""Eventually," LeBron James said as he unwound from this latest stretch of four games in five nights, "it just clicks."

He was talking not about this Miami Heat run of five victories in the last six games without sidelined Dwyane Wade, but rather about last season's revival from early struggles to the NBA Finals.

He just as well might have been talking to the New York Knicks, because at this moment, it is exactly what they need to hear.

Having secured their own big three on a timetable that lagged behind the Heat's July 2010 free-agency haul of James, Wade and Chris Bosh, the Knicks arrive Friday at AmericanAirlines Arena looking very much like the Heat did at the start of last season:

Loaded with talent, lacking in chemistry."