New York Knicks: New York Magazine News Articles
New York Magazine (Will Leitch) —
We are two games into the Era of Two City Hoops Teams — seriously, please, someone come up with a catchy, "Subway Series" sort of name for these games; we're still using "Knicks-Nets" in a headline, for crying out loud — and while we might not necessarily know who the "king of the city" is, we do know one thing: These teams should probably just play every day. It might not bring...
New York Magazine (Will Leitch) —
Yesterday, before the Nets-Knicks game, the folks at Prokhorov/Ratner/Yormark/Jay-Z International (or PRYJZI, as we're probably never going to call it again) dedicated the Ebbets Field flagpole outside Barclays Center . It was a moderately sized deal: Brett Yormark and Bruce Ratner were there, but Jay-Z and Mikhail Prokhorov weren't. Basically: The Nets staff that works in Metrotech made the...
New York Magazine (Will Leitch) —
We are six days away from the return of Jeremy Lin to Madison Square Garden and all that entails, and the extremists on both sides are bringing out their worst, with the Lin-swooners grousing that the Knicks are a dysfunctional franchise in a current hot streak that will still struggle when their elderly players all grow more elderly together (and thus should have kept one of their few young...
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. Tyson Chandler. (Last week: 2) We reflected last week on the Knicks' near-effortless handling of a soft patch of schedule. This week wasn't nearly as easy. After a brief rest, the Knicks played four games in...
New York Magazine (Will Leitch) —
It really was only two weeks ago that the Nets beat the Knicks at Barclays Center in overtime, an extremely exciting night that made one wonder if the Nets — who moved into a tie with the Knicks atop the Atlantic Division with the win — truly were about to take over. Since that night, the Knicks are 6-1 and the Nets are 2-4, currently ensconced in a four-game losing streak. A lot...
New York Magazine (Joe DeLessio) —
The NHL lockout has been in effect for nearly three months now, and so, with no actual games to report on, we're going to link to a different hockey video every day until a new CBA is reached. Today: John Amirante's national anthem before Game 7 of the '94 Finals. A few years back, we chatted with John Amirante, the Rangers' longtime national anthem singer. It was one of the more fun...
New York Magazine (Will Leitch) —
Every NBA season brings with it scheduling quirks and headaches, and the Knicks just finished up one of their tougher ones. Starting on Wednesday night, they had four games in five days; two of which were on the road, and all but one were against teams that made the playoffs last year and were considered legitimate contenders coming into this season. For two of those games, they were without...
New York Magazine (Seth Rosenthal) —
Avery Johnson tried something new to start the Nets' game against the Bucks last night, benching Kris Humphries and setting Reggie Evans's tornadic stylings loose with the first unit. It seemed to work at first, as Brooklyn opened the game on an 11-2 run, but things fell off pretty rapidly. Brooklyn's defense unraveled and their offense looked — as it has recently — sticky and...
New York Magazine (Seth Rosenthal) —
It's hard not to blow one's top after a Knicks win like last night's. Such a gleeful, disrespectful bludgeoning of the defending champs — and the second straight one of those, at that — is bound to elicit all sorts of "The Knicks are for real!" sentiments from fans, media, and even some more impressionable players. It's exciting but immaterial in early December. And that's what...
New York Magazine (Will Leitch) —
It's sort of impossible not to be skeptical of the Knicks, as a team, as a franchise, as a corporation. Last year was without question their most thrilling, accomplished season in almost a decade and a half, and that season featured two different six-game losing streaks, a coaching change, and a quick first-round playoff exit. (Not to mention the postseason jettisoning of the team's most...
New York Magazine (Seth Rosenthal) —
What a week! During a stretch in which the Nets didn't play much (and lost their only weekday game ), the Knicks were quite busy and quite excellent. They took care of the Suns , then edged the feisty Bobcats thanks to a J.R. Smith game-winner ( and some dancing ), then clobbered the defending champs for the second time this season. They may or may not be "for real," but wins like that...
New York Magazine (Devin Kharpertian) —
We're a two-team city now, and we cannot subsist on Seth's Knicks Power Rankings alone. Thus, the Nets Power Rankings, written by the excellent Devin Kharpertian from The Brooklyn Game . Enjoy. 1. Andray Blatche. That's right, Andray Blatche is your leader on this week's Power Rankings (by the by, I'll be doing these solely on the events of the past week, because screw you, these are my...
New York Magazine —
We've long argued that J.R. Smith is a walking, jumping embodiment of why some people (wrongly, in our opinion, though this lifelong Illini fan understands somewhat) prefer college basketball to the NBA. Unquestionably talented, Smith has horrible basketball instincts, almost always looks for his own shot, leans almost exclusively on the twenty-foot fadeaway, and, at the worst times, has a...
New York Magazine (Seth Rosenthal) —
I know that headline might make it sound like J.R. Smith made inadequate Mexican food for Victor Cruz, so let's clear things up. Victor Cruz does the salsa when he scores a touchdown. We know this. It's great. What you may or may not have known is that Cruz and Smith are good friends dating back to the years they played A.A.U basketball together. They keep in touch, attend each other's games...
New York Magazine (Will Leitch) —
Considering the Heat just won a championship and the Knicks have won one playoff game in twelve years, it would be quite the stretch to call the two teams "rivals." You can call the old nineties teams rivals, but everyone who played in those games is either dead and/or currently on the Knicks roster. That said: These guys sure seem to run into each other a lot. They've played a lot of...