kris Dunn (Providence)
• Perry Ellis (Kansas)
• Yogi Ferrell (Indiana)
• Rico Gathers (Baylor)
• Anthony Gill (Virginia)
• Daniel Hamilton (Connecticut)
• A.J. Hammons (Purdue)
• Nigel Hayes (Wisconsin)
• Buddy Hield (Oklahoma)
• Danuel House (Texas A&M)
• Brandon Ingram (Duke)
• Demetrius Jackson (Notre Dame)
• Brice Johnson (North Carolina)
• Damian Jones (Vanderbilt)
• Bronson Koenig (Wisconsin)
• Skal Labissiere (Kentucky)
• Jake Layman (Maryland)
• Caris LeVert (Michigan)
• Nic Moore (SMU)
• Monte Morris (Iowa State)
• Jamal Murray (Kentucky)
• Malik Newman (Mississippi State)
• Georges Niang (Iowa State)
• Marcus Paige (North Carolina)
• Gary Payton II (Oregon State)
• Jakob Poeltl (Utah)
• Taurean Prince (Baylor)
• Xavier Rathan-Mayes (Florida State)
• Domantas Sabonis (Gonzaga)
• Ben Simmons (LSU)
• D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera (Georgetown)
• Kaleb Tarczewski (Arizona)
• Isaiah Taylor (Texas)
• Melo Trimble (Maryland)
• Tyler Ulis (Kentucky)
• Denzel Valentine (Michigan State)
• Fred VanVleet (Wichita State)
• Tyrone Wallace (California)
• Troy Williams (Indiana)
• Kyle Wiltjer (Gonzaga)

De'Ron Davis is headed to Indiana.

The 6-foot-10 Davis, who is ranked the No. 10 power forward in the Class of 2016 by 247Sports.com, also considered Mississippi State.

"Coach Tom Crean is an absolute powerhouse coach," Danny Fisher, Davis' coach at Overland Park (CO, told SNY.tv over the weekend. "They've built a great relationship. Coach Crean's ability to develop players and the history of Indiana basketball, the Field house and their academic program for De'Ron is really, really impressive as well."

Ranked the No. 10 combo guard in the Class of 2016 by 247Sports.com, Jones also considered Cal, Georgetown and Oklahoma State.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Thomas Bryant?saga is over.

The 6-foot-10 McDonald's All-American from Huntington (W.V.) Prep committed to Indiana on ESPN, choosing the Hoosiers over Syracuse, Kentucky and Missouri.

Anunoby, out of Jefferson City (Mo.) High School, joins Juwan Morgan in Tom Crean's 2015 class.

He is ranked No. 194 in the 247, but Team Thad coach Norton Hurd said his upside is "extremely high."

As expected, Indiana has picked up a pledge from Juwan Morgan, the No. 63-ranked player in the 2015 class by 247 Sports.

Morgan chose Indiana over Vanderbilt after visiting Indiana this past weekend.

By JACK LeGWIN

Emmitt Holt has committed to Indiana.