Knicks Morning News (2017.01.12)

Squandering a 17-point lead in the first half, the team lost for the ninth time in 10 games despite the return of Derrick Rose.

Butler, an All-Star swingman, is averaging career highs of 25 points and 6.7 rebounds a game, but Chicago, like the Knicks, is lingering outside the playoff pack.

The Big3, featuring retired N.B.A. stars, will be a traveling league: All eight teams will head to a city for four minigames on the same day.

PHILADELPHIA — In Clarence Gaines Jr. We Trust. According to a source, the major reason the Knicks kept defensive forward Maurice Ndour over point guard Chasson Randle coming out of training camp was the lobbying by Gaines, a trusted confidant of Phil Jackson, who has gone from an adviser to vice president of player personnel….

PHILADELPHIA — Disappearing Knicks point guard Derrick Rose was fined roughly $200,000 for missing Monday’s loss to the Pelicans without notification, sources said. Coach Jeff Hornacek indicated the Knicks followed the code used for a player being suspended for one game — which is 1/110th of his $21 million wage or roughly $200,000. A source…

PHILADELPHIA — All Kristaps Porzingis really had to do was hit the rim. Oh, making the shot would have been nice, but the Knicks would have settled for a piece of the rim. Or even the backboard. Just not the bottom of the net, which was all that Porzingis’ 3-point shot found with 6.8 seconds…

PHILADELPHIA — At one end of the Wells Fargo Center on Wednesday night, 76ers coach Brett Brown, who has won just 20 percent of his games since the 2013-14 season, spoke of optimism for the future, admitting his team was much closer to being where they have tried to get for three-plus years. At the…

PHILADELPHIA — Derrick Rose showed up, shined and still couldn’t prevent the Knicks from losing a buzzer-beating heartbreaker. T.J. McConnell scored on a spinning, off-balance 10-footer after faking out Carmelo Anthony as the Sixers stole a 98-97 victory Wednesday at Wells Fargo Center, setting off a wild celebration after the Knicks blew a 13-point fourth-quarter…

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PHILADELPHIA — Carmelo Anthony admitted it was “scary’’ and “worrisome for everyone’’ when the Knicks took the court Monday night not knowing whether Derrick Rose was in serious danger. Monday night turned into a horrible one for Anthony, too, as he got ejected in the third quarter of a blowout loss to the Pelicans at…

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Knicks stunned, Melo deflated: ‘It’s unacceptable’

This is one the Knicks absolutely needed. It was one they had in their grasp.

The Knicks needed the Sixers point guard to go AWOL on Wednesday.

Even the Knicks’ Twitter account is having a rough week.

Perhaps if he turned up in a strip club or a casino when he went off the grid this week, things would be different.

Knicks big man Kyle O’Quinn was fined $25,000 by the NBA for the hard foul he leveled against Anthony Davis Monday night.

The veteran point guard also admitted that if he needed more time away from the Knicks he would ask for it.

Carmelo Anthony leads the NBA in something: three ejections, including the most recent during Monday’s embarrassing loss.

The Knicks lost to the 76ers on Wednesday night, 98-97.

Guard Jimmy Butler and forward Nikola Mirotic will both miss Thursday’s game against the Knicks with an illness, reports K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune.

Knicks G Derrick Rose will return to the lineup Wednesday night against the 76ers, head coach Jeff Hornacek told reporters.

New York Knicks forward Mindaugas Kuzminskas is feeling better and should be good to play in Wednesday night’s game against the 76ers, head coach Jeff Hornacek said.

The Knicks head to Philadelphia to take on the 76ers at 7 p.m. on Wednesday night.

In critiquing the Knicks, Barry is especially right about something else: the team’s gamble to remain competitive around Anthony hasn’t worked out.

Knick guard Derrick Rose’s actions were “beyond unacceptable,” former Knick and current TNT and NBATV analyst Greg Anthony told the Daily News.

Carmelo Anthony feels like he’s watching the same movie over and over again, but he’s hoping for a different ending.

PHILADELPHIA — Derrick Rose was present and accounted for and showed up for the Knicks in the fourth quarter. But the Knicks’ defense and ability to hold a big lead went AWOL down the stretch.

Derrick Rose said his focus is on playing basketball, and that he’s in a much better place mentally than he was two days ago.