Tell all the folks back in Salt Lake City that their forgotten NBA team is holding up just fine.

No need to send money or clean underwear. The Jazz, the kings of the road, left for Cleveland last night with another win stuffed in their carry-on bags.

"There are some games in this league when you're down and the lead is just insurmountable," John Stockton said. "So you just have to play it out and move on. But we never had that feeling."

Probably because stop No. 6 on their NBA-record nine-game trip was at the Garden, where the lead is never safe for the home team.

The one thing the Knicks do better than anything else is roll out the red carpet. Last night, they blew their 10th game of the season in which they held a double-digit lead and fell to 14-14 at home after a 92-89 loss.

The Jazz has come back off the All-Star break with wins in Indiana, Philly, Toronto and New York to go five games over .500 for the first time this season. Utah still has tonight's game against the Cavs, a date in Denver on Wednesday and one more in Sacramento on Feb. 26. Then it finally gets to return home to the Delta Center, where it normally doesn't need French judges to win.