New York — Syracuse forward Wes Johnson, a newcomer who helped lead Syracuse to the Big East regular-season title and an overall record of 28-3, has been named Big East Player of the Year by a vote of the league’s head coaches.
His coach, Jim Boeheim was named the Coach of the Year of the Conference.
Lance [...]
Published on: 9th March, 2010
New York – Even though the NBA season for the New York Knickerbockers may have devolved into evaluation mode, with no chance of making the post-season playoffs for the ninth consecutive year, it doesn’t mean their remaining games can’t be entertaining.
Tonight’s game against the playoff-bound Atlanta Hawks provided the sellout crowd at Madison Square Garden [...]
Published on: 7th March, 2010
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Published on: 3rd March, 2010
New York — It was a tale of two teams and of two players at the Garden, tonight. One, the Memphis Grizzlies, struggling for years as an NBA also-ran, is a team on the come. The other, the New York Knicks, is still in the morass of mediocrity the franchise has been stuck in for [...]
Published on: 26th February, 2010
New York — The Knicks continue to struggle to find good guard play this season. Over the course of this year, they have turned to, then benched Larry Hughes (since traded), Nate Robinson (since traded) and Mike D’Antoni favorite, Chris Duhon (buried on the bench without playing a minute since the Knicks acquired Sergio Rodriguez [...]
Published on: 23rd February, 2010
Old Knicks Watch New Knicks Lose AgainNew York –The old Knicks came back to the old Garden tonight to watch the new Knicks play but what they got was the same old, same old.
The Knicks are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the franchise’s first world championship, won in 1970 so out marched some of the great old names from Knicks history. There [...]
Published on: 21st February, 2010
New York – There was actually a New York “happening” tonight in a basketball arena, replete with the type of cheering and tension and excitement not seen in these parts since, well, opposing players like Kobe and LeBron came to town. And, even though the Knickerbockers took it on the chin again, this time at [...]
Published on: 18th February, 2010
Trading Deadline Approaches As Knicks Lose To Bulls AgainKnicks Walsh Remains Coy As Trade Deadline Approaches
New York – These next few hours are crucial to the future of the Knicks, the Madison Square Garden Corporation, and Knicks fans who have loyally supported more than 10 years of putrid basketball in the city that likes to call itself the home of the “city game.” [...]
Published on: 13th February, 2010
Interesting article recently written by Casey Jacobsen, the former sharp-shooting forward from Stanford who also played with Stephon Marbury in Phoenix:
I recently read an article about Stephon Marbury signing a contract to play in China for the remainder of the season and it got me thinking. I hadn’t thought about him much since last summer [...]
Published on: 10th February, 2010
New York – A music critic, after viewing a concert in the early 1970s put on by a young singer from New Jersey became semi-famous for stating the unique observation, “I’ve seen the future of rock and roll, and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” Well, tonight, it would not be a stretch to utter similar [...]