New York Knicks: Posting and Toasting Blog Articles
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...
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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...
Posting and Toasting (Michael_Zeno) —
New York will host Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama in the World’s Most Famous Arena. Christmas Day just feels empty without the Knicks . Even as the team faded into mediocrity, obscurity, and comedy, the Knicks stayed on Christmas through 2018, when Tim Hardaway Jr and Mario Hezonja were being marketed as the team’s feature talent. Today, the Knicks are as talented as they’ve been in this...
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New York Knicks Captain Jalen Brunson | New York Knicks PR New York held a ceremony to induct JB into the Pantheon of Knicks Captains It was all kind of a joke... until it was not. This whole captain thing doesn’t mean that much in the grand scheme of things, let alone in the full NBA landscape, but it means a lot within the New York Knicks organization . So much so, in fact,...
Posting and Toasting (Russell Richardson) —
Skechers spokesmen Randle and Terance Mann leave mark on Tenement Court In Taguig City this week, Skechers unveiled a new mural on the renowned Tenement basketball court. New York Knicks forward Julius Randle and Los Angeles Clippers guard Terance Mann are featured in the new mural and attended the event as part of a promotional tour with Skechers. While there, Randle and Mann engaged with...
Posting and Toasting (Kento Kato) —
A lot to look forward to. With the Knicks’ preseason schedule pretty much set , it’s time to take a look at a few things to keep an eye on during the exhibition tune-up games that’ll take place during the first two and a half weeks of October. How will Julius Randle look? Between how much the All-NBA forward struggled out the gates last season, and the shoulder surgery he is coming...