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Oh God The Knicks Are Going To Screw This Melo Shit Up So Completely, I Can't Wait

... Clippers are ever to make a serious run at a championship, they do not have much time left to do it, and they do not have much ground to give in the pursuit. They need help. If this sounds like a set of circumstances that would make them good trade partners for the Knicks, who reportedly are looking to unload the still very good but aging and unhappy Carmelo Anthony, it probably is! You can imagine the line of thinking: Melo, whose no-trade clause gives him veto power over any proposed deal, gets the revitalizing jolt of playing meaningful games for a star-studded playoff team; the Clippers get, well, Melo, which is still a self-evidently appealing prospect even at this point in his career; and the Knicks, dealing from a position of relative strength, capitalizing on the Clippers’ fairly desperate need, get to target a player they’ve long had their eye on: Austin Rivers. Clippers have strong interest in adding Carmelo Anthony to Big Three Clippers have strong interest ...

Knicks And Hornets Square Off In Rubber Match To Decide Season Series

... and grabbed six boards in arguably his best performance in a Knicks uniform.  With Kristaps Porzingis struggling lately, New York will need Lee’s production on both sides of the floor.  Lee currently ranks sixth in the NBA in 3-point shooting at 42.9 percent on three attempts per game. 3.  Willy Hernangomez continues to impress with extended minutes on the floor.  The Rookie is averaging 11.3 points, 11.3 rebounds in 20.5 minutes over his last four outings (did not play against Washington).  On Wednesday night, Hernangomez ripped down 16 boards and has snatched double-digit rebounds eight times to go along with two double-double outings in 39 games played this year. 4.  For the first time since 2010, the Charlotte franchise will have a representative at Sunday’s midseason showcase.  Last night, the league announced the All-Star reserves and point guard Kemba Walker earned a spot on the Eastern Conference squad by averaging career ...

Knicks' Carmelo Anthony Calls Trade Talk 'mentally Draining

... rumors and drama around him and the Knicks. "It can be mentally draining, mentally fatiguing.". "Yeah, I enjoy that," Anthony said with a smile when asked about the fans booing him. "I enjoy it.". Asked if it takes a unique kind of guy to handle playing in New York City, Anthony replied, "Yeah, Melo.". "You've got to be cut from a different cloth to take this day in and day out and to deal with this all day long every day," he said. "You've got to take the good with the bad. I don't know how I do it, but I do it.". "Without a doubt," Anthony said when asked if he has even more respect for what [Patrick] Ewing went through. "As a student of the game, you know what people go through in their own respective situations. Knowing the history of the game and knowing the history here and the players, he was one of those guys who kind of can relate to what I'm going through. Being able to still try to perform at a high level and block everything out, I mean, that's somebody I can say understands what I'm dealing with.". Ewing, of course, was shipped from New York to Seattle in 2000-01. "It wasn't his fault," Anthony said with a ...

The Knicks Throw Up Another Airball

... a surprise. In a league of powerful, fleet-footed guards, increasingly dexterous big men, and thousands of improbably accurate three-pointers, Noah’s tortured set shot might be the ugliest recurring event. He stands slightly pigeon-toed and holds the ball as if hoping to squeeze out the air; at the point of release, he looks a bit like a volleyball player, setting up someone else’s big spike. Noah’s mangled mechanics aside—although, to be clear, it’s bewildering that a professional basketball player should be so inept, and somehow getting worse, at the game’s core motion—the shot seemed like a metaphor for the Knicks’ entire season. I’m not the only one who thought so: in his great daily newsletter, Good Morning, It’s Basketball!, the hoops writer Tom Ziller introduced a clip of it as “. THE KNICKS SEASON, IN ONE HORRIBLY AIRBALLED JOAKIM NOAH FREE THROW. .” After a promising start—this is the separation from the fingertips, the lift into the air—things have quickly fallen away from coherence and out of control for my favorite team. (The other, more consequential analogy is too depressing, for the moment, to contemplate. The best imaginable slogan for this year’s ...

Why You Should Grab Knicks’ Willy Hernangomez

... (76 ers) at Mavericks, Wednesday: Dallas is dead last in rebounding per game at just 38.1 a night. Provided he's healthy, Embiid, who is averaging 10.8 rebounds and 2.8 blocked shots per game in his last 10 games, should be able to enhance the 23.8 points per game in the same span and translate it into Fantasy gold for his owners. *Devin Booker (Suns) at Kings, Friday: Garrett Temple isn't a bad player, yet Booker entered Saturday's game against the Nuggets with 13 straight games of at least 20 points. Booker still is limited in what he offers besides scoring, but is shooting 50 percent from three-point range in his last 10 contests while shooting 49.5 percent overall in that span. *C. J. Mc Collum and Damian Lillard (Trail Blazers) vs. Mavericks, Friday: This has Slaughter of the Innocents written all over it, especially if the injury-riddled Mavs are still without their backcourt duo of PG Deron ...

From Latvia With Love, Vintage 1973

... 10 win over Seattle) through Game Five of The NBA Finals (the title-clinching 102-93 win over the Lakers at The Forum). Now, it should be noted (especially for those of you raised in the Internet-social media-instant information era) that collecting each and every box score was an impressive feat indeed in 1973. Not only were newspapers the sole source for such information, but remember that early deadlines, combined with many more late West Coast games than today, made such a feat daunting if not impossible. Klavins had a secret advantage: the primary sources for his scrapbook were his hometown Gannett Westchester Newspapers (especially the White Plains Reporter-Dispatch and the New Rochelle Standard Star), which in those days were pure afternoon papers which didn’t hit the stands until around lunchtime. The afternoon New York Post was similar in that regard. So if the Knicks were playing ...

Maurice Ndour, Marshall Plumlee And The W-knicks Fall To Jerry Stackhouse’s 905

... best team in the league, by the score of 111-99 on Friday night thanks to their rookie coach and balanced scoring. The W-Knicks who fell behind by 9 points at the end of the 1 st quarter never were able to catch up to the Raptors who are undefeated against the W-Knicks at the County Center. The W-Knicks, who looked a little rusty playing their first game after last week’s D-League Showcase, needed to take care of ball better. Friday it was the 905 defense that coach Stackhouse has preached all season which decided the game and increased their winning streak to eight. The W-Knicks (12-14) got a little help from their big brother tonight once again when Maurice Ndour and Marshall Plumlee were sent down to the D-League before the game. Ndour and Plumlee both inserted right into the starting lineup played well but the 7 turnovers between them shows they need more playing time ...

Paul Millsap, Hawks Outlast Knicks In 4ots

... 20,000 points for the franchise. He came in needing six points to hit the plateau and reached it with a layup early in the second quarter (see full recap). CHICAGO — Brett Brown said before and after Sunday night’s 121-108 loss to the Bulls that the Sixers have a long way to go before they are where he wants them to be. They showed why a couple of times between those matching statements. The Sixers fell into a 20-point hole early in the second quarter and, once it battled back, got almost no help from its bench as they dropped their second straight (see Instant Replay). It was also the Sixers' 12 th straight loss to the Bulls. The Sixers’ reserves were outscored, 49-15, and watched several players come off Chicago’s bench to make key contributions. “It’s just one game,” said Dario Saric, who led the bench with six points. “We didn’t show our ability.”. While the Sixers struggled with their starters on the bench, Chicago saw Doug Mc Dermott (14 points), Paul Zipser and Nikola Mirotic (13 each) and Rajon Rondo (10 assists) help it run away ...