Month: July 2018

Enes Kanter admits that the market wouldn’t have been good had he decided to opt-out from the Knicks.

The N.B.A.’s free agency period officially began at 12:01 a.m. Where will the big names, including LeBron James, land?

No other sports league has a free agency quite like the N.B.A., but the action is at a standstill until LeBron James decides where he wants to go.

As free agency began at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, so did the clock on whether Kristaps Porzingis has a chance of receiving a contract extension this summer with the Knicks. Porzingis can sign a $155 million extension July 6. But if there’s hope of any extension signed by October’s deadline, it won’t be so quickly. The…

With the Knicks mulling re-signing Michael Beasley, they expressed interest in Pistons power forward Anthony Tolliver early Sunday morning when free agency began. The Knicks are offering one-year deals with their $8.4 million mid-level exception as they hunt for a starting power forward as Kristaps Porzingis heals from knee surgery. The journeyman 33-year-old improved his…

It looks like you can add Kevin Durant to the list of 2019 free agents the Knicks will salivate over. Multiple reports stated Durant came to a one-year agreement shortly after midnight Sunday with the Warriors that will include a surprising second-year opt-out. According to a source, the only issue entering free agency was the…

Luke Kornet has participated in David Fizdale’s workouts the past five weeks, the new Knicks coach hoping to add another dimension to Kornet’s game and make him not just a 3-point, big-man specialist. Fizdale wants the 7-foot free-agent Kornet to be able to take it to the rim and finish with authority if the 3-pointer…

As free agency began at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, so did the clock on whether Kristaps Porzingis has a chance of receiving a contract extension this summer with the Knicks. Porzingis can sign a $155 million extension July 6. But if there’s hope of any extension signed by October’s deadline, it won’t be so quickly. The…

With the Knicks mulling re-signing Michael Beasley, they expressed interest in Pistons power forward Anthony Tolliver early Sunday morning when free agency began. The Knicks are offering one-year deals with their $8.4 million mid-level exception as they hunt for a starting power forward as Kristaps Porzingis heals from knee surgery. The journeyman 33-year-old improved his…

It looks like you can add Kevin Durant to the list of 2019 free agents the Knicks will salivate over. Multiple reports stated Durant came to a one-year agreement shortly after midnight Sunday with the Warriors that will include a surprising second-year opt-out. According to a source, the only issue entering free agency was the…

Luke Kornet has participated in David Fizdale’s workouts the past five weeks, the new Knicks coach hoping to add another dimension to Kornet’s game and make him not just a 3-point, big-man specialist. Fizdale wants the 7-foot free-agent Kornet to be able to take it to the rim and finish with authority if the 3-pointer…

For Francis Facciolo, five frustrating hours unsuccessfully trying to connect a $70 cord from his iPad to his television led to a two-year legal battle against the world’s most profitable corporation.

The David vs. Goliath showdown in Brooklyn Small Claims Court ended last month in defeat for the…

A court fight over NXIVM-linked real estate is getting real bitter.

Brooklyn federal prosecutors want to seize two upstate properties that, they say, are the scenes of crimes for a salacious sex cult led by NXIVM guru Keith Raniere and his alleged lecherous lieutenant, actress Allison Mack.

But…

LUCKNOW, India — At least 30 people were killed on Sunday when an overcrowded bus plunged off a mountain road into a gorge in northern India, officials said.

Chief Minister of Uttarakhand state Trivendra Rawat said the bus fell into a 700-foot (213-meter) deep gorge in the Himalayan foothills….

When I ran for Speaker of the City Council four years ago, very few gave me a chance. I was too aloof. I was too progressive. I worked hard and I won, but still, many said that I owed my success to someone else — or that I’d carry people’s water. These were the challenges I faced, running as a…

One does not immediately think of Abraham Lincoln or the Civil War when pondering the meaning of the Fourth of July. The nation’s founders, whom Lincoln revered despite their flaws, deserve full credit for American independence. Men of George Washington’s era fought the battles that made America…

TOKYO — A rocket developed by a Japanese startup company burst into flames seconds after a failed liftoff Saturday in northern Japan.

The MOMO-2 rocket, developed by Interstellar Technologies, was launched in Taiki town on Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island. It was supposed to reach as…

An Indian fan visiting Russia for the World Cup died after a car accident on Saturday, the first death of a visitor to the international tournament.

The unidentified man was a passenger in a car on the highway near the southern host city of Sochi when the vehicle he was riding in collided with…

Hats off to Mayor de Blasio and Councilmembers Brad Lander, Rafael Espinal and Inez Barron, who’ve teamed up to allow some basements to be used as living quarters — they are anyway — where building and fire rules currently forbid it.

That’s a great idea, long discussed. Show these underground apartments…

On this date 100 years ago, July 1, 1918, a dozen new subway stations opened, stretching down 7th Ave. from Penn Station to South Ferry. One of those brand new stations was the one at Cortlandt St.

In the 1960s, it would be enveloped when the World Trade Center was built. On 9/11, when the towers…

Star of the world’s worst rom-com, President Trump again rejects the disapproving counsel of smarter and more mature outside voices — U.S. intelligence, NATO partners, anyone with good sense — to flaunt his forbidden passion for international man of misery Vladimir Putin.

Their latest scheduled…

Dollar vans organizations — whose members want to maintain safe conditions for their passengers, drivers and industry — are backing proposed legislation to have their vehicles fall under the jurisdiction of the city’s Taxi & Limousine Commission.

Each year, tens of thousands of New Yorkers rely…

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. — President Donald Trump claimed Saturday that he never pushed House Republicans to vote for immigration bills that failed last week, offering his latest display of whiplash on the legislation.

Trump tweeted from his New Jersey golf club that he didn’t press GOP lawmakers…

Refugees were among 9 people wounded after a man went on a stabbing spree in Idaho, according to police.

Officers in Boise arrested the unidentified 30-year-old Saturday night, but said that they “are still investigating why the suspect targeted these individuals.”

“This incident is not a representation…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Authorities say a Florida man charged with fatally shooting his pregnant wife texted from her cellphone to make it seem like she was still alive.

Fort Lauderdale police say 20-year-old Martine Bernard’s body was found earlier this month in an alley behind the home she shared…

E-hail a boon, Access-a-Ride a pain

Brooklyn: I couldn’t agree more with Voicer Steve Dolman on the e-hail program versus Access-A-Ride. I lost most of my sight last year to a neurological disease. My first thought was, “How am I going to continue to work?” I rely on this service to take me from…

NEW YORK — For evangelical Christian leaders like Jerry Falwell Jr., this is their political holy grail.

Like many religious conservatives in a position to know, the Liberty University president with close ties to the White House suspects that the Supreme Court vacancy President Donald Trump fills…

Jim Adkisson got lockjaw when his sentencing judge gave the confessed rage killer a chance to address members of the Tennessee church where he had launched a shotgun attack.

There would be no contrition from this angry man.

“No, ma’am,” sneered the 58-year-old former truck driver. “I have nothing…

Long gone are the days of David Ortiz and Pedro Martinez tormenting the Yankees, but the Red Sox seem to have some new players to give their AL East foe nightmares.

Chris Sale and Rafael Devers are proving to be the kryptonite for the Bronx Bombers these days and demonstrated why in a 11-0 shellacking…

An armed robbery suspect running from cops fell onto subway tracks in the Bronx early Sunday — and was killed either by the third rail or the train that soon hit him, authorities said.

Officers were chasing the man on foot just after midnight when he fell to the tracks at the Fordham Road/Jerome…

A 36-year-old man was fatally shot on a Bronx street by his ex-girlfriend’s new beau late Saturday, police sources said.

The man was at the corner of University Ave. and Morton Place in Morris Heights when the aggrieved boyfriend blasted him in the head and back around 10 p.m., according to cops.

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NEW DELHI — Police in the Indian capital said Sunday they found 11 bodies in a village home in mysterious circumstances, 10 of them blindfolded and hanging from the roof.

Police officer Vineet Kumar said all of them belonged to a family and most had lived in one home in Burari village in the northern…

Police in Portland, Oregon, have ordered participants in a march by Patriot Prayer to disperse after officers saw assaults and projectiles being thrown.

Police said Saturday that some arrests have been made at the downtown protest involving immigration.

The problems occurred as two opposing protest…

A bad night could’ve gotten a lot worse for the Yankees on Saturday, but a precautionary MRI on Austin Romine’s left hamstring came back negative. He is listed as day-to-day.

Romine came out of the team’s 11-0 loss to the Red Sox due to left hamstring tightness, which prompted the MRI. He grounded…

As gunfire rang out inside his Maryland newsroom, Capital Gazette reporter Phil Davis jumped under his desk.

He couldn’t see what happened next — fatal bullets ripping into five of his colleagues — but he could hear it.

“I heard everyone get shot,” Davis, a crime reporter, told The Baltimore Sun….

LeBron James’ influence over the NBA is so profound that he dominated the free agency conversation last summer while still under contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

At 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, LeBron officially becomes an unrestricted free agent so get ready for what will be an eventful few days/weeks…