Porzingis said he’s played five-on-five with no-longer rehabbing Carmelo Anthony at Anthony’s new gym in Manhattan. The games have also included Knicks’ Jose Calderon, Langston Galloway, Jerian Grant, Thanasis Antetokounmpo and area college players.

Kristaps Porzingis attended the night session of the U.S. Open Sunday and looked noticeably broader than he did during the Las Vegas summer league.
The Post reported Monday the 7-foot-3 Porzingis has put on 11 pounds since returning from Latvia to train with the Knicks staff in late July. The Knicks drafted Porzingis fourth overall in last spring’s NBA draft.

“It’s the upper body,’’ Porzingis told The Post. “Guys can’t push me around that easy, and I still got time to get a little stronger. I can’t wait for training camp.’’
Porzingis confirmed he’s put on “five kilos’’ since late July — equivalent to 11 pounds. “I’m working out twice a day, lifting hard, trying to eat as much as possible to gain weight, getting my sleep, doing the right things to gain weight. I’m getting stronger and I’m feeling stronger playing in five-on-five pickup. Definitely feeling stronger.’’

Porzingis said he’s played five-on-five with no-longer-rehabbing Carmelo Anthony at Anthony’s new gym in Manhattan. The games have also included Knicks’ Jose Calderon, Langston Galloway, Jerian Grant, Thanasis Antetokounmpo and area college players.

The Knicks open training camp in late September at their Tarrytown facility, according to a source. Last fall they trained at West Point and it began a 17-win season.

earthmansurfer wrote:I would love to hear something about those games. A video would be great! eheheh

It don't happen if there is no video!

yellowboy90 wrote:Still doesn't negate the fact that CA didn't bring his pom poms to Vegas.

CrushAlot wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:Still doesn't negate the fact that CA didn't bring his pom poms to Vegas.

Yep. I bet if you started a thread about that it would go for at least 13 pages.

You guys are deceiving yourselves if you don't think Anthony took another look at things after the post-draft and SL criticisms, and it had little to do with what we little folk were writing around here.

Anthony is savvy enough to know that his "brand" took a hit, and he's made a great, and I think successful, effort to change the way people perceive him, but to think that the reported stories were invented by the media, which many of you seem to believe, is a sign of self-deceptive revisionism.

Accept, and enjoy, the fact that Anthony has been showing us some leadership in recent weeks, but folks shouldn't deny the things he has, or has not, done in the past because they want to see him in an untarnished light. The guy is flawed, but he has been doing the right thing recently.

Revel in the present...but don't deny the past.

Next step for him is to show some changes on the court- if that happens, you will see an entirely different attitude from folks like myself.

Hopefully he takes that next step.

Melo in Vegas is some how the litmus test he failed? How? Show support by creating a media event?