Knicks Morning News (Tuesday, Jun 19 2012)
June 19th, 2012 by Mike Kurylo | @KnickerBlogger | Comments | Permalink |
The Knicks, in widening their search for a veteran point guard to be a tandem with Jeremy Lin, met last week with Pablo Prigioni, a 35-year-old on Argentina’s Olympic team.
Prigioni, who played last season in Spain for Unicaja Laboral, had a two-day visit, dinner with Knicks general manager…
As a player, Scott Brooks was loved by coaches for his passion and toughness, but as a coach, he is as understated as his Oklahoma City Thunder is flashy.
The Miami Heat may have grasped the lesson that no N.B.A. team — not even one with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh — is ever assured of winning anything.
The conversation was about LeBron James, and his Miami Heat teammate Udonis Haslem offered a rhetorical question.
NBA commissioner David Stern brought his case for punishing floppers before the league’s new competition committee on Monday intent on figuring out how to discourage players from deceiving referees into calling fouls by falling down during play.
The Charlotte Bobcats have hired St. John’s assistant Mike Dunlap to be their new head coach, two people familiar with the decision said.
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