Knicks Morning News (2018.12.11)

  • [Hoops Rumors] Knicks’ Allonzo Trier To Get New Deal This Week?
    (Monday, December 10, 2018 12:37:15 PM)

    The Knicks are expected to convert Allonzo Trier‘s two-way contract into a standard NBA contract at some point this week, a source tells Adam Zagoria of ZagsBlog.com. Trier is set to hit the 45-day NBA limit on his two-way deal soon, so New York would have to give him a spot on the 15-man roster […]

  • [NYPost] Youth movement is taking over New York sports — and it’s great
    (Monday, December 10, 2018 8:49:38 PM)

    We are forever looking for signs, because that’s what we’ve been reduced to. We could sit around and X off the calendar until pitchers and catchers report to Yankees camp — that would be 64 days, as of Tuesday — when our next sure thing rises again, or we can look around Everywhere Else, looking,…

  • [NYPost] The ‘fast track’ behind Kevin Knox’s huge Knicks breakout
    (Monday, December 10, 2018 9:08:27 AM)

    Two players in NBA history have scored at least 25 points and grabbed at least 15 rebounds in one game before their 20th birthdays. One is LeBron James, among the greatest players of all time. The other is Kevin Knox, who is nowhere close to being spoken about in those terms, but who accomplished that…

  • [NYTimes] Stephen Curry Doubts Moon Landings. NASA Offers to Show Him the Rocks.
    (Tuesday, December 11, 2018 6:14:51 AM)

    The space agency invited the Golden State star to visit the Johnson Space Center, “perhaps the next time the Warriors are in town to play the Rockets.”

  • [NYTimes] On Pro Basketball: If Jim Boylen Doesn’t Soften on Bulls, Expect Another Change in Chicago
    (Tuesday, December 11, 2018 5:16:07 AM)

    Boylen who replaced the fired Fred Hoiberg, has taken an old-school, hard-edge approach to coaching the young Bulls. It isn’t working.