Knicks Morning News (2016.11.04)

With the Cubs having won the World Series for the first time since 1908, Chicago fans may be too emotionally (or otherwise) hung over to care that Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah are returning on Friday night for the first time as Knicks.

At 1-3, the Knicks are talking about needing to improve their defense going into Friday’s game against the Bulls in Cubs-mad Chicago.

All it took was one-and-a-half home games for the Knicks to hear their first boos of the season. Unless they find a way to stop teams, those boos will rain down more often and louder, and the team Phil Jackson built will have another disappointing season.

Carmelo Anthony issued a 77-word Instagram post that seemed to suggest his doubters are emerging again but he still sees himself making it in New York. Perhaps sparked by a 1-3 start and growing discontent after three straight non-playoff seasons, Anthony wrote Thursday:

CHICAGO — Derrick Rose said his major regret about being traded by the Bulls last June was failing to win a title despite seven straight playoff berths and a trip to the Eastern Conference Finals. Rose will make his homecoming Friday at United Center on the same day as the Cubs’ championship parade. “Not winning…

CHICAGO — Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah arrive in the Windy City for Friday’s showdown against the Bulls at the worst possible time. Rose, the hometown hero, and Noah, the former Bulls stalwart at center, make their United Center returns with their new sad-sack Knicks looking like a complete wreck at 1-3. As Chicago holds…

New Jersey prosecutors have charged two men with killing former Knicks draft pick Michael Wright, whose body was found in his car in Brooklyn last year. Mark Holdbrooks, 59, and David “King Victor” Victor, 35, were picked up and held on $3 million each for the killing, Bergen County prosecutors said Wednesday. Holdbrooks was a…

Leave it to new Knicks shooting guard Courtney Lee to come up with one of the more interesting theories of the past three years on why Phil Jackson’s teams haven’t defended well. Following another inept defensive outing against the Rockets on Wednesday, when the Garden crowd booed the Knicks in their second home game, Lee suggested…

Though he is a White Sox fan, Derrick Rose’s 3-year-old son, P.J., threw out the first pitch at a Cubs game at Wrigley Field on May 17.

You could understand if Joakim Noah and Derrick Rose get that longing, homesick feeling during their nationally-televised game in Chicago.

Friday’s Knicks News: Rose regrets not winning title with Bulls

Jimmy Butler: ‘Lots of love’ for Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah in Chicago return

Hornacek: Knicks have to get Porzingis the ball

Two charged in slaying of ex-Arizona F Wright

Thursday’s Knicks News: Noah benched in loss to Rockets

Anthony Donahue and Moke Hamilton aren’t in a particularly good mood after a tough start to the season. The guys discuss the Knicks’ recent losses to Detroit and Houston, and question Jeff Hornacek’s rotation through the first four games. Later, the guys go Around the League, and stop in Chicago and OKC.

Though the Knicks have struggled so far this season, the offensive production of Carmelo Anthony and Derrick Rose has been encouraging. The same can’t be said about Kristaps Porzingis, however.

NEW YORK, NY: It’s not just the lack of his once signature mustache that is different about Mike D’Antoni in 2016.