NEW YORK — The Knicks came out winners again Friday in the arbitration case involving Jeremy Lin and Steve Novak’s free agency after the NBA and the players’ union reached a settlement and the league dropped its appeal of arbitrator Kenneth Dam’s ruling. Lin and Novak, who were acquired by New York through waiver claims, will have “Early Bird” rights that will allow the Knicks to exceed the salary cap to re-sign them. In essence, it means New York can use its
// There is an unemployed coach out there with 11 championship rings who has a soft spot in his heart for the New York Knicks and Madison Square Garden. And at the very least, the Knicks and their owner, Jim Dolan, owe it to their fans to pick up the phone and make an exploratory call to Phil Jackson’s representatives to ask if he’d be interested in taking the job. SheridanHoops.com columnist Mark Heisler sat down for lunch with Jackson a couple
The longest current winning streak in the NBA (six games) belongs to a team that is on the outside looking in when it comes to the playoff race. The second-longest current winning streak is four games, shared by three teams — two of which are trying to qualify for the postseason. With five weeks left in the regular season, after a night on which the Lakers, Clippers and Thunder all lost and the Heat needed a big fourth-quarter comeback, it’s looking
NEW YORK — There is word out there this morning that federal mediator George Cohen might be asked to re-join the NBA collective bargaining talks to guide these blind men to the finish line. So while we await word on that, let’s all chew on this. From Marc Berman of the New York Post: “(Jim) Dolan, part of the owners’ negotiating committee, is content about one of the agreed-upon aspects of a new collective bargaining agreement: the size of the salary cap will