[news.google.com] — Friday, July 28, 2023 6:00:00 AM
YouTube Gold: Larry Johnson Was A Duke Nemesis Then Became A Powerful NBA Presence Duke Basketball Report
[news.google.com] — Friday, July 28, 2023 1:16:00 AM
Knicks: Joel Embiid, Sixers trolled by Stephen A Smith with Knicks claim ClutchPoints
[news.google.com] — Thursday, July 27, 2023 7:03:11 PM
Takeaways and surprises from ESPN’s latest NBA Power Rankings Hoops Habit
[news.google.com] — Thursday, July 27, 2023 5:00:45 PM
Donovan Mitchell extension speculation is music to ears of Knicks fans Daily Knicks
[news.google.com] — Thursday, July 27, 2023 4:46:37 PM
Knicks Player Reveals Derrick Rose’s Reaction to Being Benched Sports Illustrated
[news.google.com] — Thursday, July 27, 2023 4:03:27 PM
Why Knicks Did Not Go All-in on OG Anunoby: Insider Heavy.com
[news.google.com] — Thursday, July 27, 2023 3:51:27 PM
Did Mavs Losing Jalen Brunson to Knicks Change NBA’s New CBA Sports Illustrated
[news.google.com] — Thursday, July 27, 2023 3:40:00 PM
New York Notes: Randle, Knicks, Long Island Nets, Simmons hoopsrumors.com
[news.google.com] — Thursday, July 27, 2023 3:13:05 PM
New York Knicks Front Office Staffer Brock Aller Due for Promotion? Sports Illustrated
[news.google.com] — Thursday, July 27, 2023 2:20:53 PM
NBA rumors: Spurs linked to potential trade involving Knicks’ Evan Fournier ClutchPoints
[news.google.com] — Thursday, July 27, 2023 2:14:10 PM
Knicks: RJ Barrett Branded as ‘Weakest Link’ in Rotation Heavy.com
[news.google.com] — Thursday, July 27, 2023 1:10:46 PM
Idea of Donovan Mitchell to Knicks down the line ‘not far-fetched’? Hoops Hype
[news.google.com] — Thursday, July 27, 2023 12:54:21 PM
Knicks Trade For Cavaliers’ Donovan Mitchell In Proposal NBA Analysis Network
[news.google.com] — Thursday, July 27, 2023 12:38:13 PM
RJ Barrett’s role, Immanuel Quickley’s future, Knicks predictions and more The Athletic
[news.google.com] — Thursday, July 27, 2023 9:23:00 AM
New York Knicks Sign Dylan Windler NBA.com
19 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2023.07.28)”
Mention of our own Brock Aller in the up-and-coming exec article:
https://sports.yahoo.com/identifying-the-nbas-next-wave-of-front-office-executives-153300658.html
Houston, Philly, and Denver have great analytics guys. Forget Embiid tell Rose to chase them.
The whole idea of Landry Fields being a high-level executive is so weird to me. Always liked the guy, but it’s sort of like when your little boy or girl suddenly sprouts up and goes off to college — when the hell did that happen?
Yeah definitely. Feels very quick for him to become GM. Maybe should’ve spent more time among the rank and file.
If the Dejounte/Trae pairing doesn’t work out he’ll probably be on the chopping block.
I will say desire to see him succeed is heavily mitigated by him working for Atlanta.
Wow, Mets fans. A second Billy Eppler sell trade that I like — Escobar and now Robertson. Who goes next?
Maybe the guy is much better at selling than buying?
Things that I learned yesterday:
1. It’s the dog-days of the NBA summer.
2. Shosomething Ohtani, aka “The Pride of Los Angeles”, had the greatest single day in baseball history.
3. The guy who plays the ridiculous 4 octave baritone sax solo on Little Feat’s 1978 Waiting For Columbus live performance of Mercenary Territory is former Tower of Power member and current SNL Bandleader Lenny Pickett.
Tower of Power did a very crowded Tiny Desk concert.
Happy 80th, Bill Bradley. Happy 25th, Frank.
JJ Reddick loves Grimes (and Quickley).
https://twitter.com/NBA_NewYork/status/1685004797630455809
This seems to be shaping up as a seller’s market at the MLB deadline, with the tone being set by the Angels paying a rather exorbitant price for a couple of mediocre starters.
Robertson is a 39 year old rental reliever, and he brought back a guy who will probably end the year as a top 5 Mets prospect and a top 100 prospect overall in Marco Vargas, who is a shortstop with a 55 hit tool. The catcher they got as a throw-in is also a legit prospect, has received high defensive grades and also has plus exit velocity.
They’re both in the very low minors and are obviously many years away, but I am very pleased to pick up two nice lottery ticket type prospects for a superfluous reliever.
Shams, re Thanasis: “ Antetokounmpo chose return to the Bucks over multiple options, including Knicks, sources said. Brothers Giannis and Thanasis, Brook and Robin Lopez all reunited in Milwaukee for next season.”
Huh. IIRC, the brothers allegedly hate the Knicks because Phil released Thanasis or some such.
Obviously we were offering Thanasis the full BAE, lol
How’s your health holding up, Alan?
I’m back in Frank’s place of work again, EB. Though allegedly for the final time, which would be nice.
The Yankees’ approach at the deadline will be interesting. There’s no clear playbook for a team with a ~30% chance to make the playoffs. My personal preference is a mini-sell (the expiring guys and some relievers, I suppose) and telling Judge to just get the surgery and be 100% for next year, but I have a strong feeling we’ll go in the other direction.
Given that we only have so many years of Judge and Cole and their primes, and that basically anything can happen in the MLB playoffs, I can’t say pursuing immediate talent upgrades is an outrage. If Grichuk or whoever else can be had for fringe guys, go for it I guess.
But giving up substantial prospects for rentals would be unambiguously stupid. This team is not good and hasn’t been good for over a full year now. Sadly, it’s looking like Stanton, DJ, and Rizzo aging so quickly will be what closes the book on the post 2017 era.
JK47:
Lots of Mets fans griped about not getting pitchers back, but that’s okay. Legit SS, C, and CF prospects are pretty good, too. Vargas may not end up a SS (he’s got 7 errors in 30+ games this year), but the guy seems like a premium hitting prospect. The C, Hernandez, sounds like at least a very good defensive/hard working C prospect, maybe more if he can continue to hit. I hope they give both a taste of A ball before the end of the season.
The big question now is do they actually move Verlander, and for what?
Donnie, IMO Waiting for Columbus is one of the greatest live albums ever, but I never focused in on Mercenary Territory. Went back and listened again and holy crap, that sax solo. It’s a wonder he didn’t blow out a lung!
Mercenary Territory is an unbelievably underrated song, and especially that performance. It has, literally, the greatest rock sax solo I’ve ever heard, and yet I’d never found any reference to it anywhere. Then last night, deep in the comments of an obscure forum (not unlike this one, I suppose:), I finally found my answer as to who the hell that was blowing that horn.
I typically don’t like the saxophone in rock and roll. It is often miscast and almost always sounds cheesy. The few exceptions I can come up with are:
1) obviously, Sonny Rollins on Waiting On A Friend
2) Garth Hudson on It Makes No Difference
3) whoever it is playing on the INXS song Never Tear Us Apart (for some reason I just think that sax was a good decision, and I don’t even like that band or that song all that much)
4) some Wayne Shorter solos from the recordings of various artists that JK47 can’t stand (sorry JK)
5) a handful of Clarence Clemons solos.
I think that’s it. Am I missing any? Oh, maybe
6) Walk on the Wild Side. That sax fits the vibe well.
I’m sure there are others that I just haven’t related to. But, man, that Lenny Pickett work on Mercenary Territory, along with that series of modulations the preceded it, is really one of the great minute and a halfs of music that I’ve ever enjoyed.
SAXOPHONE IN ROCK SONGS THAT I LIKE OKAY ENOUGH OTHER THAN THE FINE EXAMPLES THAT DONNIE LISTED
1. Pink Floyd – Us And Them. Pretty tasteful. Seems to fit the mood.
2. Supertramp – The Logical Song. Many people find this song and saxophone solo hideously grating, and I understand their point of view. I have a soft spot for Supertramp’s big radio hits, mostly because I love the glorious 70’s 24-track 2″ tape hi fidelity of it all. And it’s hard to imagine this song without that almost mocking saxophone solo. Fight me.
3. Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street. You just gotta admit that’s an epic sax lick.
4. David Bowie – Young Americans. It’s David Sanborn, who doesn’t exactly score you tons of “cool” points. Appropriate for the song though.
5. Steely Dan – Aja. Almost doesn’t count, because is this song really rock? The sax solo in this by Wayne Shorter happens simultaneously with a pretty insane Steve Gadd drum solo, and the whole thing is really in the fusion kind of space more than anything else. Great tasteful solo in a band that’s usually considered to be a rock band so I’ll allow it.
6. X-Ray Spex – Oh, Bondage Up Yours! Saxphones translates pretty well to punk rock, because it’s usually used as a skronk generator. The Stooges utilized some skronky sax on Fun House. Nobody’s blowing any smooth jazz licks here.
7. Roxy Music – Re-Make/Re-Model but also many other songs. I almost always like whatever Andy Mackay has going on in Roxy’s songs. Sometimes he’s a textural player, and sometimes he’s re-framing rock saxophone tropes in the Roxy Music context.
I always liked the solo in Urgent by Foreigner.