New York Knicks: Posting and Toasting Blog Articles
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Photo credit should read KIMBERLY BARTH/AFP via Getty Images Keeping the lights on. Great writers have huddled beneath the Posting and Toasting awning over the years. The only fan letter I ever wrote was an email to Matthew Miranda after one of his recaps turned the summary of a lousy game into a spoof on Shakespeare. My wife was always so puzzled that I could watch a Knicks...
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Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images After 11 years at P&T, I’m stepping away. Because I’m an old square, I still have a Facebook account. A few weeks ago, I received a reminder alert for a post I wrote 11 years ago — my first official article for Posting and Toasting. I had spent the summer of 2012 writing fan posts, trying to one-up fellow poster Paul Chillsap. I emailed the...
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Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Nice nod to Leon Rose & Co. When Pixar’s Soul was available to stream, I watched it with my son. We were enjoying the film until, as society so often has done over the past decades, the movie made a Knicks joke. Normally I would let such slights slide with a grumble. This time, I felt compelled to explain to my five-year old why the joke no longer...
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Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images Should they be? Only recently, articles were written about Jrue’s impending retirement . Would he sunset his career in Milwaukee with the Bucks? Now, in light of his trade to Portland for Damian Lillard, the inevitable scuttlebutt has started: Will the New York Knicks consider trading RJ Barrett for the 33-year-old veteran? The...
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Photo by Ron Hoskins/NBAE via Getty Images His trainer makes a plea. Mitchell Robinson had a busy summer. In July, he and partner Lindsey Luquet announced the birth of their daughter Riley. Since then, in an blantant move to avoid diaper duty, the New York Knicks starting center has spent a lot of time working on his conditioning and practicing in the gym. This week, his...
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Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images The Knicks head coach is excited to see how far his team can go in Year 4 In a Q&A with Steve Aschburner of NBA.com , Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau had some interesting tidbits. The full Q&A is linked below for expanded answers and quotes. Thibs noted that continuity is important, and most of the key Knicks have now been playing together for...
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Photo by Michael J. LeBrecht II/NBAE via Getty Images Strangely positive pundits. Today, Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the Knicks have promoted Gersson Rosas to Senior VP of Basketball Operations. Having served as a team consultant last season, Rosas now officially joins the Knicks circle of power. Before joining the Knicks he was President of Basketball Operations with the...
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Photo by Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images Sweating it out down south. In my mental file for South Carolina, there’s an Archers of Loaf song , fading details about the Battle of Fort Sumter , and a note about palmettos . But, indeed the Knicks practiced there in the nineties—at the College of Charleston—and are returning to the birthplace of barbecue to sweat it out yet again. ...
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Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images The GOAT is 78. Walt “Clyde” Frazier is a staple of New York Knicks games on the MSG Network, broadcasting with outlandish style and endless smiles. Teamed with co-GOAT, Mike “Bang” Breen, Clyde has presided over Knicks games from coast to coast, usually while wearing a ridiculous coat. Check out Clyde So Fly for the goods. ...
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Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Betcha Jalen gets a tech. This upcoming season, you may enjoy your NBA basketball product with less flopping. In a punitive move against the league’s finest thespians, the NBA Board of Governors voted last July to instate an in-game flopping penalty. This week, Monty McCutchen, senior vice president of referee development and training, explained the...
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Photo by Julio Aguilar/2023 Julio Aguilar The 30-year-old sharpshooter is looking for a new jersey to wear at the start of the 2023-24 NBA season After a report from Sham Charania of The Athletic, it would appear Buddy Hield and the Indiana Pacers are looking to part ways. After contract extension negotiations stalled out, Buddy Hield and the Indiana Pacers have started...
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Photo by Barry Williams for NY Daily News via Getty Images Dolan’s mind is one of a kind. James Dolan, owner of the New York Knicks and MSG among many other things out of my financial reach, conceded a very saucy interview to The New York Times ($) on Wednesday, Sept. 20. Saucy and spicy, to say the least. The exchange with the outlet is based around Dolan’s latest investment:...
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Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images Revisionist history lessons. On an episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast airing today , Austin Rivers discussed, among other things, his time in the NBA and his pursuit of another contract. While there, he discussed his brief tenure with the New York Knicks . In November 2020, the Houston Rockets traded Rivers and three other...
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Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Is there a bigger story here? New York Knicks star Julius Randle has parted ways with Creative Artists Agency LLC, better known as CAA. Randle has been a member of CAA since his 2014 rookie year with the Los Angeles Lakers . He now reunites with former CAA agent Andrew Thomas at William Morris Endeavors (WME). Thomas left CAA back in February 2022. In...
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Triumph Books The Knicks’ team historian was 66. Dennis D’Agostino, the New York Knicks ’ team historian and a significant figure on the New York sports scene, has died at 66. The native New Yorker was a public relations member with the Mets and spent 36 seasons with the Knicks as a team historian and writer. Notably, D’Agostino wrote the 2003 book, Garden Glory: An Oral...