Knicks Morning News (2019.04.15)

  • [Hoops Rumors] Knicks Notes: Roster, Robinson, Durant, Ewing
    (Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:04:03 PM)

    Kevin Knox, Mitchell Robinson and Damyean Dotson are the only current Knicks who should definitely be on the roster next season, writes Steve Popper of Newsday. Knox showed enough promise at age 19 to hold onto, Robinson was a second-round surprise who became the league’s second-best shot blocker and Dotson is a part-time starter with […]

  • [ESPN] MacLeod, Suns’ all-time wins leader, dies at 81
    (Monday, April 15, 2019 12:51:07 AM)

    John MacLeod, the winningest coach in Suns history, died Sunday, the team announced. MacLeod, 81, also coached the Mavericks and Knicks. In the college ranks, he was the head coach at both Oklahoma and Notre Dame.

  • [NYTimes] Sports of the Times: Mike Budenholzer Has Come a Long Way From Bucket of Blood Street
    (Sunday, April 14, 2019 9:30:05 PM)

    The coach of the N.B.A.-best Bucks learned basketball from his father and Native Americans while growing up amid a melting pot in the Arizona high desert.

  • [NYTimes] N.B.A. Photographers ‘Do It for the Gram,’ Too
    (Monday, April 15, 2019 12:55:05 AM)

    New technology and the rise of social media have changed what it means to take pictures of the N.B.A. One new requirement: making the athletes look good on Instagram.

  • [NYPost] Durant may be answer to Knicks veterans’ Allonzo Trier disdain
    (Sunday, April 14, 2019 8:40:48 PM)

    If Kevin Durant becomes a Knick, rookie guard Allonzo Trier will have at least one teammate who will like him. Trier admitted last week he’s “absolutely’’ hoping the Knicks can land his mentor from Oklahoma City, where the Arizona product attended two years of high school. However, according to multiple sources connected to the Knicks,…

  • [SNY Knicks] Game of Thrones predictions and Season 8 theories from NY athletes
    (Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:00:04 AM)

    Winter is here. With Game of Thrones set to return Sunday for its eighth and final season, New York athletes gave their predictions and talked about theories for how the saga will end.