New York Knicks: NY Daily News News Articles
NY Daily News (Bob Raissman) —
James ( Guitar Jimmy ) Dolan should hope Knicks players believe Mike Woodson more than Stephen A Smith does. Then again, in a lame attempt to discredit opposing viewpoints, it was Dolan’s lackeys who wanted the coach to spin/lie the organization out of an embarrassing situation.
NY Daily News —
Point guard George Hill will be a game-time decision as the Pacers try to close out the Knicks. After Indiana’s shootaround Saturday morning, coach Frank Vogel did not say whether Hill had passed his concussion tests.
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, back in 1994. Patrick scored 24 points in that game, had 22 rebounds, 7 assists and 5 blocks, made the put-back — of a J.L.
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 a conference call Friday.
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, whether to go big or small and now this: the emergence of Chris Copeland.
NY Daily News (Mike Lupica) —
All night long you kept looking at the scoreboard after the Pacers had missed another free throw or made another turnover, and kept expecting to see the Knicks up by more than they were on the night when they were playing for their season. But they were not.
NY Daily News (PETER BOTTE) —
Chris Copeland has known his place on the veteran-laden Knicks throughout his long-awaited first NBA season. The dreadlocked 29-year-old rookie carries around a reminder of that status every day — a pink Disney princesses backpack.
NY Daily News (MITCH ABRAMSON) —
J.R. Smith played a solid, even-keeled game Thursday night against the Pacers at the Garden, scoring 13 points with six rebounds and three steals in an 85-75 victory that kept the Knicks’ season alive in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
NY Daily News (Mitch Lawrence) —
An elbow from Game 4 out in Indianapolis went a long way toward getting the Knicks back to the Circle City for one more basketball game on Saturday. Tyson Chandler threw it, George Hill caught it with his noggin and the Knicks used Hill’s absence on Thursday night to get a season-saving, 85-75 victory at the Garden.
NY Daily News (MITCH ABRAMSON, PETER BOTTE, FRANK ISOLA) —
Mike Woodson left no doubt that he was in full “win-or-go home” mode in Thursday’s elimination-avoiding Game 5 victory over Indiana. Woodson benched two of his most accomplished players, returning big man Amar’e Stoudemire and slumping guard Jason Kidd, for the entire second half of the Knicks’ 85-75 win at the Garden.
NY Daily News (FRANK ISOLA) —
Kurt Thomas is undecided about whether to regain his title as the NBA’s oldest player next season. Thomas is recovering from right foot surgery and is two weeks from being off crutches. The 40-year-old is a free agent after the Knicks released him last month in order to add a player to the postseason roster.
NY Daily News (FRANK ISOLA) —
Desperate times call for desperate measures and with the Knicks on the brink of elimination, Mike Woodson redeemed himself from his brain freeze in Game 4 by pushing all the right buttons in the Knicks' 85-75 Game 5 victory.
NY Daily News (PETER BOTTE, LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT) —
A comment posted from her Instagram account claimed that the New York Knicks player’s form on the court has suffered because “his ass be hungover from clubbing every night during playoffs.”
NY Daily News (PETER BOTTE) —
As Mike Woodson spoke to the media Thursday morning, his back literally was up against a wall. Yes, that moment has arrived for the Knicks, as they face elimination Thursday night at the Garden for the first time, trailing the Pacers 3-1 in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
NY Daily News (Bob Raissman) —
The Gulag playbook is never hard to decipher. It often reads like a comic book. The latest chapter went something like this: Knicks get drilled by Indiana Tuesday night to go down 3-1 in the series. They are getting fried in a variety of media precincts, including the Valley of the Stupid.