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Knicks Morning News (2024.10.18)


  • How Knicks rookie center Ariel Hukporti is making roster push – New York Post
    [New York Post] – Thu, 17 Oct 2024 12:57:00 GMT
    1. How Knicks rookie center Ariel Hukporti is making roster push
    2. Knicks’ Tom Thibodeau Is Right, Ariel Hukporti Is Terrific
    3. The Knicks are gambling with their bench depth at one key position
    4. Hukporti making the Knicks’ roster? ‘Everything’s possible’
    5. Who Is Ariel Hukporti? Meet Knicks Potential Isaiah Hartenstein Replacement Amid Robinson News


  • Renewed Knicks have made Reggie Miller a believer – New York Post
    [New York Post] – Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:49:00 GMT
    1. Renewed Knicks have made Reggie Miller a believer
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    5. Knicks make big moves to get Karl-Anthony Towns and Mikal Bridges and look like an NBA contender


  • Knicks’ new jersey patch to feature Experience Abu Dhabi logo, furthering tie between MSG and UAE – The New York Times
    [The New York Times] – Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:16:10 GMT
    1. Knicks’ new jersey patch to feature Experience Abu Dhabi logo, furthering tie between MSG and UAE
    2. Experience Abu Dhabi’ Named Official New York Knicks Patch Partner
    3. Knicks swap Sphere patch for Abu Dhabi jersey sponsorship
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    5. Knicks Jersey Patch Deal Set With Experience Abu Dhabi


  • New York Knicks Named Landing Spot for Giannis Antetokounmpo – Sports Illustrated
    [Sports Illustrated] – Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:00:00 GMT

    New York Knicks Named Landing Spot for Giannis Antetokounmpo


  • Pelicans waive former Knicks guard who was part of 2021 playoff squad – Daily Knicks
    [Daily Knicks] – Thu, 17 Oct 2024 12:00:00 GMT

    Pelicans waive former Knicks guard who was part of 2021 playoff squad


  • Former Knicks star center suffers hand fracture in preseason game – Empire Sports Media
    [Empire Sports Media] – Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:51:25 GMT
    1. Former Knicks star center suffers hand fracture in preseason game
    2. OKC’s Hartenstein (hand) out at least 5-6 weeks
    3. Thunder’s plan to dethrone Mavericks already leaning Dallas’ way after key injury
    4. Thunder’s Isaiah Hartenstein (hand) out at least 1 month
    5. Ex-Knicks center expected to miss significant time with hand fracture (Video)


  • Knicks Bulletin: People arent doing it that much because its not sexy – Posting and Toasting
    [Posting and Toasting] – Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:00:00 GMT

    Knicks Bulletin: People arent doing it that much because its not sexy


  • Grizzlies potential trade with Knicks would give New York NBA’s best defense – Sporting News
    [Sporting News] – Thu, 17 Oct 2024 20:36:20 GMT

    Grizzlies potential trade with Knicks would give New York NBA’s best defense

  • 20 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2024.10.18)”

    I don’t know the ins and outs of this team but I didn’t see Boone do anything I’d criticize last night. The bullpen had a day off, that was the game to go for. And he got the game to Weaver vs a PH w one out to go.

    Boone seemingly has three bullpen pitchers that he trusts, and one of them might be about to go Byung-yung Kim on him. Nice work, Brian.

    It’s pathetic how poor the platoon and bench options are. Again, nice work, Brian. Cleveland won that game with home runs from two pinch hitters. Boone has no one like that to turn to.

    And I joke with Al but I know he’s right about the bottom of the order. Their unexpected production is a gift.

    Lastly I know this Jazz guy got off to a great start but he reminds me of Starlin Castro. I’m not a fan.

    All in all it looks like another F- for Brian Cashman’s work beyond the stars. The Dodgers seem like they’re in another league, and I wouldn’t expect us to fare any better than the Mets.

    As much as they drive me fucking nuts the Yankees are winning the World Series this year.

    I’m not sure I agree a lack of PH options is a deep structural flaw. I mean, in a way, if you have stellar PH options it just means your starting lineup isn’t being optimized.

    The structural flaws of the roster that are revealing themselves to some extent are:

    1) the wasted money going to DJ and Rizzo

    2) a relatively shallow rotation in terms of guys who can reliably get you through 5-6, which in turn taxes a bullpen that was kind of hastily thrown together using Matt Blake voodoo

    Man, if we never came back I’d be fine. That was an absolute must win for them and pure house money for us. But we did, so I’m still grieving.

    I felt super bad for Shamet but then I looked it up and found out he has been paid twenty-nine millions of dollars for playing basketball up to now. He’ll be fine.

    Yeah, the lack of news on Shamet is frustrating.

    Is it true that so long as a player’s contract is non-guaranteed, that if he is waived at any point, his salary is pro-rated at that point and whoever is signed to a vet’s minimum deal is then signed for a pro-rated amount so it is a wash? In other words, if we waive Shamet for now, then sign Warren or some other vet to a non-guaranteed minimum deal, we can waive that player before the guarantee kicks in and sign Shamet or a different vet and still stay under the second apron because the two players add up to one vet’s minimum contract? Can you do this multiple times?

    The structural flaw isn’t the lack of pinch hitters, it’s the lack of quality supporting the stars. Last night’s lineup from 5-9 (Jazz, Berti, Volpe, Verdugo, Trevino) was a humiliating testament to Cashman’s ineptitude and a brutal reminder to what watching this team has been like in the postseason throughout his tenure. Yoshi Toranaga would have told Brian Cashman to commit seppuku for making his manager trot that out.

    And it seems like the bullpen has a similar structural problem, even with the unexpected emergence of Weaver. What happened to the two arms he picked up at the deadline? They hurt or they just suck?

    Schimdt seems like a gamer, I’ll give him that. We’ll see about Gil tonight.

    Shamet going from making 2.5 million to 15k is fucking rough

    Seriously?

    I’m sure Landry Shamet is a nice fellow and all that, but he has made 29 million F-en dollars in his career. He’s vested into his pension with the NBAPA. He should be in a pretty good spot to withstand the unfortunate injury.

    I’ve got folks sleeping on subway grates around the corner from my 10th st apartment. We’ve got hundreds of thousands of folks displaced by a hurricane where I read today, many won’t have electricity for months if they have the semblance of a home left.

    Hard for me to get all teary-eyed for poor old Landry. Bad break for him, but he’s in a way better spot than almost everyone on planet earth.

    I don’t know the ins and outs of this team but I didn’t see Boone do anything I’d criticize last night.

    He played Austin Wells.

    His team fucked up running the bases 4 times in the last 2 games. At some point that’s on him.

    I will say that the Yankees lost a bunch of games this season very similar to last night hence my love hate relationship with the 2024 Yankees. Holmes by himself had 13 blown saves. But they’ve always been able to shrug them off and move on to the next game so I’m not expecting any mental hangovers since they’re used to dealing with heartbreaking losses.

    Just jump on the awful Cleveland SP and give Gil some breathing room so he can hopefully settle in and throw 6 dominant innings like he’s done several times this year.

    The Yankees have two catchers. Trevino is fine for a backup and if Wells was actually hitting you wouldn’t see Trevino get playing time. Wells is most likely going to to win Rookie Of The Year btw.

    It’s a shame. Shamet would have been really useful to this team. I’m thinking that Warren was looking like a real nice vet pickup for some team. That should probably be us now as we’re done with training camp.

    I do feel bad for Landry. He’s likely a human being. That movie Anora was pretty damn good. Baker’s best since Tangerine.

    Not sure what to expect from Gil, but Gavin Williams sucks and the Yankees should score runs off him.

    Wells seems like a very good player mired in an untimely slump. I like him a lot.

    He does not seem like someone who should be batting cleanup after Soto & Judge, though. I assume he’s just there because Cashman whiffed on three positions like he always does.

    How nice would it be if Hukporti is the real deal?

    It’s like all the Mets’ weaknesses have been totally exposed by the Dodgers, and they are many. Stearns did a nice job patching over the holes in the house, but some remodeling/rebuilding is needed. The team will look a lot different next year.

    As for now, putting JD Martinez out to pasture is well past due. And, I really thought they’d give McNeil a look in game 1. Iglesias’s post season has not been good. Hey, he had a Cinderella regular season, but the clock struck midnight on him a while back, too.

    Maybe Peterson has some magic left today, b/c they desperately need it.

    Landry is most definitely, without a doubt, a human being.

    The reason the Knicks are unable to talk about his current status is because he is part of a very, very complicated trade that is in the works for Luka Doncic.

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