New York Knicks: Posting and Toasting Blog Articles
Posting and Toasting (Antonio Losada) —
SLAM | Antonio Losada illustration | SLAM | Antonio Losada “What if...?” As ridiculous as it sounds, SLAM didn’t give the greatest Knicks player of the past 40 years any real credit—in terms of printed real estate—until the final months of the 1999 season (the Knicks had yet to make that year’s Finals by the time ish No. 29 went to press.) Yes, Patrick Ewing got a super early...
Posting and Toasting (Michael_Zeno) —
A schedule is just a list of games. What makes the matchups desirable and important comes down to the narratives behind them. Yesterday, after a few days of gradual leaks, the full 82-game NBA schedule was released for all 30 teams. Well, I guess it’s really 80 until the results of the NBA Cup. Hopefully, the Knicks don’t get screwed by the circumstances of the tournament again . ...
Posting and Toasting (Andrew Polaniecki) —
When Ron Burgundy found a Rose in the Junkyard If the last segment of WWIB between Julius Randle and Bernard King wasn’t riveting enough for you, hold on to your knickers for this week’s segment of WWIB #31. As promised last week, #31 presents quite the matchup of biblical proportions featuring Jerome Williams, Malik Rose, and none other than Ron Burgundy himself, Ron Baker. Giving it...
Posting and Toasting (Kento Kato) —
While many of us knew about the marquee matchups on opening night, and Christmas Day, we didn’t know what the rest of the schedule looked like. Until today that is. At 3 PM ET, NBA fans rejoiced as the long-awaited regular season schedule was finally released . As reported a few days ago, the Knicks will take on the Celtics in Boston on opening night. This should be a highly...
Posting and Toasting (Russell Richardson) —
John Hollinger calls him a “last-resort option.” Yesterday, John Hollinger of The Athletic wrote a summary article about this year’s Olympic basketball. Tucked in his piece was this note: “The New York Knicks own the rights to Mathias Lessort, the athletic French forward who had a solid tournament and is signed with Greece’s Panathinaikos for the coming season. Lessort can’t shoot,...
Posting and Toasting (Antonio Losada) —
Good and bad news on New York’s injury front. It’s not that we were overly worried about the recovery timelines of all injured New York Knicks players, but a report published by SNY’s Ian Begley on August 14 gave us promising news about the anticipated return of Julius Randle and Mitchell Robinson to the court next season. Begley also discussed Jalen Brunson’s left-hand surgery,...
Posting and Toasting (Kento Kato) —
The younger Toppin gets the final deal up for grabs. The Knicks have finally made another (and final, for now) move. But it’s not the move that fans might’ve been hoping for. For over a month, the Knicks have been looking for another big man to help round out their roster and fans have, in the meantime, been busy concocting an impressive amount of hypothetical trades. But they’ll likely...
Posting and Toasting (Antonio Losada) —
The former New York Knicks legend can’t be happier about his Olympic accolades. Remember former New York Knicks wing and Team USA legend Carmelo Anthony? Well, turns out the blossoming podcaster known as Melo would rather keep their three gold medals instead of flipping those for an alternative career path in which he would have won an NBA championship. That’s what Anthony told Donatas...
Posting and Toasting (Antonio Losada) —
New York will visit the Sixers and the Hornets while hosting the Nets and the Magic. The NBA released the full schedule for the 2024 Emirates NBA Cup aka In-Season Tournament aka Early-Season Fake-High-Stakes Thingie on August 13, including the four group-stage games to be played by the New York Knicks . Those matchups, considering the Knicks were drawn into East Group A, will see New York...
Posting and Toasting (Antonio Losada) —
SLAM | Antonio Losada illustration | SLAM | Antonio Losada “State of Mind” See, this thing got started with Anthony Bennett’s name getting called first from the podium, so it’s not that we can blame anyone for making the wrong draft pick in the summer of 2013, can we? At the end of the day, the Knicks landed Tim Hardaway Jr. with a late first-round pick (No. 24), and by the time...
Posting and Toasting (Michael_Zeno) —
If Randle tells Leon Rose that he is willing to sign this offseason, will the benefits outweigh the potential downside? Julius Randle became eligible for his contract extension last week. Unlike with newly minted captain Jalen Brunson’s extension, where he signed the day that he was eligible, Randle’s might be drawn out. There has been a bunch of commentary on these talks, from ESPN saying...
Posting and Toasting (Kento Kato) —
A fun way to start the season! While the schedule for the 2024-25 NBA regular season has yet to be released, we have finally started to get rumors of some of the matchups on key dates. We heard last week that the Knicks would be hosting Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs on Christmas Day. And two days after Team USA won gold in Paris, we have reports pitting the New York...
Posting and Toasting (Antonio Losada) —
SLAM | Antonio Losada illustration | SLAM | Antonio Losada “Starks’ Reality. Clank” It took them a minute—ten months, actually—but New York placed a Knicks player on the cover of SLAM just four issues into the magazine’s history. Launched in May 1994, John Starks graced the cover of ish No. 4 nearly a year later in March 1995. Starks was the first player to get an actual...
Posting and Toasting (Russell Richardson) —
The NBA’s new media deal could test the 10% threshold. At The Athletic today, Mike Vorkunov broke down the NBA media deal’s impact on CBA and the teams of the Association. The NBA is poised for a significant financial boost with its upcoming media rights deal, which will more than double the annual revenue the league receives from its media partners. We covered it, and TNT’s related...
Posting and Toasting (Matthew Miranda) —
Excitement and unknows for the upcoming season! It’s been a while. Let’s dig in. Can Julius play the 5 effectively? Will Thibs use it if so? — rf5 Here’s Randle’s career breakdown of minutes played at the 4 and the 5. You can see the Lakers played him at center a lot, though they sucked when they did, so who knows what to make of that. His years playing for Tom Thibodeau feature...