The Knicks will soon announce that they have signed Ronnie Brewer to a one-year contract for the vet minimum. Brewer will likely get a good shot at taking the starting job at the #2 while Iman Shumpert is out. Like Shump, Brewer is a strong defender. Also like Shump, Brewer can’t hit a three-pointer (he [...]

[New York Times] London Olympics — USA Basketball Team Takes Spain Seriously (Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:20:04 GMT) The men’s basketball exhibition game Tuesday against Spain and its imposing frontcourt should say a lot about the strength of the United States team heading into the London Olympics. [New York Times] Sports Briefing | Basketball: Nets [...]

[New York Post] Report: Grunwald ducked Rockets (Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:36:15 -0500) Glen Grunwald did his best to pull a Houdini act on Rockets officials last week in Las Vegas. According to a report in the Houston Chronicle, the Knicks general manager refused to either answer the door at his Mandarin Oriental hotel room [...]

[New York Times] 2012 Olympics — Team USA’s International Education, Before the Games (Sun, 22 Jul 2012 05:54:05 GMT) Three members of the United States’ 2002 Junior World Championship qualifying team are headed to London for this summer’s Olympics. [New York Times] Krzyzewski Leads Team USA in Practice in Barcelona (Sun, 22 Jul 2012 06:00:26 [...]

[New York Times] Rockets Gaining Lin’s Skills and International Fan Base (Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:10:06 GMT) If fans in Houston are not quite swept up in Linsanity the way New Yorkers were, at least the Rockets know that Jeremy Lin could give them continued resonance in the vast basketball markets in Asia. [New York [...]

[New York Post] Johnson, D’Antoni ‘point’ out surprise at Lin’s Knicks departure (Thu, 19 Jul 2012 03:36:36 -0500) The two head coaches who witnessed the birth of “Linsanityâ? Feb. 4 at the Garden, the Nets’ Avery Johnson, who was foiled by it, and former Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni, who thrived with it, expressed varying degrees [...]

Basketball and big business are both complicated things and, when combined, can make for a full-fledged clusterfrack.  Rarely is this truer than in the brain of Jimmy Dolan, quarters so cavernous and labyrinthine that disgraced former GMs are able to burrow and hide for years beyond their useful lives, pulling strings and likely sexually harassing [...]