Published on: 10th February, 2011
New York – What started out for the Knicks and their fans as a season of very high hopes and reasonably high expectations for a winning season and a playoff berth has suddenly turned tense and unsure of either of those hopes being met. In a continuing pattern over most of the past three weeks [...]
Published on: 31st January, 2011
New York – At the end of tonight’s Knicks win over the Detroit Pistons at Madison Square Garden, the sellout crowd once more launched into it’s familiar “MVP, MVP” refrain when the Knicks big man came to the foul line to take two late game free throws. Down from the rafters came the same chant [...]
Published on: 28th January, 2011
New York – Tonight was exactly what the NBA has longed for over the past decade of futility that has marked the play of the New York Knicks. It was a matchup of two Eastern Conference rivals, each representing big media markets. David Stern’s favorite team, the Knicks of New York City and the South Beach Heat from Miami. Both cities and [...]
Published on: 25th January, 2011
New York – It was a win tonight and in the NBA, a win is a win is a win. But, even as the New York Knicks were unimpressively defeating the Washington Wizards at Madison Square Garden, 115-106, snapping a six-game losing streak, the Knicks players know deep down that in the eyes of the [...]
Published on: 24th January, 2011
New York – Often times, when you look into the past, you can use the lessons learned back in the day to guide your present day decisions. If you’re the New York Knickerbockers, and you’ve just lost your sixth consecutive game and the luster of an exciting season is quickly wearing off, you start to [...]
Published on: 25th December, 2010
New York – If you are a Knicks fan and are old enough to remember the previous millenium, today’s game at Madison Square Garden might have allowed you to hear some of the echos of those roaring crowds of some 15-20 years ago when the Chicago Bulls used to come to town to play the New York Knicks. Instead of [...]
Published on: 23rd December, 2010
Knicks Beat A Road-Weary Okie City At GardenNew York — Through these first 29 games of this, his rookie season in the NBA with the New York Knicks, Landry Fields seems to have figured out how to become an integral part of the team’s success. Perhaps, it is the fact he stayed in college (Stanford) for four years, developing a maturity and understanding of [...]
Published on: 18th December, 2010
New York – LeBron James said before tonight’s game against the Knicks that he felt confident it would be a good one for him and his Miami Heat. Amar’e Stoudemire said the same thing before the game. But, only one of these young, multi-millionaires was going to be right. Score one for LeBron. James and [...]
Published on: 16th December, 2010
Upstart Knicks Fall To Celtics After Leading Whole GameNew York – It’s not easy for a team to lose at home on a game-winning near-buzzer shot, against a long-time rival, within their own division, while ending an eight game winning streak of their own and still, feel really, really good about themselves. But, the Knicks accomplished exactly that as they led the Boston Celtics for [...]
Published on: 12th December, 2010
New York – No matter how many games the Knicks have won this season, there continue to be die-hard cynics who keep pointing to the soft, sub-.500 schedule the Knicks have won most of their games against. Today’s afternoon contest at Madison Square Garden against the Carmelo Anthony-led Denver Nuggets was viewed as the beginning of a real test [...]