New York Knicks: NY Post News Articles
NY Post (Fred Kerber) —
Time is a four-letter word. But so are talk and hope. While Carmelo Anthony apparently doesn’t want to talk about extending his stay with the Knicks, who feel time is on their side, another team, Portland, emerged with hope of landing the 10-time All-Star. Anthony apparently would prefer to be a Houston Rocket last week,...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
While former Cavaliers boss David Griffin said he didn’t want the Knicks’ general manager job partly because he wasn’t clear whether he could bring in new blood to the front office, team president Steve Mills said emphatically his new hire Scott Perry will have leeway to tinker where needed. Mills said the goal is to...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
One day after the Knicks new management team stated Carmelo Anthony could potentially return, it appears Anthony still has no desire to talk with Knicks president Steve Mills and new general manager Scott Perry about that possibility. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on a SportsCenter appearance, Anthony “has made it clear to [the Knicks]: I...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
New Knicks GM Scott Perry has worked for four prior NBA franchises, but there’s one professional sports entity dearest to his heart. According to a source, Perry is a proud member of Steeler Nation. Perry takes immense pride in his father, Lowell Perry, an NFL pioneer – the first black assistant coach since World War...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
Steve Mills wants his new hire Scott Perry to fight for moves he believes in, but ultimately the final decision will be made by the president, not the general manager. “I’m going to give Scott the room to make basketball decisions and make recommendations to me,’’ Mills said at Monday’s press conference to formally announce...
NY Post (Fred Kerber) —
Wait a minute. What was going on here? Jeff Hornacek was talking in Westchester on Monday about the Knicks style, and the word “triangle” never was used? By anybody. Guess change really is in the air around the Knicks. So Hornacek spoke more about “defense” than geometric figures. Defense. It’s enough to bring the old...
NY Post (Fred Kerber) —
There were promises of hard work and development and cooperation. And there were no grandiose promises of titles, no sickening arrogance when résumés were rubbed in everyone’s face and definitely no follow-up tweets that an ancient languages expert would have trouble deciphering. And during the Knicks’ press conference at their Westchester practice facility, where Steve...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
Knicks new president Steve Mills didn’t take a lie detector test, but he vowed he would have drafted point guard Frank Ntilikina with the eighth pick if he had final say. Sources have told The Post Phil Jackson and his top adviser, Clarence Gaines Jr., were hot and heavy for the 18-year-old Frenchman. Ntilikina didn’t...
NY Post (Post Sports Desk) —
There will be no buyout for Carmelo Anthony. During a Tarrytown press conference to introduce Scott Perry as the new GM and Steve Mills as the new team president, the new Knicks braintrust signaled that a trade of Anthony, the fading star, is not a certainty, but would be his only way off the team....
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
Perhaps it was just the usual press-release rhetoric from owner James Dolan when he announced Steve Mills as president and Scott Perry as general manager Friday, but there seemed a series of digs aimed at the departed Phil Jackson. Almost mimicking Jackson’s press conference from three years, four months ago, Dolan stated that “today marks...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
Portlandia, anyone? Trail Blazers guard C.J. McCollum is the latest attempting to sway Carmelo Anthony, posting an Instagram picture Sunday of the Knicks forward in a Blazers uniform, a week after a Rockets player used the same method to recruit Anthony. The Post has reported the Knicks’ new hierarchy of Steve Mills and Scott Perry...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
Former Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy still lives in Houston and has a good read on that franchise. And Van Gundy, recently named a Team USA coach for the Americas Tournament and World Cup qualifiers, isn’t sure Carmelo Anthony is “a natural fit” for a Houston team trying to dethrone the Warriors. In Las Vegas...
NY Post (Steve Serby) —
Guard Tim Hardaway Jr., reacquired by the Knicks after two seasons in Atlanta, takes a shot at some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: How much did Phil Jackson’s criticism of you when he traded you to the Hawks in 2015 motivate you? A: It motivated me big-time. Then when I went down to...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
The tandem of president Steve Mills and general manager Scott Perry heading the Knicks front office is expected to be kinder, gentler and friendlier. According to sources, the duo will be a lot more available to the media. While Phil Jackson set his own media policy, which especially last season was to avoid the local...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
It started to come crashing down three days before the start of the 2013-14 training camp. The Knicks were coming off the Eastern Conference’s second seed and a 54-28 record. General manager Glen Grunwald had put the final touches on a roster everyone thought would compete for the Eastern Conference title. And suddenly, owner James...