Knicks Morning News (2017.04.05)

The Knicks put forth a well balanced offensive attacked Tuesday night to defeat the Bulls,100-91.

With five games remaining in the season, Carmelo Anthony’s tenure in New York could be coming to a close.

Knicks great Patrick Ewing has been hired as the next coach of Georgetown men’s basketball.

Kristaps Porzingis switched places with Carmelo Anthony and sat out Tuesday night with a sore lower back. Porzingis could soon be switching places with Anthony as the face of the Knicks.

Could Carmelo Anthony’s time with the Knicks be up after this season?

Westbrook clinched his 41st triple-double early in the third quarter against the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday.

Joel Berry, a point guard for the North Carolina Tar Heels, spoke after guiding his team to victory over Gonzaga in the N.C.A.A. basketball championship in Arizona. He led all scorers with 22 points.

Joakim Noah and Derrick Rose are both out for the season, and look like glaring Knicks gaffes. Meanwhile, Robin Lopez and Jerian Grant — both traded to Chicago for Rose — have been exactly what the Knicks have missed: A reliable big man and an athletic young reserve. And both were back in the Garden…

Didn’t see that one coming. For two months the Knicks have been in a free fall from self-proclaimed superteam to lottery nightmare. And Tuesday, there they were starting the likes of Maurice Ndour against streaking and desperate Chicago. Naturally they cruised to a 100-91 win before a crowd of 19,812 at the Garden. “It’s funny,…

Jeff Hornacek was noncommittal whether Derrick Rose will be re-signed after his torn meniscus is repaired, but the Knicks coach didn’t rule it out. In the cruelest of ironies, the Bulls were at the Garden on Tuesday and ex-Bulls Rose and Joakim Noah weren’t in the arena. Noah was suspended for failing a drug test…

Patrick Ewing once made the jump from Georgetown to the Knicks. Don’t be shocked if history repeats. For all the nostalgia Wednesday will bring, when Georgetown officially introduces Ewing as its new coach at a news conference on campus, there’s evidence to suggest the Knicks legend hasn’t given up on his goal of becoming an…

A couple national television appearances and $5,000 later, a boy’s grade-shaming father already has a third NBA trip in mind after he called out his son’s failing report card at two games in recent weeks. The dad — who requested he be referred to as Thomas’ father out of “love” for his 12-year-old son — said…

Carmelo Anthony’s back pain transferred to Kristaps Porzingis.

Making his first NBA start and playing in front of his mother for the first time, Maurice Ndour capitalized with a double-double.