Published on: 7th December, 2010
NEW YORK — New York Knickerbockers coach Mike D’Antoni knew what he was getting when the Knicks signed NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire to a free-agent contract this past off-season. After all, D’Antoni had coached the young man when both were with the Phoenix Suns, the franchise where the 6’10″ center got his start in the NBA as a precocious, [...]
Published on: 1st December, 2010
NEW YORK — It turned into one of those old-fashioned shoot-outs tonight between the big men of each team. In the end, it was Sheriff Amar’e Stoudemire who showed the young gun-slinger, Brook Lopez, how to win the game. Stoudemire scored 35 points and the Knicks broke open a close game right after New Jersey [...]
Published on: 27th November, 2010
New York – The questions will begin to be asked again about these New York Knickerbockers after today’s thrashing at the hands of the Atlanta Hawks at Madison Square Garden in a game that wasn’t as close as the score, 99-90, would indicate. In front of a home crowd that welcomed and anticipated a team [...]
Published on: 24th November, 2010
NEW YORK — Toney Douglas scored 22 points, and the New York Knicks won their fourth straight game, beating the Charlotte Bobcats 110-107 on Tuesday night in the opener of a home-and-home series. Amare Stoudemire added 17 for the Knicks, who won the final three games on their road trip and kept rolling right through [...]
Published on: 11th November, 2010
New York – A Hollywood scriptwriter couldn’t have written tonight’s story any better than it turned out for David Lee in his return to Madison Square Garden for the first time since leaving the Knicks as a free agent after the 2009-2010 season. Lee, visiting his old haunt in midtown Manhattan, did to the Knicks [...]
Published on: 7th November, 2010
New York – Sometimes you just have to give credit where it’s due. Today, after losing to the visiting Philadelphia 76ers in a noon matinee at Madison Square Garden, the Knicks should just doff their caps to the Sixers for the way they snapped the Knicks two-game winning streak, 106-96. The Sixers, like the Knicks, [...]
Published on: 6th November, 2010
New York – It’s not so much that the Knicks defeated the Washington Wizards tonight at Madison Square Garden, 112 -91. The home win, coming as it did against a struggling, young Wizards team won’t necessarily make the rest of the league sit up and take notice. But, it was the way the Mike D’Antoni-coached [...]
Published on: 31st October, 2010
New York – It was opening night at Madison Square Garden tonight as the Knicks, after splitting their first two games of the season on the road, faced off against the Portland Trailblazers for the first time in front of their roaring fans. You knew this had to be a special night because the Garden [...]
Published on: 20th October, 2010
New York – Leading up to tonight’s pre-season game against their cross-river rival New Jersey Nets, the New York Knicks had not demonstrated the innovative run and gun offensive style that has been, for so long associated with their coach, Mike D’Antoni. With new personnel across the board, these Knicks had been slow to grasp [...]
Published on: 17th October, 2010
New York — It was the NBA introduction of John Wall to Madison Square Garden tonight and even though it was a pre-season contest, any game with John Wall deserves a little more attention than most. Wall, the much-hyped rookie number one pick in the draft out of the University of Kentucky led his Washington [...]