Knicks Morning News (2016.07.30)

  • [ESPN] Phil Jackson: ‘Today’s players simply lack the skills to play the triangle’
    (Friday, July 29, 2016 2:00:44 PM)

    Phil Jackson: ‘Today’s players simply lack the skills to play the triangle’

  • [ESPN] Rose’s civil sexual assault trial set for October
    (Friday, July 29, 2016 12:04:23 PM)

    Rose’s civil sexual assault trial set for October

  • [NYPost] Amar’e Stoudemire retired with Knicks because first pick said no
    (Friday, July 29, 2016 5:34:30 PM)

    Amar’e Stoudemire loves New York, just not as much as Phoenix. Stoudemire signed a one-day contract Tuesday so he could retire as a Knick, but what the 33-year-old truly wanted was to finish where his career started — in Phoenix with the Suns. It turns out the feelings were not mutual. “The last two years,…

  • [NYPost] Phil Jackson: Today’s NBAers too inept to run triangle, so let’s run triangle
    (Friday, July 29, 2016 11:47:48 AM)

    Phil Jackson thought NBA players lack the skill to play the triangle offense, yet insisted in running it with the dismal Knicks last season. In Part 3 of Charley Rosen’s Phil Jackson Chronicles, this installment from December 2015, Jackson most notably critiques today’s generation of NBA players and their ability to fit into his desired…

  • [NYPost] Derrick Rose’s gang-rape case is headed to trial
    (Friday, July 29, 2016 6:56:52 AM)

    Derrick Rose tried to get a sexual assault civil case against him thrown out, but his request was denied this week and the new Knicks point guard is headed to trial. The trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 4 in Los Angeles, coinciding with the start of Knicks training camp. A former girlfriend of Rose…

  • [SNY Knicks] Rose’s civil sexual assault trial scheduled to begin Oct. 4
    (Friday, July 29, 2016 3:22:27 PM)

    Derrick Rose’s motion to have the civil sexual assault case against him dismissed has been denied, with the trial scheduled to begin in Los Angeles on Oct. 4.

  • [NYTimes] Wade Excited to Join Hometown Bulls
    (Friday, July 29, 2016 10:12:49 PM)

    When Dwyane Wade was a free agent in 2010, he got a Chicago Bulls jersey when he met with his hometown team. He took it home, put it on and took a picture. Then he deleted it.

  • [NYTimes] Russian Athletes Affected by Rio Bans
    (Friday, July 29, 2016 6:06:36 PM)

    Following the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) decision on Sunday not to issue a blanket ban on Russian athletes despite evidence of systematic doping across the majority of Olympic sports, global sporting federations have been left to decide which Russians can compete at next month’s Rio Games.

  • [NYTimes] Factbox: Russian Athletes Affected by Rio Bans
    (Friday, July 29, 2016 12:06:36 PM)

    Following the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) decision on Sunday not to issue a blanket ban on Russian athletes despite evidence of systematic doping across the majority of Olympic sports, global sporting federations have been left to decide which Russians can compete at next month’s Rio Games.

  • [NYDN] Judge denies Derrick Rose’s attempt to dismiss sex assault case
    (Friday, July 29, 2016 10:07:56 PM)

    A federal judge in L.A. denied Derrick Rose’s motion to dismiss the sexual assault lawsuit filed last year by the NBA star’s former lover.

  • [NYDN] Stoudemire really wanted to play for, and retire with, Suns
    (Friday, July 29, 2016 8:09:18 AM)

    STAT ultimately had to settle for a ceremonial one-day contract with the Knicks.

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