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Internet enjoys Thunder/Hawks orange jersey fiasco, our eyes not so much
We already knew that the NBA had too many uniforms, but the Thunder took things to a new level on Friday night against the Hawks, wearing different uniforms in each half of their game against Atlanta....
The Derrick Rose trade could work for Knicks, but only if Immanuel Quickley is allowed to grow
Derrick Rose is back in his second home. The New York Knicks re-acquired the former MVP in a deal over the weekend with the Detroit Pistons, confirmed on Monday morning. The Knicks sent a 2021 second-round pick and enigmatic 2017 top-10 draft choice, Dennis Smith Jr., to Detroit....
Dwight Howard comes up on the short end of a call, literally
Tangling in the paint in the second quarter in Detroit, Dwight Howard was called for a foul for getting his arm up in Isaiah Stewart’s face as he tried to box out while Tyrese Maxey got a shot off in the lane....
AN OPEN LETTER TO NEW YORK KNICKS FANS: Take the train to Brooklyn ... ASAP
Dear Knicks fans,...
If we must have sports right now, weird is definitely the way to go
This college football season is an exercise in madness, but it’s continuing to be weirdly historic....
Austin Rivers doesn't understand why people don't want to play for the Knicks
The red carpet rolled out overnight for Anthony Davis, who re-signed with the reigning NBA champs LA Lakers for a whopping five-years, $190 million....
The Knicks baffle fans by continuing to make moves that actually make sense
The Knicks didn’t get Fred VanVleet, who stayed with the Raptors for four years and $85 million....
The Knicks are actually doing things that make sense … so far ...
The path to a successful New York Knicks offseason is so obvious that it worries you. It worries you that regardless of who’s in charge, there’s something about that orange and blue that just leads you to shitsville after a promising start....
Happy 20th to Vince Carter cordially asking Frédéric Weis to please step aside so he could dunk
Frédéric Weis basketball career was eviscerated on this day exactly 20 years ago by none other than Vinsanity. ...
Maybe Fair-Weather Fans Are Actually Good for Sports
Last year, just after the Washington Nationals improbably clinched the NLCS to earn a berth in the World Series, a local news reporter outside of National Park waded into the celebration....
Knicks Held Jordan In Check But Let The Bulls Escape. No, I'm Not Bitter At All
“We had a championship team, we really did,” says former Knicks coach Pat Riley in the book Garden Glory. “We just had the unfortunate experience to come around at a time when Michael Jordan was around.”...
James Dolan & Jeff Wilpon Might Finally Kill Us All
It’s one of the hardest questions to answer for a New York sports fan: Which son of privilege has done a worse job running a franchise and would be worse to work for — James Dolan or Jeff Wilpon?...
Hey, Knicks Fans & New York: Suck It. The Wound Of Michael Jordan Will Never Heal
For all their bravado and noise about being the center of the Earth, what New Yorkers really enjoy most, and are best at, is complaining. And whining. And really that applies to most of the East coast, at least from D.C. on north....
A 10-Part Series Where I Can Watch Jordan Kick My Knicks In The Teeth Again? Nope.
Sunday was a lovely day in New York, and I went with my family to Concrete Plant Park, a narrow little strip of reclaimed industrial land squeezed between the Bronx River and some railroad tracks....
I'll Always Remember Kenny Rogers For His Most Important Work: Making Michael Jordan Look Like The Jerk That he Is
Full disclosure: I grew up in the 1980s as a Knicks fan. Which means I had plenty of reasons to hate Michael Jordan. And I did....
Even Knicks Fans Already Love Tacko Fall
The “We Want Tacos” chant is, oddly, not even all that uncommon at basketball games, given the wide variety of food promotions that exist for when home teams hit certain accomplishments. But at Madison Square Garden, a variation on this chant—the singular form—emerged from a Knicks blowout loss on S...
The Brain-Poisoned Knicks Fan's Case For Frank Ntilikina
Knicks fandom is an identity unto itself—big dummy who likes pain—but it is not one big undifferentiated blob of big dummy. These fans hold a diversity of strong opinions, on players that no healthy person should have to think about any longer than a commercial break. Heading into the new season, t...
Vince Carter Remains Vince Carter, Drains Threes Over Hapless Knicks
If you have not watched a Hawks game on TV lately, you may have missed a number of ESPN graphics reminding you incessantly and in various creative ways that Vince Carter is old, older than his team’s entire roster combined, old enough to be Trae Young’s dad’s dad, so old he played pickup with James ...
It Was Marcus Morris's Turn To Get Ejected From A Knicks-Wizards Preseason Game
Marcus Morris is determined to bring some tenacity back to a moribund Knicks team that still lacks much by way of high-end talent, but could make up some of the difference by playing coherent basketball for the first time in years. Morris got a good start on establishing a certain toughness for this...
Dennis Smith Jr. May Have Fultzed His Shooting Form
Here’s Dennis Smith Jr. taking some free throws which bear the troubling artistic influence of Markelle Fultz. The clip comes from a Redditor who claimed to spot the Knicks point guard at school—judging by the banners, it’s the Manhattan private school Avenues—and some credibility is gained from the...