NY Post (MIKE VACCARO) —INDIANAPOLIS — It’s hard to believe they can make an exact duplicate of what they got Thursday night. Thirty-four seconds into Game 5, Pablo Prigioni found Carmelo Anthony ducking into the lane,...
NY Post (MARC BERMAN) —INDIANAPOLIS — Tonight, the Knicks either take a giant step toward South Beach by forcing a Game 7 at the Garden or their season is over.The Knicks didn’t break their 40-year championship drought...
NY Post (TIM BONTEMPS) —The Knicks hope to leave Indianapolis tonight with a win that would bring them a step closer to making history — becoming the ninth team to recover from a 3-1 series deficit in NBA playoff...
NY Post (FRED KERBER) —INDIANAPOLIS — If they absolutely had to, the Pacers believe they could win a Game 7 at the Garden. But it’s like getting in a car driven by Lindsay Lohan. If you can avoid it, by all means do.The...
NY Post (STEVE SERBY) —INDIANAPOLIS — The banners hanging from the Garden rafters, the Red Holzman 613 banner, the Willis Reed 19 banner, the 10 Clyde Frazier banner, even the 33 Patrick Ewing banner, they’re all...
NY Post (POST STAFF REPORT) —Was there any other way to respond?J.R. Smith celebrated his improved performance (13 points, six rebounds, two assists, three steals and a blocked shot) in the Knicks’ 85-75 Game 5 win over the...
NY Post (MARC BERMAN) —INDIANAPOLIS — During a quiet moment, in the locker room in Toronto, on the eve of his 40th birthday in March, Jason Kidd asked a group of Knicks beat writers if they thought he would make a good...
NY Daily News (Mike Lupica) —In so many ways, the best and most important money game Patrick Ewing ever played for the Knicks, the one that finally put him into the NBA Finals, was Game 7 against another Indiana Pacers team,...
NY Daily News (MITCH ABRAMSON) —Mike Woodson has always publicly supported J.R. Smith in the face of the shooting guard’s struggles on and off the court. But Woodson offered Smith what seemed like a back-handed compliment during...
NY Daily News (MITCH ABRAMSON) —Beyond grappling with the Pacers’ size and defensive prowess, Mike Woodson has had to wrestle with his own rotation — whom to start, whom to have come off the bench, how to divvy up the minutes,...
Bergen —The Knicks have lost all four games in Indiana this season, blown out by 34 points in one game this season, and in the two playoff games at Bankers Life Fieldhouse the Pacers have led for all but...
$Newsday —In Game 5 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series, Knicks coach Mike Woodson finally found a formula to beat the Pacers. In addition to the usual reliance on big guns Carmelo Anthony and J.R....
NY Post (FRED KERBER) —INDIANAPOLIS – Pacers point guard George Hill, who missed Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Knicks because of a concussion, was scheduled to undergo more tests today but the...
NY Times (BECKLEY MASON) —Chris Copeland, a 3-point-shooting big man, caused the Pacers matchup problems in Game 5 as the Knicks returned to lineups that were successful in the regular season.
NY Post (POST STAFF REPORT) —Was there any other way to respond?J.R. Smith celebrated his improved performance (13 points, six rebounds, two assists, three steals and a blocked shot) in the Knicks’ 86-75 Game 5 win over the...
NY Times (HARVEY ARATON) —In their classic series with the Pacers in the ’90s, the Knicks interrupted Reggie Miller’s shooting heroics two straight years to win Game 6s at Indiana.
ESPN (Ian Begley) —Forget win or go home. This is win and go home. If the Knicks win Game 6 of their series against the Pacers on Saturday night in Indy, they will force a Game 7 at home on Monday night. But it...
theKNICKSblog.com (Tommy Dee) —Via Mike Lupica There were other players that day, Patrick didn’t do it alone, even though we are supposed to believe now that the big guy only ever did big things alone. But he was the...
ESPN (Ian Begley) —Mike Woodson still has confidence in Jason Kidd. Just not enough confidence to guarantee the slumping veteran more minutes in Game 6. Woodson played Kidd just five minutes in the Knicks' Game 5...
ESPN (Jared Zwerling) —Chris Copeland's agent, John Spencer, told ESPNNewYork.com on Friday that the Knicks are planning to give the rookie forward a qualifying offer for next season. Spencer also said his client...
Posting and Toasting (Dylan Murphy) —It wasn't pretty. Okay, it was ugly. The game was probably closer than it should have been. But it was a win. One more of those things in which the Knicks score more points than the other team,...
ESPN (Jared Zwerling) —Earlier on Friday, I chatted online with fans about the Knicks.The topics included a preview of Game 6, Chris Copeland's emergence and the Knicks' offensive improvements, the team's rotations,...
NY Post (MARC BERMAN) —Mike Woodson gave strong indications he will stick with the same rotation for tomorrow's do-or-die Game 6 that didn’t include Jason Kidd in the second half but the Knicks coach still supported the...
Posting and Toasting (Seth) —Ohhh man oh man, it is today and it is still Knicks season. Last night's game could not have been uglier, but it begot more basketball, and that is beautiful. I thought Zach Lowe did the best...
ESPN (Ian Begley) —Pacers point guard George Hill missed Game 5 against the Knicks due to a concussion. There's no definitive timetable for his return. But, under the guidelines of the NBA's concussion protocol, it...
ESPN (Jared Zwerling) —Every weekday throughout the season, ESPNNewYork.com will tackle a burning question about the Knicks in our "Opening Tip" segment.Today's Burning Question: Should Mike Woodson focus on his best...
ESPN (Jared Zwerling) —Mike Woodson has been trying too hard to search for answers offensively.He had Chris Copeland right there sitting behind him on the bench.After two losses in which the Knicks averaged 76.5 points,...
ESPN (Ian Begley and Jared Zwerling) —Brushing off allegations made by Rihanna about his excessive partying, J.R. Smith insisted on Thursday night that he has focused on basketball, not social media."I'm not worried about Instagram,...
Posting and Toasting (Seth) —The Knicks are alive. It could be the offseason right now, but it is not, and that is wonderful. The season and the hope of an improbable comeback are alive, just like Russ said, and it didn't...
ESPN (Ian Begley) —The Knicks' win on Thursday gave them more than just a chance to play another day -- it gave them confidence. "If any team can accomplish this, I feel like we can," Tyson Chandler said. The "this"...