NEW YORK — After 25 games, at 19-6, we can stop wondering if the Knicks are good enough to host a first-round playoff series. Knicks fans should start thinking much bigger than that, because the ‘Bockers haven’t been this good in a long, long time. [Read more…]
NEW YORK — It’s a good thing that the New York Knicks have already proven that they can win without Carmelo Anthony, because they may have to do just that. [Read more…]
NEW YORK — The last time the New York Knicks won 16 of their first 21 games, it was 1995. A gallon of gas cost $1.13, and President Bill Clinton was finishing up his first term and eyeing a second. Now, 16 long years later, the Knicks find themselves amongst the NBA’s top teams. Dare we start to think of them as “elite?” [Read more…]
The New York Knicks remain the NBA’s lone unbeaten team at home and are going to be sleeping in their own beds for a while. Leading the Eastern Conference with a 15-5 mark, the Knicks travel across the East River tonight for a meeting with the Brooklyn Nets – which is pretty much a home game, based on the fan support they had in their first visit to the Barclays Center. [Read more…]
NEW YORK — With five seconds remaining in the game and his Indiana Pacers clinging to a 97-95 lead, Mark Jackson saw his former running mate, Patrick Ewing—a man Jackson once dished dimes to as if it were his personal duty—miss a finger-roll that would have forced overtime. And like that, the New York Knicks saw their 1994-1995 NBA season end. Way back then, Jackson was a paradox. A son of New York City, but a demon to its fans. [Read more…]
NEW YORK — “It’s gonna be a minute, guys, my hand is messed up.” That’s what Raymond Felton said as he glanced over toward me after the Knicks’ 106-99 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Sunday. Those weren’t the first words anyone expected to hear from Felton, considered he turned in arguably his best game of the season. [Read more…]
After watching the New York Knicks win eight of their first 10 games, you can rest assured: These ain’t Jeremy Lin’s Knicks. Yes, that’s a good thing. And I am not the only one saying so. On Friday night, when the Knicks take on Lin and James Harden in Houston, we’ll be reminded of the fact that James Dolan ultimately decided to let Lin walk, for free, to the Houston Rockets. The decision to let such a valuable asset walk, for nothing,
After a 104-100 road victory Thursday over the San Antonio Spurs – a game they had no business winning – it is safe to say that the New York Knicks have officially put the rest of the NBA on notice. They mean business. It is a bit premature for Knicks fans to start reserving spots along the Canyon of Heroes, but if any member of the national media tries to take anything away from the Knicks’ improbable comeback against the best team