Knicks Morning News (2018.09.05)

Kevin Knox has already imagined what many view unlikely. The new Knicks wing isn’t looking at his rookie year as merely a developmental season. He’s thinking playoffs. “In the West, you need about 50 [wins],” Knox, the ninth pick in the draft out of Kentucky, said on ESPN’s “First Take” on Tuesday. “In the East,…

Kevin Knox has already imagined what many view unlikely. The new Knicks wing isn’t looking at his rookie year as merely a developmental season. He’s thinking playoffs. “In the West, you need about 50 [wins],” Knox, the ninth pick in the draft out of Kentucky, said on ESPN’s “First Take” on Tuesday. “In the East,…

A Rikers Island inmate who was found dead in his cell had a compression sock in his mouth, the Daily News has learned.

Correction and NYPD investigators are trying to figure out how inmate David McPeck died Aug. 27 inside the Anna M. Kross Center.

No other inmates were spotted on surveillance cameras…

Andrew Findley finished a 24-year sentence in 2015 for dealing crack — and then his troubles really began.

The 44-year-old was taken into ICE custody after doing his time because the government believes he was born in Jamaica and should be deported due to his criminal record.

Findley, who says…

Paranoia, vulgarity, tangent-rambling, detachment from reality, first class conspiracy theorist. Rage, fear, loathing. That was the portrait of Richard Nixon via Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

Paranoia, vulgarity, tangent-rambling, detachment from reality. Rage, fear, loathing. That IS the portrait…

She is the key.

When President Trump chided Bob Woodward last month over not interviewing him for his new book, Woodward protested he had repeatedly reached out to at least six senior White House aides about a potential sit-down.

“Did you speak to Madeleine?” was Trump’s first question, according…

When we look back decades from now on Mayor de Blasio’s tenure running New York City schools, one theme will emerge: There are way more children and families who want great schools than there are great schools for them.

More than a million kids are fighting for a number of great schools that they…

Good news: Thanks to smart and timely cooperation between Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo, youngsters will walk to school this morning without having to worry about cars zooming unchecked through school zones.

Bad news: On other fronts, reform is proceeding at far too sluggish a pace for the million-plus…

Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer is rescinding his endorsement of Public Advocate Letitia James in her bid to be attorney general and is instead backing Zephyr Teachout, he told the Daily News.

In an interview, Van Bramer told the News he’d made his decision after watching the campaigns run by both…

Defending her decision to resist the pernicious anti-Israel boycotters and appear at this week’s Meteor Festival in Israel, Lana Del Rey told her 8.9 million Twitter followers that she was a “simple singer,” that “music is universal,” and that performing in Israel “is not a political statement.”…

When the Twin Towers came down, George Bender’s life was altered in an indelible way.

The retired police detective, who made 500 arrests during his decorated career, lost one of his best friends that day. He spent the days and weeks that followed working at the shattered site, combing the debris…

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Brooklyn: Nike announced that the black football player Colin Kaepernick is the new poster boy for its annual “Just Do It” campaign (“Nike’s Colin Kaepernick advertising campaign sparks backlash and shoe-burning protests,” Sept. 4). Kaepernick is well known as the individual who launched the campaign…

In the longest match of this year’s U.S. Open, No. 1 seed Rafael Nadal survived a five-set slugfest against No. 9 Dominic Thiem, 0-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (7-5), to advance to the semifinals.

The grueling battle, which lasted 4 hours, 49 minutes, was tied 5-5 in the final-set tiebreak until…

OAKLAND — They aren’t going down without a fight. Luke Voit homered to lead off the eighth inning to rally the Yankees to a 5-1 win over the A’s Tuesday and keep their battle for the top wild card spot alive and well.

The win gives the Yankees back a 4.5-game lead over the A’s for the American…

A sick robber raped a woman as she walked across a bridge linking Washington Heights to the Bronx, police said Tuesday.

The creep confronted his 20-year-old victim at 1:30 a.m. Aug. 25, as she walked to Manhattan across the Washington Bridge, which spans the Harlem River near W. 181st St., cops…

Like every iconic athlete, Serena Williams loves a challenge.

Here’s what she faced in her quarterfinal match Tuesday night against Karolina Pliskova: a 2-4 deficit in the first set and the danger of going down by a second service break against a player who had beaten her at the U.S. Open in 2016.

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Unconsciously, CC Sabathia let it slip, the elephant in the room that has been inevitable for the Yankees for a while now. After the big lefthander got roughed up by a young, scrappy and hungry A’s lineup Monday afternoon, despite being the last time in the regular season Sabathia would face the…

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for September 5, 2018

We don’t know what to do with our persistent uncertainty, especially if we must defend our actions against someone’s criticism. Mercury’s awkward alignment with warrior Mars makes it difficult to know when to hold and when to fold. The…

A deaf ex-con was ordered held without bail after police said he tried to rape a home attendant in an East Village housing complex for the disabled.

Police on Monday arrested Julio Mendez, 43, accusing him of luring the 46-year-old woman out of the laundry room in the Tanya Towers complex on E….

A city Department of Consumer Affairs investigation found that 42 home care agencies failed to provide basic paid sick leave to their staffers.

The department’s enforcement staff secured more than $42,000 in restitution for more than 300 workers as part of the broad investigation into the industry…

He’s also the King of Queens.

LeBron James visited Christ the King High School on Tuesday morning, gifting the school with a new locker room and gear for the teams.

He entered the school’s gym to surprise students, who quickly whipped out their phones to capture the unforgettable moment.

James…

Boston is all but set to send its first black woman to Congress after an upstart city councilor upset a longtime incumbent in Tuesday’s Democratic primary.

Ayanna Pressley, 44, who had already been the first black woman to serve on the council, achieved another first, unseating U.S. Rep. Michael…

Fifteen years after two Florida men went missing, Tyler Perry and a prominent civil rights lawyer are suing a former Florida sheriff’s deputy, the last person to see both men alive.

Deputy Steve Calkins allegedly pulled Terrance Williams over in January 2004 for driving with a suspended license….

OAKLAND — Aaron Judge faced major league pitching Tuesday — sort of.

The Yankees slugger is still weeks away from his return to the lineup, but in another small step forward in his rehab, he repeated his work hitting off a tee and then tracked pitches in Masahiro Tanaka’s side session.

“Judge came…

A police officer sent to check out a reported car in Friendswood, Texas, accident got an even bigger surprise when he allegedly caught a man pleasuring himself in the driver’s seat of his truck while watching schoolkids using a crosswalk, according to a police report.

The alleged incident occurred…

ALBANY – With just over a week left before the Democratic gubernatorial primary, actress Cynthia Nixon said Tuesday she has no plans of putting her own money into the race with Gov. Cuomo.

While Cuomo has already spent millions of dollars in television ads, Nixon’s campaign has not raised enough…