New York Knicks: News Articles
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
The Knicks’ list of eight interviewees could expand, but there will be no interview with Villanova stud coach Jay Wright. According to an NBA source, the Knicks will not speak to Wright to conclude an exhaustive coaching search that has now taken them to Europe for David Blatt. But the search won’t take Knicks president...
Newsday —
After watching the 76ers close out their series with a 104-91 win over the Heat, it is hard not to consider them among the class of the East and even wonder if they have enough to make it to the NBA Finals.
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
Kenny Smith may be a long-shot candidate for the Knicks’ coaching job, but he doesn’t sound like one — saying he believes he’s “ready’’ to leave Charles Barkley and run the Knicks. The TNT broadcasting mainstay, who won two NBA titles as a Rockets point guard, said his Knicks interview Friday was “fun,’’ and that...
NY Daily News (Stefan Bondy) —
Who needs coaching experience? Kenny Smith believes his lengthy time on television makes him qualified to lead the Knicks.
NY Post (Brian Lewis) —
The Nets are adding to their coaching staff, with The Post learning ex-Knick Pablo Prigioni will join the group. He will aid in development, especially helping to groom a glut of young point guards who will be key in their rebuilding process. The Knicks also had interest in hiring Prigioni, who spent 2012-15 in the...
NY Post (Fred Kerber) —
All indications are Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer wants the Knicks. And according to a random sampling of NBA scouts and executives, the feeling should be mutual. “He’d be good there,” said one Western Conference scout. “I’m just looking at the [reported] list of the people they’ve talked to, he would have to be at the...
NY Daily News (Frank Isola) —
Connections to Kawhi Leonard, Tim Hardaway Jr., and Josh Longstaff could all factor into Mike Budenholzer becoming Knicks head coach.
Newsday —
The Knicks are searching far and wide for their next coach.
NY Daily News (Stefan Bondy) —
Mark Jackson got an endorsement for the Knicks job by an unlikely source: Brian Scalabrine.
NY Post (Zach Braziller) —
It’s uncertain where Joakim Noah’s NBA career goes from here, but his beard game isn’t past its prime. The exiled Knicks forward checked in from the wilderness somewhere, sporting a blond beard and wavy long hair, without his preferred ponytail. The two-time All-Star is almost recognizable from the player who has spent 11 seasons in...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
Larry Brown, the Hall of Famer and ex-Knicks coach from Long Beach, has read the list of the team’s coaching candidates and can’t think of anyone whose credentials top Mike Woodson’s. Brown, Woodson and Knicks general manager Scott Perry were together in Detroit in the early 2000s during glorious times for the Pistons. Perry was...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
Mike Budenholzer is genuinely interested in the Knicks’ job, according to an NBA source who has spoken to the Hawks coach. “New York’s his top choice,’’ the NBA source said. “If they offered him the job, he’d say yes. He wants to live in New York.’’ Moreover, Budenholzer appears so disillusioned with the current Hawks’...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
The unseemly details of former Cavaliers coach David Blatt’s sour relationship with LeBron James in Cleveland were spelled out in a recent book, “Return of The King.’’ In an interview published Saturday in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and translated from Hebrew, Blatt declined to talk about the book but admitted he didn’t “realize my potential’’...
NY Post (Marc Berman) —
Former Knick David Lee doesn’t want a piece of Donovan Mitchell’s potential Rookie of the Year Award, but he wouldn’t turn down a piece of his next contract. Lee, soon heading off to the French Open with his fiancée, Caroline Wozniacki, recalled Mitchell attended his annual kids camp in Chappaqua for four straight years and...
Newsday —
Add Atlanta Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer to the list of candidates the Knicks will interview for their vacancy.