New York Knicks: NY Post News Articles
NY Post (Zach Braziller) —
Jeremy Lin is returning to America, giving the NBA another shot. The former Knick announced the move following a strong season in the Chinese Basketball Association with the Beijing Shougang Ducks. “This decision has really been the hardest in my life,” Lin told his seven million followers in Mandarin in a tear-filled video on Weibo....
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
The Knicks are back. It’s the first organized team activity since March 11 when the Knicks won in overtime in Atlanta before the pandemic shut down the league. Last month the NBA granted “The Delete 8’’ — teams not included in the July restart — this opportunity. According to a league source familiar with the...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
Kevin Durant insisted again that as his last season in Golden State wore on, he wanted no part of the Knicks’ spotlight. Too bad former Knicks president Steve Mills didn’t anticipate that as he traded Kristaps Porzingis to Dallas in late January of the 2018-19 season to clear cap room for KD and a star...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
Friday is the six-month mark of the Knicks’ last regular-season game. With the draft being pushed back from Oct. 16 to mid-November, league sources told The Post that the season opener will almost certainly be pushed back until after Jan. 1 – with no consensus on even the month. According to a source, some league...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
More than six years after Phil Jackson never met with him to discuss the possibility of coaching the triangle, Mike Woodson is officially back with the Knicks. The Knicks finally announced the rest of their coaching staff under Tom Thibodeau with Woodson, Utah’s Johnnie Bryant, Andy Greer and Dice Yoshimoto being officially named. The Knicks...
NY Post (Zach Braziller) —
The news, that Steve Nash had become the Nets’ new coach came as a surprise to most observers. Few knew he was even in the mix, let alone interested in coaching. Rowan Barrett wasn’t part of that majority. Since he met Nash at the age of 16, he has seen coaching qualities in the terrific...
NY Post (Howie Kussoy) —
Jazz assistant Johnnie Bryant is joining the Knicks as an associate coach. Don’t bank on Donovan Mitchell coming home to New York with him. Following an incredible performance in Utah’s seven-game first-round series loss to the Nuggets, Mitchell, who shares a close relationship with Bryant, is set to finalize a max extension — worth roughly...
NY Post (Zach Braziller) —
Patrick Ewing, the former Knicks star and current Georgetown coach, was one of many big names to have contracted the novel coronavirus. He didn’t just have symptoms of the virus — he also suffered a blood clot as the result of it in May. “It was rough,” he told CNN. “In the hospital for five...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
Knicks owner James Dolan has another chief adviser as MSG Sports hired David Hopkinson on Monday to oversee its sports properties. In a press release, the Garden said Hopkinson has “more than 25 years of diverse sports industry experience.” He was named executive vice president of MSG Sports in charge of its “strategic vision” and...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
Sorry Leon Rose, Tom Thibodeau and Mike Woodson. Carmelo Anthony’s first choice is returning to Portland. Following the Blazers’ first-round elimination late Saturday night against the Lakers, the 36-year-old Anthony emphatically stated he wanted to return to the franchise that “revived” his dead career. “I pray that it could be Portland,” Anthony said on Zoom....
NY Post (Julia Marsh) —
Madison Square Garden, which has been dark since March due to the pandemic, has found a new use for itself — Election Day polling site. “Madison Square Garden is excited to support our community by partnering with NYC Board of Elections to serve as a polling site for residents to exercise their right to vote...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
Tom Thibodeau will have at least two guys on his assistant staff with whom he’s worked closely. While the hirings of Kenny Payne, Johnnie Bryant and Mike Woodson had been cemented, Thibodeau will also add his longtime trusted lieutenants, Andy Greer and Dice Yoshimoto, sources confirm. The Post first reported Greer and Yoshimoto as candidates...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Knicks. Why do so many NBA players hate the Knicks? They all celebrated when we fell to the eighth draft...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
He’s not a scoring point guard, he’s not even a good shooter. But he’s got a reputation for being a winner and defender — and that might be what the moribund Knicks need with their No. 8 draft pick. According to an NBA source, Auburn’s 6-foot-6 small forward Isaac Okoro has support among Knicks brass...
NY Post (Mike Vaccaro) —
The Knicks have had as good an offseason as a franchise mired in a 20-year slump can have. They hired the best man available for their open coaching job in Tom Thibodeau. They have made a slew of excellent hires to flush out his staff and the front office, notably assistant coaches Kenny Payne and...