New York Rookie's second-highest score in a single game

In the 1962-63 season, the team's Willis Reed progress was so rapid that it became the first Knicks player to be named NBA Rookie of the Year. Rieder scored 46 points against Los Angeles in March 1963, the second-highest single score for a New York Rookie, and Rieder ranked seventh in the Rookie League in scoring (19.5 points) , fifth in rebounds (14.7) .