LeBron's success without Wade complicates duo's futureFriends off the court, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade have drifted apart on the court. That hasn't hurt Miami's title defense but it may doom its future, says Michael Rosenberg. |
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Knicks superfan Spike Lee lent his support to his beloved Madison Square Garden at a City Council hearing on the Garden’s future, but wasn’t able to sway Council Speaker Christine Quinn. |
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Ian Thomsen: Classic Finals clash? Game 5 has all the makingsJun 15 (4 days ago)
Iam Thomsen, CNNSI.com SAN ANTONIO -- It's as if a new best-of-three NBA Finals is under way. The four games so far, as important as they've been, were the prologue. Game 5 on Sunday becomes the most important game of this NBA season -- played on the Spurs' homecourt, with th… |
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New Brooklyn Nets coach Jason Kidd says ‘I’m home’ in exclusive interview with the Daily NewsJun 13 (7 days ago)
Jason Kidd, new Nets coach, says it took him a week to go from old to young again in basketball. It all started with him announcing his retirement from the Knicks on one Monday, and then convincing the people who run the Brooklyn Nets that he should be … |
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Kidd getting Nets gig irks Ewing Jr.Jun 13 (7 days ago)
The Nets job came and went and former Knicks great Patrick Ewing is still not a head coach in the NBA. And that didn’t set too well with his son, Patrick, Jr., who took to Twitter tovoice his displeasure. |
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Carmelo Anthony is rehabbing his injured left shoulder, and the Knicks have not announced whether the All-Star forward will need surgery. The initial plan was to see if the injury will heal without surgery and re-evaluate it after three weeks. It's been… |
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Ray Allen left Boston to pursue a ring in Miami. But in finding a joy that eluded him elsewhere, the future Hall of Famer may pay with his legacy, writes Michael Rosenberg. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com Let’s start by putting this in some kind of perspective: Carmelo Anthony took his last shot of the season back on May 18th when his Knicks were eliminated from the NBA Playoffs by the Indiana Pacers. Since that last game, a full round+ of the NBA Playof… |
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It's the old, crusty, veteran Spurs against the young-gun Heat and their superstars, right? Wrong, and as Michael Rosenberg explains, age is finally catching up with the Heat. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com Roy Hibbert‘s incredible block on Carmelo Anthony during the fourth quarter of Game 6 in the Eastern Conference Semifinals was probably the best defensive play of the playoffs. And while we’ve always known the big man had ridiculous swagger, this is j… |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com I mean, sure, I could sit here and go into detail about how Froggy Fresh, f.k.a. Krispy Kreme, is a probably-kidding-but-possibly-not rapper who once bragged that he “could beat you up even if you had one thousand knives, even if you had infinity knives… |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com Basketball fans remember the NBA Finals primarily for the teams that win and create dynasties, but these games are also about moments. We remember Michael Jordan's game-winning shot against the Utah Jazz in 1998, Willis Reed playing through a torn muscl… |
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Report: J.R. Smith plans to opt out of Knicks deal |
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The shame of it for Jason Kidd, at the end of one of the great careers any point guard has ever had in basketball, is that when he finally got to Madison Square Garden, to the kind of stage and the kind of spotlight his game always merited, he was alrea… |
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Howard Beck, nytimes.com Jason Kidd, who announced his retirement Monday, was a basketball savant who could dominate a game without scoring, who preferred passing to shooting and who elevated his team with his intelligence alone. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com A little while ago Jason Kidd announced that he is officially retiring from the NBA. After telling the Knicks that he planned to keep playing (he was signed for two more years at a little more than $3 million per), he decided this weekend that it was a … |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com Here’s the thing. If you took a few months off from the world and refused to watch this spring’s NBA Playoffs, what we’re about to tell you might be surprising. Stephen Curry is oh so very happy that he didn’t fall to the Knicks in the 2009 NBA Dr… |
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Matt Gibson, dimemag.com How can you not love Nate Robinson? He’s exciting, charismatic and can straight-up ball. As an undersized college basketball player myself, I was always admiring the perseverance, passion and heart that Robinson has possessed throughout his basketball c… |
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Jason Kidd says he is still decided about whether he'll return for another season with the Knicks.“I am thinking about it,” Kidd told reporters at Justin Tuck’s charity billiards event in Manhattan Thursday night. “We’ll see. I have to make a de… |
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Carmelo Anthony played injured during the Knicks’ six playoff games against the Indiana Pacers, but Paul George, who defended Anthony brilliantly in the series, never detected a problem. |
