Knicks Morning News (2018.06.25)

  • [SNY Knicks] Knicks’ Kanter denies report about expectation to opt out
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 7:42:47 PM)

    Knicks center Enes Kanter denied a report on Sunday that indicated he was expected to opt out of his $18.6 million player option for the 2018-19 season.

  • [NYDN] Russia will hack again, it will be worse, and we’re nothing close to ready
    (Monday, June 25, 2018 2:00:00 AM)

    Who is in charge of defending our democracy from propaganda? We focus a lot on the role Moscow played in manipulating our elections in 2016. I have yet to see Congress or the administration actually assign the job of dealing with the threat to anyone in government.

    Russia is returning for round…

  • [NYDN] Stop politicizing pensions: The sole duty of politicians should be to deliver maximum return to retirees
    (Monday, June 25, 2018 2:00:00 AM)

    A secure retirement built on a strong pension has always been the ultimate reward and “thank you” for a lifetime of service by our public servants. Unfortunately, massive unfunded liabilities in pension systems across the country threaten that security. This is not only because of chronic underfunding,…

  • [NYDN] Mexican town’s entire police force arrested after mayoral candidate’s murder
    (Monday, June 25, 2018 2:00:00 AM)

    The entire police force of a Mexican town has been arrested after suspicions around the death of a candidate running for mayor.

    Officers in Ocampo, west of Mexico City, were questioned by state authorities after the assassination of Fernando Ángeles Juárez, from the left-leaning PRD.

    Angeles was…

  • [NYDN] Bass-ackward Bill: Mayor de Blasio’s school integration priorities are out of order
    (Monday, June 25, 2018 1:10:00 AM)

    Having barely dipped his toe in the pool in his first term, Mayor de Blasio is right to finally dive into a school integration debate that’s been riveting the city (and this editorial page) for years.

    But he’s chosen an awfully strange first fight.

    It’s true that the city’s specialized high schools…

  • [NYDN] Access on trial: Profiting from proximity to Cuomo
    (Monday, June 25, 2018 1:05:00 AM)

    Gov. Cuomo is not on trial in federal prosecutors’ present bid-rigging case against former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros, any more than he was in the conviction of former aide Joe Percoco for enriching his family at influence-seekers’ expense.

    But both associates, it’s plenty…

  • [NYDN] You can Google it: New York lawmakers give presumption of accuracy to Google Maps
    (Monday, June 25, 2018 1:00:00 AM)

    State lawmakers have given Google Maps and other web mapping services the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their accuracy.

    A bill approved in the final hours of the state Legislature’s annual session would give Google Maps and other global imaging websites the presumption of accuracy when…

  • [NYDN] LOVETT: Losers and winners of this year’s legislative session
    (Monday, June 25, 2018 1:00:00 AM)

    In a year where little got done, picking winners of the just-completed state legislative session was not easy. But there were plenty of losers.

    Winners:

    Senate Democrats: After years of being in the minority, the Democrats are on the precipice of controlling the chamber. They reunited with eight…

  • [NYDN] How would each middle school be affected by Mayor de Blasio’s specialized high school admissions plan?
    (Monday, June 25, 2018 1:00:00 AM)

    This table displays offers of admission to eighth graders at each New York City public middle school for the 2018-19 school year to the eight New York City high schools that decide admissions exclusively based on the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT). In total, students received about…

  • [NYDN] Primary opponents of Gov. Cuomo and Rep. Crowley set to endorse each other
    (Monday, June 25, 2018 12:55:00 AM)

    The insurgent Democratic candidates taking on Gov. Cuomo and Queens Rep. Joseph Crowley in primaries are set to cross-endorse each other Monday, the Daily News has learned.

    Actress and actvist Cynthia Nixon’s backing of Crowley opponent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez comes a day before Tuesday’s much-watched…

  • [NYDN] Leecia Eve turns to former Clinton and Cuomo aides as she staffs up for attorney general run
    (Monday, June 25, 2018 12:50:00 AM)

    Leecia Eve, one of four Democratic candidates running for state attorney general, has begun staffing up by dipping into her ties to Gov. Cuomo and Hillary Clinton.

    Eve, a Verizon lobbyist and former aide to Cuomo and Cinton, has hired as her campaign manager her brother, Ichor Strategies founder…

  • [NYDN] Readers sound off on research cats, Mayor de Blasio and Phil Mickelson
    (Monday, June 25, 2018 12:00:00 AM)

    Let’s paws the scientific abuse

    Middle Village: I had to really compose myself before putting my opinion to paper (“SUNY catastrophe,” June 22). It seems to me that the SUNY College of Optometry in Manhattan offers nothing more than a sadistic inhuman practice of torturing live cats and kittens…

  • [NYDN] HBO blocked in China after John Oliver ‘Winnie the Pooh’ jabs at leader
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 11:30:00 PM)

    China is oh so bothered by John Oliver’s “Winnie the Pooh” insults against its leader that it has blocked his whole channel.

    Hbo.com has been 100% blocked for Chinese Internet users after Oliver devoted a segment to the People’s Republic on his show “Last Week Tonight” last week, according to monitor…

  • [NYDN] Florence and the Machine casts a spell at intimate Brooklyn album release show
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 9:50:00 PM)

    As dusk descended upon the New York City skyline Sunday evening, Florence Welch sauntered past burning sage and bouquets of wildflowers toward a makeshift stage located just a few feet from the banks of the East River.

    She was performing for a crowd of no more than 200 guests, who sat on crates…

  • [NYDN] Suspect in teen’s near-fatal stabbing on Bronx River Parkway to face federal charges
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 9:30:00 PM)

    A Bronx man will face federal charges after he and several others chased a teenage boy onto the Bronx River Parkway and repeatedly stabbed him last week, cops said Sunday.

    Ramon Paulino, 21, was busted on attempted murder, gang assault and assault charges for his role in the Monday afternoon attack,…

  • [NYDN] Meek Mill honors XXXTentacion, Jimmy Wopo with ‘Stay Woke’ performance at BET Awards
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 8:30:00 PM)

    Just a few months out of prison, rapper Meek Mill used the BET Awards stage to honor XXXTentacion and Jimmy Wopo, who were both shot and killed last week.

    Mill debuted his new song, “Stay Woke,” during a timely performance set in the streets of Philadelphia.

    Joined on stage by Miguel, Meek, whose…

  • [NYDN] Wildfires roar through Northern California, 12 buildings destroyed
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 8:25:00 PM)

    CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. — Wind-driven wildfires destroyed buildings and threatened hundreds of others Sunday as they raced across dry brush in rural Northern California.

    The Pawnee fire that broke out Saturday near the community of Clearlake Oaks has destroyed 12 buildings and threatened an additional…

  • [NYDN] 15-year-old boy from Honduras escapes Texas shelter for migrant children
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 8:20:00 PM)

    A 15-year-old boy from Honduras ran away from the nation’s largest facility for migrant children in Texas and may be back in Mexico.

    The teen jumped a fence and bolted Saturday afternoon during “scheduled outside time” at the Southwest Key Casa Padre shelter on the outskirts of Brownsville, according…

  • [NYDN] Deranged hubby accused of chopping off wife’s arm hauled back to Brooklyn to face charges
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 8:00:00 PM)

    The Brooklyn man accused of chopping off his pregnant wife’s arm with a steak knife will face attempted murder and assault charges, cops said Sunday.

    Yong Lu, 35, who was busted in Niagara Falls on Saturday, was hauled back to Brooklyn Sunday. He’s accused of hacking off his wife’s right arm below…

  • [NYDN] Jackson family patriarch breaks silence amid terminal cancer diagnosis — ‘I have seen more sunsets than I have left to see’
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 8:00:00 PM)

    Joe Jackson appears to be reflecting on his life as it comes to an end.

    The Jackson family patriarch, who was hospitalized Friday with terminal cancer, shared a heartbreaking message on social media last Sunday.

    “I have seen more sunsets than I have left to see,” he captioned a sunset photo on…

  • [NYDN] Ex-Red Sox star Hanley Ramirez reportedly not under federal investigation as bogus story suggested …He also probably needs a new friend
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 6:30:00 PM)

    Someone find Hanley Ramirez a new friend.

    It turns out the ex-Red Sox slugger is not actually under federal investigation regarding the distribution of fentanyl, as a straight out of left field ABC report originally suggested earlier this week.

    Instead, one of his buddies simply threw him under…

  • [NYDN] SEE IT: Ex-Met Hansel Robles gives up go-ahead home run in Angels debut… and yes, points to the sky
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 6:30:00 PM)

    Hansel Robles is still pointing to the sky.

    The ex-Met made his Angels debut against the Blue Jays Sunday, and it went as well as you’d expect.

    Robles entered the game in the 10th inning with the score tied at 6. The right-handed reliever promptly retired the first two batters before things ultimately…

  • [NYDN] Stormy Daniels’ lawyer says feds canceled meeting with Manhattan prosecutors about Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 5:35:00 PM)

    The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan nixed a meeting with Stormy Daniels for the probe into whether President Trump’s troubled lawyer Michael Cohen violated campaign finance laws with a $130,000 hush deal, her lawyer said Sunday.

    The porn star was slated to speak with prosecutors Monday, but…

  • [NYDN] President Trump claims Jimmy Fallon bragged about ‘monster ratings’ after infamous hair-ruffling ‘Tonight Show’ episode
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 5:20:00 PM)

    It’s time to choose between two reality show hosts.

    President Trump fired back after Jimmy Fallon issued a mea culpa for his controversial “Tonight Show” interview with the then-Republican nominee in September 2016, during which the late show host lobbed softball questions and ruffled the politician’s…

  • [NYDN] Clint Frazier, Yankees frustrated after potential home run deflects off speaker and ends up as a pop-out
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 5:10:00 PM)

    ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It was high. It was far. It was caught by the shortstop.

    The quirky Trop got the best of Clint Frazier and the Yankees in the ninth inning on Sunday afternoon, as the 24-year-old’s fly ball to left deflected off a speaker on the B ring catwalk, turning a possible homer into…

  • [NYDN] Body found off Long Beach may be that of drowned 10-year-old boy
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 4:55:00 PM)

    Authorities are trying to determine if a child’s body found in the waters off Long Beach, L.I., is that of a 10-year-old boy who went missing last week while swimming with his brother.

    Police on Long Island tell Newsday the body was discovered off Lincoln Blvd. on Sunday afternoon and taken to…

  • [NYPost] David Fizdale has team he wants, now he must make it work
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 6:02:39 PM)

    David Fizdale’s middle name isn’t Naismith, but Knicks brass does have confidence its brand-new coach invented basketball. Thursday’s draft was confirmation after the Knicks selected 18-year-old small forward Kevin Knox over the more established Mikal Bridges and Miles Bridges, and snagging the rawest of 20-year-olds in Louisiana mystery man Mitchell Robinson without a workout. Since…

  • [NYPost] Carmelo Anthony celebrates $28M by laughing at angry fans
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 6:31:42 AM)

    Carmelo Anthony decided that a foray into free agency wouldn’t be cost effective — and knows how angry he just made a lot of Thunder fans. The 34-year-old veteran forward decided against opting out of his player option and will stick with Oklahoma City for a $27.9 million salary in the 2018-19 season. Anthony faced…

  • [NY Newsday] David Fizdale has team he wants, now he must make it work
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 6:02:39 PM)

    David Fizdale’s middle name isn’t Naismith, but Knicks brass does have confidence its brand-new coach invented basketball. Thursday’s draft was confirmation after the Knicks selected 18-year-old small forward Kevin Knox over the more established Mikal Bridges and Miles Bridges, and snagging the rawest of 20-year-olds in Louisiana mystery man Mitchell Robinson without a workout. Since…

  • [NY Newsday] Carmelo Anthony celebrates $28M by laughing at angry fans
    (Sunday, June 24, 2018 6:31:42 AM)

    Carmelo Anthony decided that a foray into free agency wouldn’t be cost effective — and knows how angry he just made a lot of Thunder fans. The 34-year-old veteran forward decided against opting out of his player option and will stick with Oklahoma City for a $27.9 million salary in the 2018-19 season. Anthony faced…