Knicks Morning News (2016.12.07)

MIAMI — At least it’s not his knees. Derrick Rose’s status for Wednesday’s showdown against the Cavaliers is up in the air after he suffered back spasms in the third quarter and made an early exit from the Knicks’ 114-103 victory over the Heat on Tuesday night. Rose said it was not just his back,…

MIAMI — Bring on The King. The Knicks started a seven-game stretch Tuesday that features six road games and one mighty home game — against the defending champions. Tuesday was the easy part. The hard part comes Wednesday at the Garden, where an angry LeBron James will be waiting. The Knicks made it difficult on…

Tracy Morgan and Katie Holmes are just a few of the celebrity guests attending the game.

Phil Jackson may be stirring more controversy than peace in the aftermath of his “posse” comments concerning LeBron James and his black business partners. The Knicks team president expressed regret Tuesday for speaking about another team’s player and for his “word choice,” but skirted around the term’s racial connotations that inflamed James. “We are not…

MIAMI – Joakim Noah is working on his free-throw technique with Jeff Hornacek as tutor, so “Hack-a-Noah’’ doesn’t become a thing. The Knicks coach believes Noah’s nightmare free-throw shooting is more “in his head’’ than due to a flaw in his technique, though Noah’s form always has been unorthodox. It’s the latest issue in Noah’s troubled first…

It took one word for Phil Jackson to land permanently in LeBron James’ doghouse. And it took one word for the reigning king of the NBA to dismiss having any kind of peace summit or make-nice conversation with the Knicks president when the Cavaliers visit Madison Square Garden on Wednesday. “No,” James said Monday night,…

There was no LeBron James to stop Carmelo Anthony. No Dwyane Wade. No Chris Bosh. Not even Justise Winslow.

Derrick Rose’s goal of playing all 82 games is in jeopardy.

Phil Jackson may or may not regret using the word “posse.”

For once, Joakim Noah and LeBron James can agree on something: boycotting Donald Trump.

Carmelo Anthony matched a season high with 35 points, and the New York Knicks beat the injury-ravaged Miami Heat 114-103 on Tuesday night for their fourth straight victory.

Derrick Rose exited the Knicks game in Miami early on Tuesday night and is not expected to return.

Lebron James has lost all respect for Phil Jackson after the Knicks’ team president referred to James’ business partners as his ‘posse.’

The Knicks travel to Miami to take on the Heat Tuesday night.

Derrick Williams, who played 80 games for the Knicks last season, has appeared in just 11 of the Heat’s 20 games so far in 2016-17.

After Tom Thibodeau was fired by the Chicago Bulls, he spent the next several months on a listening tour. The strategies he learned prepared him for his next job in Minnesota.

The Warriors guard’s total was the highest in an N.B.A. game since Kobe Bryant scored 60 in his final career game last spring.

With the Cavaliers visiting Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, Jackson said his disagreement with LeBron James is “water under the bridge,” while his team earned a road victory over the Heat.

Phil Jackson, who introduced mindfulness exercises after becoming team president, now leads the sessions himself.

MIAMI — Carmelo Anthony used to have to battle LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh whenever he made the trip to South Beach. But the Heat is an injury-riddled team in transition that has some players you wouldn’t know without a roster sheet or boxscore in front of you.

LeBron James has nothing to say to Phil Jackson and apparently has no interest in what the Knicks’ president has to say.

MIAMI — Right now the only thing Joakim Noah hates more than taking free throws is talking about his free-throw shooting.