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David Stern Has James Dolan's Back Too
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has already announced his support for Knicks owner James Dolan, who responded to a letter from an angry 72-year-old fan by telling him he should "try sobriety" and start rooting for the Nets. Silver said that was just Dolan being "a consummate New Yorker," which, as a Ne...
NBA Backs Dolan, Says Knicks CEO "Is A Consummate New Yorker"
The NBA won't discipline Knicks chairman & CEO James Dolan for his ridiculous email response to a longtime fan, with commissioner Adam Silver claiming the Cablevision magnate "is a consummate New Yorker" who "got an unkind email, and responded with an unkind email."...
Spend A Whole Mess Of Time With This Great Map Of NYC Basketball
In advance of All-Star Weekend, NBA.com has put together this interactive map of the history of New York basketball. ...
Dolan: "Start Rooting For The Nets Because The Knicks Don't Want You"
New York Knicks and Cablevision CEO James Dolan lashed out at a lifelong fan over email, suggesting the fan was an alcoholic who should start rooting for the Nets "because the Knicks don't want you."...
Face Punched Hard
This is Philadelphia's Ryan White moving the Islanders' Matt Martin's nose a few centimeters to the right in their first-period fight last night....
Phil Jackson Is Full Of Crap Ideas About Basketball
Guys, Phil Jackson might be kind of dumb....
Rex Ryan Has Tattoo Of Wife Wearing Jets Jersey Darkened To Bills Blue
Remember that tattoo Rex Ryan got of his wife wearing a Mark Sanchez jersey? That's a pretty embarrassing tattoo to have if you're the newly hired head coach of their division rival Buffalo Bills, so on Friday he rectified the situation. Via the Wall Street Journal:...
J.R. Smith: I'm Better Now Because I Can't Really Party In Cleveland
J.R. Smith has been pretty good since joining the Cleveland Cavaliers, scoring 14 points per game and shooting 37 percent from behind the arc. While playing for the Knicks during the first chunk of the season, Smith was scoring just 10 points per game and shooting 35 percent from behind the arc. Acc...
Did TV's Go-To Ball Boy Expert On Ballghazi Inflate His Credentials?
Eric Kester may be the only guy who's come out ahead from Ballghazi so far....
Tinder Girl's Icebreaker: I Fucked Odell Beckham Jr.
Well, if you match with Stephanie, you'll immediately have a way to start the conversation....
Basketball Is Dead. The Knicks And Sixers Murdered It.
All the precious, fragile, bitterly-won gains of humankind's wretched, fitful, brave, millennia-long upward struggle went up in white-hot magnesium flames last night in Philadelphia and burned away to powder. All for nothing. All fantasies, every damn one. The Knicks and Sixers have shown us ours...
The Time A Jets Kicker Smacked A Ball Boy For Not Rubbing Up The Balls
Since all anyone can talk about today is the various ways in which people manipulate footballs and what dastardly cheaters the New England Patriots are, it seems like as good a time as any to remember the time a mouthy Patriots ball boy got the shit smacked out of him by an opposing kicker for not p...
A-Rod Turns To Unlikely Source To Assist His Comeback: Barry Bonds
At 39 and having missed the entire 2014 season due to suspension, Alex Rodriguez is attempting an improbable comeback. His skills were already rapidly declining in 2013—in 44 games he posted his lowest batting average and slugging percentage since 1995, and his fielding has been getting worse for ...
Mets Owner To Run MLB's Finance Committee
Incoming commissioner Rob Manfred has begun swinging the ax, installing his preferred owners in positions of power and shunting Bud Selig's confidants to the side. But one of those Selig allies, Mets owner and CEO Fred Wilpon, isn't just being put out to pasture: he's been appointed chairman of MLB'...
Funkmaster Flex Ethers Jay Z In Epic, Endless, Bomb-Laden Rant
DJ Funkmaster Flex—one of NYC's premier hip-hop DJs, putting in work at radio-station oracle HOT 97 for more than 20 years now—was in inspired, incessantly bomb-dropping form last night, unloading a rambling, 10-minutes-plus diatribe against everyone and everything surrounding Jay Z....
Are The Mets Charging Players To Attend Offseason Workouts?
The Mets are currently holding offseason workouts in Port St. Lucie, Fla., and based on some chatter coming from reporters who are at the camp and local beat writers, the Mets are running some bullshit....
No Pressure, Though
The Jets have chosen their next head coach, former Cardinals defensive coordinator Todd Bowles. He may or may not be the right man for the job, but he's sure as hell got the right name for it....