TORONTO — During the Knicks’ rushed December training camp, interim general manager Glen Grunwald brought coach Mike D’Antoni into his office at their Westchester practice facility for daily meetings.
On the wall in Grunwald’s office is a greaseboard. During the frenzied free-agent period, the names of players put…

TORONTO â?? You can make yourself crazy wondering about the vagaries of timing, about life’s if-onlys.
If only I’d left the house 30 seconds earlier, I never would have been ahead of that SOB who rear-ended my car … If only I’d stayed home that night instead of getting…

Amar’e Stoudemire made a name for himself in the NBA running the pick-and-roll with Steve Nash in Mike D’Antoni’s freewheeling Suns offense.
Stoudemire returned to the Knicks yesterday after spending a week in Florida with his family grieving the death of his older brother, Hazell, and said…

LAS VEGAS â?? Not every athlete is caught up in the Linsanity.
Unbeaten boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. posted a swipe at Knicks point guard sensation Jeremy Lin on Twitter.
Mayweather posted yesterday: “Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he’s Asian. Black players do what…

In a little more than a week, Jeremy Lin went from being a backup point guard at the end of the Knicks’ bench to the Eastern Conference Player of the Week.
The NBA announced Lin had won the award yesterday, which was all but a foregone conclusion after the way…

The elephant in the room that threatens to overshadow Linsanity is whether Carmelo Anthony will mesh with Jeremy Lin, or mess with the Knicks’ newfound chemistry.
Anthony, who hopes to return from his strained right groin Friday against New Orleans, has heard the doubts and found them laughable. Coach Mike…

Jeremy Lin is for all the people who have been told since they were kids they wouldn’t amount to anything. His unfathomable emergence from the bottom of the Cracker Jack box is for the world’s walk-ons.
The last time Madison Square Garden’s crowds were this surprised is…

TAMPA â?? In his own understated way Derek Jeter is caught up in Linsanity as much as the rest of the world.Jeter said he has been following the amazing exploits of the Knicks’ young guard. “I’ve seen some highlights,” Jeter said yesterday at the Yankees minor league complex. “It…

Thank you, Gilbert Arenas.
With the recent “Gilbert Arenas Rule,” the Knicks can’t be outbid for point guard phenom Jeremy Lin if they are willing to use their full $5 million mid-level exception to retain him this summer as a restricted free agent.
It’s a very long way…

Amar’e Stoudemire was walking slowly back to the locker room at the Knicks’ training facility yesterday afternoon after finishing his first practice since attending the funeral of his older brother, Hazell, in Florida.
“It’s good to be back on the basketball court,â? Stoudemire had said earlier in the…

With the Knicks and Rangers on winning streaks and Linsanity spreading through the sports world, shares of The Madison Square Garden Co. reached an all-time high Monday.

You make no lasting judgments on Mike D’Antoni, or his future, any more than you make lasting judgments on how far Jeremy Lin takes this and how good an NBA playmaker he really is.

When Carmelo Anthony walked into a short hallway at the Knicks’ practice facility in Greenburgh Monday, he joked that he had one focus as the Knicks prepared to fly to Toronto for Tuesday’s game against the Raptors. “I just hope I have a spot on the team plane,â? he said.

A variety of commentators are saying Carmelo Anthony and jeremy Lin won’t work, and they are casting Anthony as the villain. Worse still, they made it personal. Anthony was called “selfishâ? and totally “ego-driven.â? One scholar went as far to call Anthony “half-a-moron.â? Then, of course, some had Anthony’s ticket punched to Orlando in a deal for Dwight Howard.

Knicks phenom Jeremy Lin faces what could be his biggest test yet Tuesday â?? and we’re not talking about the woeful Toronto Raptors. Lin is gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated for the first time, pitting the 6-foot-3 point guard against a force that has stopped other careers in their tracks â?? the jinx!

Right on schedule, the honors are starting to roll in for Jeremy Lin, who on Monday was named Eastern Conference Player of the Week. Really, nobody knows the answers to the questions surrounding Lin, as much as everyone wants to have them right now. It’s New York, so jumping ahead is what we do. It’s our favorite pastime, as we saw in the two-year run-up to LeBron’s free agency and all the talk about the King coming to the Garden. LeBron James never had a chance.”He’s the talk of New York and the talk of all the NBA,â? Carmelo Anthony said Monday.

While Knicks guard Jeremy Lin was awarded Eastern Conference Player of the Week honors Monday for his explosive five-game stretch, boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather dismissed Lin’s success as a product of Asian influence.”Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he’s Asian,â? Mayweather tweeted.

Amar’e Stoudemire, who returned to the Knicks on Monday, said he enjoyed every minute of Jeremy Lin’s uncanny streak.

The Raptors will hold Asian Heritage Night on Tuesday, when the Knicks and point guard Jeremy Lin, who is of Taiwanese ancestry, are in town.

Lou Williams scored 23 points off the bench as the Philadelphia 76ers built an early lead and held on to send the Charlotte Bobcats to their 15th straight loss, 98-89, Monday night.

Shares of Madison Square Garden Company, which owns the Knicks, the arena where they play and the cable network that broadcasts their games, hit a record high Monday.

David Lee had 28 points and 12 rebounds, Monta Ellis scored 18 points and the Golden State Warriors earned their first three-game winning streak under rookie coach Mark Jackson with a 102-96 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Monday night.

New Orleans Hornets’ Eric Gordon will miss at least another six weeks after it was announced on Monday the guard will undergo arthroscopic knee surgery.

LeBron James helped Miami finally find a way past the Milwaukee Bucks, scoring 35 points in the Heat’s 114-96 victory on Monday.

LeBron James helped Miami finally find a way past the Milwaukee Bucks, scoring 35 points in the Heat’s 114-96 victory on Monday.

Dirk Nowitzki scored 22 points, 11 in the final 6-plus minutes, Shawn Marion added 16, and the Dallas Mavericks held on to beat the Los Angeles Clippers 96-92 on Monday night.

Chris Kaman scored a season-high 27 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, and the New Orleans Hornets snapped an eight-game skid with an 86-80 victory over the Utah Jazz on Monday night.

LeBron James scored 35 points and the Miami Heat finally found a way to beat Milwaukee, using a third-quarter surge to beat the Bucks 114-96 on Monday night.

Lou Williams scored 23 points off the bench as the Philadelphia 76ers built an early lead and held on to send the Charlotte Bobcats to their 15th straight defeat, 98-89 Monday night.

Jason Richardson scored 17 points, and Jameer Nelson and Hedo Turkoglu each added 14 as the Orlando Magic used a big second half to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 102-89 on Monday night.

Amare Stoudemire watched Linsanity from Florida, a welcome break as he grieved the death of his brother.

Howard Beck, who covers the N.B.A. for The Times, will answer questions from readers.

Coach Mike D’Antoni had a great guard in Phoenix to power his wide-open offense, Steve Nash. With the Knicks, it is Jeremy Lin who is playing that role.