New York Knicks: NY Daily News News Articles
NY Daily News (FRANK ISOLA) —
Amar'e Stoudemire’s agent said the veteran forward is unhappy with the way the season ended for him and the Knicks, but that Stoudemire believes he’ll play a bigger role next year.
NY Daily News (FRANK ISOLA) —
Carmelo Anthony played 12 playoff games with a partially torn left shoulder, the Daily News has learned. An MRI of Anthony's shoulder revealed a partially torn labrum, according to a Knicks source and there is a possibility that Anthony may need surgery.
NY Daily News (Mitch Lawrence) —
The search for the No. 2 star to pair with Carmelo Anthony is not leading the Knicks to Los Angeles, as much as Chris Paul would be Anthony’s perfect wing man. Instead of landing a star talent like Paul, a free agent this summer who once toasted an Anthony-Paul-Amar’e Stoudemire alliance at the Garden, the Knicks will have to set their sights considerably lower.
NY Daily News (PETER BOTTE) —
Knicks GM Glen Grunwald preached "continuity" with the Knicks in his post-mortem address Tuesday, knowing he must be "aggressive and creative" this summer to improve on a season that ended with his built-for-now team being bounced in six games in the Eastern Conference semifinals by Indiana.
NY Daily News (PETER BOTTE) —
Knicks GM Glen Grunwald declined to fire back Tuesday at Jim Boeheim for the longtime Syracuse coach's published comments eviscerating the team assembled around former Orange star Carmelo Anthony.
NY Daily News (Mitch Lawrence) —
The Knicks aren’t good enough to make it up the Canyon of Heroes, not by a confetti-filled mile of lower Broadway. So in lieu of a parade, all they can give you at the end of another championship-less season is a long and painfully slow procession of players, all spouting the company line, all living in a dream world where LeBron James and the Miami Heat do not exist.
NY Daily News (MITCH ABRAMSON) —
If Tyson Chandler had defended Roy Hibbert the way he defended himself on Monday during exit interviews, the Knicks might be booking a flight to Miami. Of all the Knicks to come up small against the Pacers, the biggest culprit may have been the 7-1 Chandler.
NY Daily News (FRANK ISOLA) —
Just as Carmelo Anthony finished his interview with reporters on Monday in Greenburgh and was to about exit the 2012-13 season for good, he stopped briefly to close a different kind of door. “Do you think Chris Paul will re-sign with the Clippers,” he was asked.
NY Daily News (PETER BOTTE, MITCH ABRAMSON) —
J.R. Smith has received an important endorsement to return to the Knicks next season, from longtime teammate Carmelo Anthony.
NY Daily News (Mitch Lawrence) —
The NBA’s Final Four is underway and not surprisingly, the Knicks again didn’t make the cut. Miami-Indiana and San Antonio- Memphis aren’t exactly a TV ratings bonanza, but when you look at the remaining quartet, you can see why the Knicks keep falling short of that elite group.
NY Daily News (Frank Isola) —
Carmelo Anthony sat shirtless and wore ice packs on both knees late Saturday night as he surveyed the losing locker room inside Bankers Life Fieldhouse. From his demeanor and posture right down to the accessories needed to heal his aching body, Anthony resembled Patrick Ewing more than ever after the Knicks’ season ended prematurely against the Indiana Pacers.
NY Daily News (FRANK ISOLA) —
Carmelo Anthony will have his ailing left shoulder re-examined by team doctors to determine the extent of the injury and how to treat it, according to a Knicks official.
NY Daily News (PETER BOTTE) —
A season in which he was praised for maturing into the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year ended with Smith most likely heading toward free agency on the heels of an unsightly shooting slump that was a prime factor in the Knicks getting eliminated by the Pacers in six games in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
NY Daily News (Mitch Lawrence) —
The big playoff showdown they talked about all season with the Miami Heat isn’t coming off, as the Knicks had their season come to a bitter end when they failed to get this series back to the Garden for a Game 7.
NY Daily News (PETER BOTTE, FRANK ISOLA) —
Amar’e Stoudemire knows his contract won’t allow him to go anywhere and he wants Mike Woodson to make a commitment to make a frontcourt of Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony and Tyson Chandler work.