Julius Randle Has Arrived
The marriage between Julius Randle and Tom Thibodeau gets an A+. Randle is playing like an All-Star and Thibs has changed the culture.
The marriage between Julius Randle and Tom Thibodeau gets an A+. Randle is playing like an All-Star and Thibs has changed the culture.
Another year. Another lottery appearance for the Knicks, Cavs and Hornets who lack offensive talent, cohesion, leadership and experience.
RJ Barrett will break the 32 year Rookie of the Year New York Knicks drought
Once again, the New York Knicks are starting from scratch as their newly hired head coach, David Fizdale, is about to embark on the most important job of his career. Coaching the Knicks, regardless of the state of the roster and the projections and who and what they don’t have still makes the earth turn. …
The predictable became the reality when the Knicks gave their Jeff Hornacek experiment the heave-ho and ushered him out the door for (perhaps) another offensive minded, defensively challenged, ex-player coach. The firing of Hornacek made perfect sense when you consider how the NBA functions these days. If you are going to be bad- the Knicks…
In some alternative universe the rest of us are excluded from, the Knicks thought they were going to make the playoffs as the 8th seed with Kristaps Porzingis leading the way. Those of us who know better and remember Bernard King knew something was lurking around the corner to mess it up. Not a curse.…
Last season, only three NBA teams made over $100 million dollars, according to Forbes. One of those teams were the NBA champ Warriors. The other two didn’t make the playoffs. The Lakers annually gross $150 million from their television contract, almost ten times the amount of small market teams. The Knicks rake in telelvision profits…
Run DMC, 50 Cent, Notorious B.I.G, and Kristaps Porzingis are all millionaires who have called New York their home during their heyday. The latter entry on that list has a lot to prove in his early career, but much like his New York counterparts, Kristaps Porzingis hasn’t gotten this far on his own. Born August…
“I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.” Carmelo Anthony. Carmelo wants to go to the Houston Rockets. He wants to be the third option to Chris Paul and James Harden; he yearns to be Chris Bosh. Give Melo some credit for self-awareness and…
If New York City likes one thing over all things it is toughness. They will take tough over glamour. When Pat Riley came to New York from Los Angeles, he shed his glamorous past and created bully basketball with Charles Oakley and Anthony Mason. The league hated it but the city felt redeemed. Come into…