By third game of the season, the fanbase had seen enough. The question is, has David Fizdale seen enough out of Dennis Smith Jr.? It doesn’t sound like he has. “We’re three games in,” he said in regards to Smith Jr., who had yet another troubling performance (0 for 3, scoreless in 11:21). “It’s not […]
The rivalry felt real, then it felt really frustrating. The Knicks, self-appointed underdogs in a city some say is now up for grabs about its basketball teams, had the chance to draw first blood. Instead, they suffered from self-inflicted wounds. Poor interior play, missed free throws and too many empty possessions down the stretch allowed […]
Julius Randle looked up from a third loss in the four-game preseason, one that ended in defeat after his hero-ball game-winning attempt from three missed the mark, and assessed life, so far, with the Knicks. “We’re building,” he said. “We’re just going to have to have patience . . . It’s going to take time, […]
Let me share with you a secret: I was invited by the NBA to be a witness to the NBA Draft Lottery drawing this year in Chicago. And I respectfully declined. There’s no way my heart could take it. I also could not guarantee there wouldn’t be a Braveheart roar if the Knicks happened to […]
The Knicks have been eliminated from the playoffs for about a month or so, but they’ll play in an elimination game on tonight. David Fizdale took the last seven games of the regular season and told his team to treat it like a playoff series. So “Game 7” is against the Detroit Pistons at The […]
The reports about Mario Hezonja leading into the NBA Draft described an athletic player who stood out in the European game as a scorer off the bench in the ACB league in Spain. He’d been playing pro in Croatia at the age of 14. The NBA seemed inevitable and yet when he got to Orlando […]
There is video that surfaced on social media of Mitchell Robinson the night before his 21st birthday. He was up late and out. He was downtown, in fact, and doing things you just don’t expect him to do. He was shooting threes. Where else would Mitchell Robinson be on the eve of his birthday (literally […]
The Knicks best defensive player is a 20-year-old rookie who is still learning the pro game. And when asked to assess the team’s issues on defense, especially in defending the three-point shot, he put it in the most elementary terms. “We be there,” Mitchell Robinson said, “we just don’t be close enough.” One of Mark […]
Doc Rivers just shared the secret to his team’s success this season and it’s a simple formula. The better the talent you have, the better the coach you are. Even after trading away their top player, Tobias Harris, and clearing salary cap space for free agency, the Clippers have stayed in the Western Conference playoff […]