NBA ROUNDUP Sunday's games

76ers 93, Knicks 92
NEW YORK -- Latrell Sprewell arrived early, entered the game late and disappeared down the stretch along with the rest of his team.
Sprewell played his first game of the season but couldn't reverse New York's slide as Philadelphia 76ers scored 17 of the final 25 points.
"C-plus," Sprewell said when asked to assess his performance. "I could have been a lot better."
The 76ers won on the road for the first time this season, while the loss was the fourth in a row for the Knicks. Allen Iverson and Todd MacCulloch each scored 17 points, Keith Van Horn had 15 points and 12 rebounds and Eric Snow added 14 points for the 76ers.
The habitually tardy Sprewell arrived at the arena six minutes before his team's 11:30 a.m. deadline, then made his first appearance nine minutes into the game -- the first time he came off the bench since the 1999 playoffs.
Sprewell played 31 minutes and had 16 points on 6-for-15 shooting but was held scoreless for the final 10 minutes.
Howard Eisley had 16 points and 10 assists for New York, whose 1-8 record is the worst in the Eastern Conference.
"We have a whole lot of basketball left," Sprewell said. "If we give up now, it could get a whole lot worse."
Sprewell, who missed the first seven weeks of the preseason and regular season while recovering from a broken hand, scored seven of his points in a 16-4 run bridging the third and fourth quarters as New York turned a 63-58 deficit into a 74-67 lead. The rally injected some life into a crowd that had been waiting nearly all season for something to cheer.
Sprewell was poised to restore the Knicks' seven-point lead after he poked the ball away from Snow and went in alone for a breakaway dunk. But a moment before he jammed the ball with two hands, Kurt Thomas body checked trailing defender Brian Skinner and was called for a foul, erasing the basket.
"I'm still mad at Kurt," Sprewell said with a laugh. "Actually, he said he thought (Skinner) was going to foul me."
Thomas picked up a technical foul for arguing during a timeout less than a minute later, and Iverson hit the foul shot to cut the deficit to four. Eisley answered with a 3-pointer and Othella Harrington hit two foul shots for a 79-70 lead.
It was 84-76 with 6:05 left before the 76ers rallied, holding New York without a field goal for four minutes and using an 11-2 run to take an 87-85 lead.
Iverson tied it at 89 on two foul shots with 1:52 left. Michael Doleac missed a jumper and Van Horn scored on a putback, making it 91-89, and Allan Houston missed a jumper from the corner with 30 seconds left.
MacCulloch made 1 of 2 from the line with 12.5 seconds left for a three-point lead, and Eisley rushed an off-target 3-pointer off the ensuing inbounds pass. The play was designed to be a 3-pointer by Houston off a pass from Sprewell, but Philadelphia's defense forced the Knicks to improvise.
Van Horn made a foul shot with 6.3 seconds left for a four-point lead that sealed the win.
"A loss like this is tough to take," Sprewell said. "When you're up by nine with under five minutes, that's a situation you want to be in. We played well until the final five minutes."
-- Associated Press