I did one of these last week but then the Knicks traded everyone, so now let’s take a new look at the Knicks’ cap situation heading into free agency at midnight, July 1st. Enjoy!
Month: June 2016
Thursday's Knicks Links: Time for Phil Jackson to do his job
Sources: Knicks strong favorites to land Noah
The Knicks are set for a summer of change, with just five players under contract for next season and an expected $30 million to spend under the salary cap.
Miami President Pat Riley is a big fan of the symbolic 12:01 a.m. phone call to his team’s top targets. San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich says he would rather be sleeping at that moment. And more than $1 billion in deals will likely be hammered out in the next couple of days alone.
The Golden State Warriors extended qualifying offers to forward Harrison Barnes and center Festus Ezeli on Wednesday, making them restricted free agents.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Perhaps one reason Carmelo Anthony was so moved by new coach Jeff Hornacek watching his recent workouts is the new Knicks coach traveled into Manhattan to do so. Hornacek watched a couple of Anthony's sessions at Anthony's own gym, Terminal 23, in midtown — not at the club's Tarrytown facility. They talked…
The NBA's annual meat market starts at 12:01 a.m. Friday, and figure within seconds players, agents and team executives will be chatting, schmoozing, promising and lying all over the landscape. And multiple sources swear some of the players talking will not be named Kevin Durant. Of course, the Thunder superstar is the guy on everyone's…
In 1971, Spencer Haywood sued for the chance to join the draft without completing four years of college. Now he is pushing for the rule that allows underclassmen into the N.B.A. to bear his name.
Dwyane Wade still has every hope of finishing his NBA career in the same manner that it began, wearing a Miami Heat uniform.
A person with knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press that San Antonio Spurs star Tim Duncan has exercised his contract option for next season but is still mulling his playing future.
Wednesday's Knicks Links: Possible free agent center options
German sportswear firm Adidas has signed a deal with the Wanda business empire of China’s richest man Wang Jianlin to sponsor two of Wanda’s endurance events, promote soccer and basketball in the country and open stores in Wanda’s malls.
Tuesday's Knicks Links: Derrick Rose trade 'reinvigorated' Carmelo Anthony
Source: Six teams scheduled to meet Durant
Monday's Knicks Links: New York still hoping to land meeting with Durant
Summer in the city. The City That Never Sleeps. Where, not to worry, there is no calm around here after the LeBron-versus-Warriors storm. New York sports fans can bemoan the paucity of championships, but their insatiable appetite always remains whetted by the smorgasbord of stars and events that come their way. In chronological order: 1….
The position of point guard for the New York Knicks ought to carry the same weight, the same gravitas, and the same roster of excellence that center field for the Yankees always has. New York, after all, long fancied itself as the cradle of point guards, and even if there are plenty who will line…
Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony will be together Monday for a press conference in Manhattan to announce the U.S. Olympic team that will be competing in Rio in August. Former Post basketball writer Peter Vecsey, on WFAN, said Anthony and Durant were at a dinner together Friday. The two, having grown up in the Baltimore/Washington…
The oft-injured former M.V.P. said he was grateful to his hometown Chicago Bulls for trading him and giving him the opportunity for “another start.”
Despite the Derrick Rose trade, the Knicks haven't landed on Kevin Durant's short list. According to The Vertical, Durant's Roc Nation agency, based in Manhattan, is arranging meetings in New York starting July 1 with the Warriors, Celtics, Clippers, Heat and Spurs and Durant's own team, the Thunder. The long-shot Knicks would like a sit…
The Los Angeles Lakers followed by selecting Duke’s Brandon Ingram, and the Boston Celtics made the first unexpected pick of the night: California forward Jaylen Brown at No. 3.
In its acquisition of Derrick Rose, a team envisions a “decisive attack guard.”
A day after the parade celebrating the Cavaliers’ N.B.A. title, James decided to skip the Games in August in Rio. It was James’s sixth straight trip to the finals.
The long wait to find out which NBA team would be in his future was over in a hurry for Domantas Sabonis.
If Ben Simmons is the question, who’s The Answer?
Draft night belonged to Ben Simmons.
First-round selections in the National Basketball Association draft on Thursday at the Barclays Center (tabulate under number of pick, NBA team, player, position, previous team):
With little mystery surrounding how the first two picks would go in Thursday’s NBA draft, the Celtics responded to wider theories about selection No. 3 by keeping things simple.
Friday's Knicks Links: Phil Jackson realizes there's more work to do
2016 Draft Picks: New York Knicks
The Knicks had just five players on the roster entering draft night Thursday and without a draft pick or a point guard other than the newly acquired Derrick Rose. Knicks president Phil Jackson had hoped to purchase a mid-to-late second-round pick, but with the price soaring well past $2 million, he passed. The Knicks will…
In making the blockbuster move for Derrick Rose, Knicks president Phil Jackson acknowledged it was partly done with an eye on Carmelo Anthony's timetable to win now, but admitted the deal was "risk-reward.” During a pre-draft press conference Thursday at the team's Tarrytown headquarters, Jackson said making the trade for the 2011 MVP was also…
I figured we might as well take a short break to discuss the NBA Draft. Will the Knicks get into the draft? Let’s find out!