Years and years in the making and now it’s here and words fail. Let’s start with the facts, because I don’t need to think of them, just to record them. The New York Knicks are champions of the NBA. Jalen Brunson, a benchwarmer’s toddler in the locker room during the 1999 Finals run, is the […]
As I write these words, the Spurs lead the Knicks 59-38, about halfway (!!!) through the second quarter. It was worse a minute ago but we just got a couple of transition layups by Brunson. Spurs called a timeout, I’m watching a Popeye’s commercial. I have two little kids who need to get out of […]
Breathe. At 9:07 PM Eastern time this evening, late in the first quarter of Game 1 of the NBA Finals, the Spurs’ Harrison Barnes went flying into Jalen Brunson’s lower leg. The Knicks captain grimaced, and limped, and asked off. He doesn’t ask off. He went to the locker room in obvious pain. And, just […]
Somewhere along the path from my time occupying this virtual real estate to today, I picked up a reputation as a Knicks optimist. I’m not certain that this would have been entirely predictable in the days when I was writing a midseason Knicks/Bucks recap about Mike Woodson and the team displaying the classic “Four Horsemen” […]