Day: March 12, 2018

Yahoo! – Sources: Troy Williams agrees to two-year deal with Knicks

Isn’t it crazy how Yahoo! lost the best basketball insider in the game and still manage to have an excellent basketball insider even after Woj left? Shams is amazing.

Anyhow, from Shams:

The New York Knicks and forward Troy Williams have agreed to a two-year contract, league sources told Yahoo Sports.

Williams’ deal will be guaranteed for the remainder of this season and includes partial guarantees for next season, league sources said.

I’m pleased that they got this done. Granted, they’d have been in an even better position had they just done what I thought they should have done in the first place and just claimed him off waivers (so they would have him under contract for 2018-19 and 2019-20 with the same limited guarantees), but hey, this is better than nothing!

So good for the Knicks! I hope that Williams is here for quite a while. He’s a really high energy player.

Knicks Morning News (2018.03.12)

  • [SNY Knicks] Raptors cruise to 132-106 win over Knicks
    (Sunday, March 11, 2018 3:59:48 PM)

    NEW YORK (AP) Jonas Valanciunas scored 17 points, Kyle Lowry had 16 and the Toronto Raptors kept right on rolling after a big win two nights earlier, beating the New York Knicks 132-106 on Sunday for their season-high eighth straight victory.

  • [NYPost] Knicks’ failed Kyle Lowry trade could have changed everything
    (Sunday, March 11, 2018 7:49:49 PM)

    Toronto coach Dwane Casey knew he was in for a fitful sleep that night in December 2013. The Raptors had a deal all set. Kyle Lowry was going to the Knicks for Iman Shumpert, Metta World Peace and a future first-rounder. “When I went to bed, I understood Kyle was being traded, we were going…

  • [NYPost] G-League castoff gets last laugh on Knicks team that spurned him
    (Sunday, March 11, 2018 7:36:27 PM)

    Nigel Hayes isn’t short on cockiness and said he believes one day the Knicks will regret not keeping him in the organization. Cut out of training camp, the undrafted rookie out of Wisconsin joined the Westchester Knicks, excelled and moved on. He signed a 10-day contract with the Lakers in January and now is with…

  • [NYPost] The Bucks are giving Tim Hardaway a break
    (Sunday, March 11, 2018 5:42:48 PM)

    The Giannis Antetokounmpo/Tim Hardaway Jr. dunk T-shirt has been nixed. According to reports out of Milwaukee, the shirt that featured “the Greek Freak” hopping over Hardaway for a dunk in a game last month at the Garden no longer is for sale. Antetokounmpo said after Friday’s victory over the Knicks it was not a good…

  • [NYPost] It looks like Knicks are trying to lose with revealing starting 5
    (Sunday, March 11, 2018 11:37:45 AM)

    Raptors coach Dwane Casey claimed concern about Sunday’s Garden matinee, telling his Eastern Conference-leading squad beforehand: “This is a trap game, looking at their record. But they’re a talented, young team who plays well at home.” It was no trap, just a tank. The Knicks, taking their developmental stretch of a dead season to a…

  • [NY Newsday] G League Knicks are playoff-bound
    (Sunday, March 11, 2018 9:21:49 PM)

    The Knicks are going to the playoffs. No, not those Knicks. The Westchester Knicks.

  • [NY Newsday] Knicks routed by Raptors as things get testy on court
    (Sunday, March 11, 2018 8:01:08 PM)

    The Knicks started two rookies and at times had three players who began the season in the G League on the court together. They ended the game with four rookies and a player on a 10-day contract on the floor.

  • [NYDN] Knicks extend losing streak to seven in 132-106 loss to Raptors
    (Sunday, March 11, 2018 11:32:45 AM)

    The tanktastic Knicks did their job Sunday. They lost.