Day: October 20, 2018

The Warriors are reportedly bracing for Kevin Durant to leave in free agency next summer. The New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers will take a run at the back-to-back Finals MVP, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Durant already plays for the best team in a desirable location.

It came down to one former Wolverine against another. And Caris LeVert beat Tim Hardaway Jr.

LeVert polished off his exquisite 28-point night by driving past his former Michigan teammate in isolation and finishing an off-balance lay-in with one second remaining. It gave the Nets a dramatic 107-105…

Sam Darnold is being very diplomatic.

The Jets rookie QB was at Barclays Center Friday night to watch the Knicks battle the Nets in an eventual thrilling 107-105 victory for Brooklyn, but he was not taking any sides in the so-called rivalry.

“Coming here to support the Knicks AND the Nets,” Darnold…

Courtney Lee still hasn’t played.

The oldest player on the Knicks roster, who has two years and $25 million remaining on his contract, suffered further neck spasms and was inactive for Friday’s game against the Nets, according to coach David Fizdale.

The Knicks have been trying to trade Lee since…

Even before Kevin Knox fell to the Knicks and became the ninth overall pick, his coach at Kentucky, John Calipari, predicted several teams ultimately would regret passing on the youngest player in this year’s NBA draft. Calipari easily envisioned a path to stardom for Knox because he believed he had just seen it, following the…

Enes Kanter almost always has his way with the Nets’ smaller front line — he’s a menacing bull at Barclays Center. When the Knicks needed three points to tie Friday night, Kanter got them, barreling to the bucket after a pocket pass from Trey Burke off a pick-and-roll with 15.9 seconds left. Kanter scored the…

Spencer Dinwiddie, who boasted the Nets are better than the Knicks, nearly saw his mouth write a check his behind couldn’t cash. But after the Nets pulled the game out at the end, D’Angelo Russell called it a game his team is expected to win. “Get the wins you’re supposed to win,” Russell said after…

Spencer Dinwiddie may have been right when he boasted during the preseason that the Nets are “better than Knicks.” If so, it’s not by much. After losing all four of last season’s games against the Knicks, the Nets needed every second of the first of four meetings to prove Dinwiddie’s point, with Caris LeVert’s driving…

For a dead rivalry, this was compelling theater. In a thrilling second half, the Knicks rallied from an 11-point hole with a third-quarter blitzkrieg. They exchanged leads with the Nets in the final minutes, as Knicks rookie Kevin Knox snapped out of his funk, grabbing clutch offensive rebounds and sinking big buckets down the stretch….

“They have to be good at the same time. Being bad at the same time doesn’t help,” Jeff Van Gundy, the former Knicks coach, said before the Nets won a thriller between the New York teams on Friday.

In his first game with the Lakers, James worked hard to communicate with his teammates and build the chemistry they’ll need in the unforgiving Western Conference.

In a 128-119 loss, James made some thrilling dunks but it was not enough against a strong finish by Portland.

Enes Kanter is a man of many interests, but one of his deepest passions lies in professional wrestling

It was a disappointing last few seconds for the Knicks, and a game which saw some bad defensive mistakes, but New York’s two neophytes had good showings which is really all that matters.

Shaquille O’Neal doesn’t think the Knicks are going anywhere anytime soon — or ever.

Enes Kanter spoke about his obsession for professional wrestling in a recent profile with Vice, in which he revealed he is already talking to WWE executives about becoming a wrestler.