For your in-post game thoughts. Update: Just made the 90 minute trek back to Columbia, SC from the arena in Charlotte. A handful of random thoughts. I suspect that most of these have been covered to some degree in the comments but I’m too tired to look through them right now :) 1. Tough night [...]

Tonight the New York beat the Bobcats at home 110-107. The Knicks led for most of the game, and started off the fourth quarter with a 14 point lead. But Charlotte whittled away and dropped it down to 3 (94-91) with 8:09 left, making the Knicks earn the victory. New York shot well from inside [...]

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This is the twelfth in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of examinations into different games, events and decisions that impacted Knicks history in some way, shape or form. Stories that are not as famous as, say, “The Dunk” or Willis Reed playing Game 7, but still have a place in Knicks history, especially for die-hard fans. Here is an archive of all the stories featured so far.

I don’t think I would get very many arguments out there (perhaps a crazed Jeff Van Gundy fan) if I were to state that the late, great William “Red” Holzman was the greatest head coach in New York Knick history. Holzman coached the Knicks to both of their only two National Basketball Association (NBA) titles in 1970 and 1973. He is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Holzman’s career in professional basketball is a bit of a strange one. Amazingly enough, Holzman owes what were likely the three biggest breaks in his career to one man – his longtime friend, Andrew “Fuzzy” Levane. Bizarrely, on three separate points in history, Levane brought Holzman into a situation where Holzman would end up lasting longer than Levane himself!

Read on to see how important Levane was to Holzman’s career in the pro basketball, including his time with the New York Knicks!

The Knicks have won their last two contests, and have snuck into 7th place in the Eastern Conference standings. This chain of events might have coaxed Knick fans who were on the ledge back into safety. But what do these recent games say about the team? To do so I’ll compare the Knicks stats from [...]

It’s the NBA’s equivalent of a tree falling in the woods. A Saturday late night West Coast game against the Clippers. Knick beat writer Alan Hahn asked “Roll Call. Who is really watching Knicks-Clippers on a Saturday night?” Answered by the Times’ Howard Beck “No way. Total waste of a Saturday night. Oh, wait.” As [...]

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