New York Knicks: Players Who Need To Step Up Against Denver Nuggets

The New York Knicks will complete the five-game road trip with a game against the Denver Nuggets. Who needs to step up against the Nuggets?

The New York Knicks have done a solid job of surviving an extensive stretch of games on the road. New York has played its past four games, as well as five of its past six outings, away from Madison Square Garden.

Having gone 3-2 during that five-game run and 2-2 over the past four outings, New York will have a chance to end this run on a high note and improve to 3-2.

Next on the schedule for the 14-12 Knicks will be the 10-16 Denver Nuggets. Led by a pair of former Knicks, Wilson Chandler and Danilo Gallinari, the Nuggets are in the process of finding their identity in the post-Karl era.

Though Carmelo Anthony left Denver in 2011, a road game against the Nuggets is all but certain to evoke an emotional response from both the star and the fans.

New York has gone 2-2 through the first four games of its five-game road trip, but it’s dropped two in a row. The Knicks fell 113-111 to the Phoenix Suns in a brutal overtime affair and lost 103-90 to the Golden State Warriors with both Anthony and Derrick Rose sidelined by injuries.

The question is: who must step up in order for the Knicks to secure a victory and complete this five-game road trip with a winning record?