Knicks Defense

The future of the New York Knicks hinges on reversing this trend of getting one dimensional players and instead starting a new trend of getting solid all-around basketball players, so that a sense of team identity and trust can finally be developed between the players.
Often times during the past four years, the Knicks [...]

We’ve still got a full month to wait before we learn who the Knicks end up taking in the 2008 NBA draft.
Unless we trade for another pick, the pre-draft camp in Orlando isn’t going to be of much weight in the decision making process for the Knicks, because the projected lottery picks often [...]

Sixth isn’t too bad. Obviously first or second would have been instant gratification for our Knicks, but the odds were best that we would get the sixth, and that’s what we ended up getting.
A lot can happen leading up to the sixth draft pick a month from now. We could trade up [...]

Tonight we find out where exactly the New York Knicks will pick in the 2008 NBA draft lottery this June. Again, we’ll be somewhere from 1-3 or 5-8, depending on the luck of the draw.
Let’s go Knicks!
Time to bring back some basketball magic to Madison Square Garden.
 

Didn’t think I’d make it to the Earl “The Perl” Monroe signing this past weekend at J&R, but I did have some time free up at the last minute, so I hopped on a train downtown at the buzzer so to speak. By the time I got there, they were getting ready to leave [...]

Over the past four years, it was my understanding that Isiah Thomas does not think too highly of European basketball players, so why did they recently put him on a plane to go over there and scout them?

From Wikipedia:
“After the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd picks are determined, the 4th-14th picks are assigned to teams based on weakness of record.”
Now for some hypothetical thinking aloud (online):
If I understand this correctly, lets say that none of the three teams with the worst records finishes with the top three picks (very unlikely, but mathematically still [...]

For all of you in the NYC area this weekend who would like a chance to meet a living Knick legend, my sources have informed me that NBA great Earl “The Pearl” Monroe will be doing an autograph session at J&R this Saturday at 1:30pm.
You are invited…
 
 
 

The Knicks would have tied Seattle’s 20-win record had they lost those three relatively meaningless games.
The 2008 lottery is scheduled for one week from today, on May 20, 2008 in Secaucus, New Jersey. The results are to be revealed on ESPN at 8:00-8:30 EDT. Here are the odds of winning it all.
(Remember, the Rockets [...]

We already know the blockbuster news around town yesterday, that Mike D’Antoni has accepted the New York Knicks head coaching position last for $24 million over four seasons.
 

I admire D’Antoni for the job he’s done in Phoenix, the way he sort of transformed the league with the now highly copied system he introduced in Phoenix, [...]