(Saturday, September 24, 2016 7:39:00 PM)
Phil Jackson hopes to make his critics finally eat crow after what the Knicks have had to ingest for the past two seasons.
[SNY Knicks] Knicks’ brass discusses finding support for Melo (Saturday, September 24, 2016 12:02:09 PM)
While a hot topic during Phil Jackson and Co.’s press conference Friday was Derrick Rose’s forthcoming trial, Jackson did manage to discuss the Knicks’ overall potential.
[NYTimes] Liberty and Mercury Players Join Anthem Protest Before Playoff Game (Sunday, September 25, 2016 12:27:11 AM)
At Madison Square Garden, some players on the Liberty and the Phoenix Mercury joined the movement ignited by the San Francisco 49ers’ Colin Kaepernick.
[NYTimes] Mercury 101, Liberty 94: A Poised Diana Taurasi Helps the Mercury Oust the Liberty (Sunday, September 25, 2016 4:31:17 AM)
Taurasi scored a game-high 30 points, including a huge 3-pointer to end a string of Liberty comebacks, to end the Liberty’s playoff season after one game.
(Sunday, September 25, 2016 7:06:40 AM)
When you’re Russell Westbrook, the undisputed king of NBA fashion, you don’t spend the offseason like typical players do.
(Saturday, September 24, 2016 2:21:43 PM)
Mistie Bass, Kelsey Bone and their Mercury teammates met with Phoenix police a few weeks ago after practice.
(Saturday, September 24, 2016 6:35:44 PM)
It has been a while since Knicks president Phil Jackson invoked the word “championship” — something he has won 13 times as an NBA player and head coach. Jackson’s only references to titles during the Knicks’ 17-65 and 32-50 campaigns the past two dismal seasons were related to how the far the club was from…
[NYDN] Why did Phil Jackson say the Knicks had to ‘eat some dung?’ (Saturday, September 24, 2016 6:15:21 AM)
Sometimes you have to swallow some excrement to achieve a stable NBA franchise.
(Sunday, September 25, 2016 1:20:30 AM)
Phil Jackson: Offseason moves ‘definitely worth the risk’