New York Knicks: New York Magazine News Articles
New York Magazine (Seth Rosenthal) —
Each week throughout the year, we'll track the highs, lows, ins, and outs of Mike Woodson's ever-evolving rotation. Come with us for this edition of the Knicks Power Rankings. 1. Carmelo Anthony. (Last week: 1) It was a week of flux — changes to the starting lineup, reintroduction of Amar'e Stoudemire into the rotation — that ended on a really sour note for Melo and the Knicks....
New York Magazine (Seth Rosenthal) —
I, as a Knicks fan, am instinctively hateful and fearful of the Celtics. The Knicks-Nets rivalry has been hyped up relentlessly this season — and it's already played out with somewhat satisfying contention over three games — but my sense is that Knicks fans still harbor the most in-division malice for their neighbors in Boston. I know I do. Over the past few years, Knicks-Celtics...
New York Magazine (Will Leitch) —
The Knicks' loss to Portland on New Year's Day was so discouraging — particularly coming on the heels of some other games with tons of defensive lapses — that you had to start wondering if the Knicks were about to be devoured by the regression machine , that the defense was gonna be this bad all year. ( People a lot smarter than we are were worried about their defense, too.) The...
New York Magazine (Joe DeLessio) —
We already knew that last Sunday's Jets game would be their final one of the season (so long, Mr. Tannenbaum), but the Giants still had a chance to make the playoffs, if they won and got some help. And though they did their part against the Eagles, they were eliminated from postseason contention minutes later when the Bears beat the Lions. (It's been a frustrating few weeks for...
New York Magazine (Seth Rosenthal) —
Amar'e Stoudemire has long been a bad defensive player. He's good for the occasional resounding weak-side block, but with a mess of awful footwork and missed rotations in between. Some of the old issues resurfaced in Stoudemire's debut against the Blazers, prompting the perennial talk of Amar'e's potential to improve as a defensive player. The issue is that while some athletically gifted...
New York Magazine (Will Leitch) —
The Knicks had so much pregame excitement last night that it was easy to forget there was an actual game to play, and win. Carmelo Anthony was set to return after missing three games after messing up his knee against the Lakers on Christmas Day — an injury that the Knicks were being so typically weird and secretive about that fans were terrified it was more serious that it turned out to...
New York Magazine (Will Leitch) —
All right, it's New Year's Eve, it's time to get out of here and go try to find the intestinal fortitude to party. We never understood why people complain about New Year's Eve. People always talk about the "pressure" to have a good time. For 364 days a year, we feel "pressure" to keep a job, to pay our rent, to live a good life, to keep our heads above water. One day a year, we feel "pressure"...
New York Magazine (Seth Rosenthal) —
Each week throughout the year, we'll track the highs, lows, ins, and outs of Mike Woodson's ever-evolving rotation. Come with us for this edition of the Knicks Power Rankings. 1. Carmelo Anthony. (Last week: 1) Sadly, this is another top ranking earned mainly by absence. Melo worked through a hyperextended knee for an impressive but futile 34 points on Christmas Day in L.A., then missed...
New York Magazine (Seth Rosenthal) —
In a way, yesterday was big for the Knicks. They held their first full practice in almost a month and got Amar'e Stoudemire out there for all activities, including full-contact, full-speed scrimmages. In another way, yesterday was a letdown: Only nine Knicks were available to scrimmage as Iman Shumpert only participated in non-contact activities, Carmelo Anthony stayed resting his...
New York Magazine (Seth Rosenthal) —
Amar'e Stoudemire isn't the only Knick approaching a return from knee injury. Iman Shumpert's return date is likely weeks behind Stoudemire's, but he's also getting there. Marc Berman reported late last night that this weekend, when the Knicks hold their first full practice in weeks, Shumpert will be cleared to participate on a non-contact basis . That presumably means Shumpert can do drills,...
New York Magazine (Will Leitch) —
We're not sure we remember a more giddily entertaining Knicks player than J.R. Smith. How can it possibly be that the Knicks are only paying this guy $2.8 million? Even when he is doing one of those infuriating J.R. Smith things — and there have been fewer of them this season — you know it's out of effort, creativity, and flat insanity. He's impossible not to watch, and we haven't...
New York Magazine (Seth Rosenthal) —
There is a thing the Knicks do. They've done it for a while. I don't think it's sinister or anything, but it's really obnoxious and it puts fans and media on perpetual edge. The thing: When the Knicks don't yet know the extent of a player's injury, they make the injury seem minor. Each of Amar'e Stoudemire's massive, multi-month-eating injuries originally rendered him "questionable" or...
New York Magazine (Seth Rosenthal) —
The good news, I think, is we've seen this look from these Knicks before. The Knicks of late November hadn't practiced in weeks and descended into sleepy, structureless basketball that lost them three of four games around Thanksgiving. Once they had a few consecutive off days — time, in Mike Woodson's mind, to hold a full practice — they got back on track. That practice came on...
New York Magazine (Seth Rosenthal) —
For the first time since he went down with another knee injury, Amar'e Stoudemire gave an actual date on the Gregorian calendar as a possible point of return . That date: January 1, 2013, when the Knicks play the Blazers. It'll be very, very cool to see Amar'e return whenever the time comes, though he missed a couple opportunities for more gravid, narrative-laced returns yesterday and...
New York Magazine (Will Leitch) —
So the Knicks played lousy yesterday against the Minnesota Timberwolves, like they played on Friday night against the Bulls (a game they lost 110–106 but was a lot worse than that, though it did have the entertainment advantage of getting half the team thrown out), and all told, the Knicks should be sitting here today having lost two in a row and three of four at home. As Posting and...