http://www.nypost.com/sports/48011.htm

Reed made the game's first two baskets and that was it. "The scheme they play, Dwyane would've needed 25-plus," Reed said. "That's what he means to that team. In the scheme for our team, we had six, seven eight guys."

Reed's painful right thigh was injected with the painkiller carbocaine so he could play.

"It was a big, big needle," Reed said. "We believed it was our year. I believed if I showed up on the court with these guys, they were going to get it done. I knew my contribution wouldn't be great. They [the Heat] needed [Wade] to be closer to 100 percent than I needed to be. He was much more important in the parameters of how that team plays."

Reed left the Knicks' front-office last summer to be closer to his ailing mother in Louisiana. She recently passed away. "If that wasn't a factor, I wouldn't have left," he said.

Willis was cool. We need to save him from that piece of Shoyt Hornet organization!