Knicks Morning News (2018.08.06)

Westgate Las Vegas set the Knicks’ over/under win total at 29.5 wins, which is the fifth-fewest total among all 30 NBA teams.

A series of travel delays opened players up to an increased risk of injury, and two of the union’s officers agreed that not playing was the right call.

After attacks on Stephen Curry and N.F.L. players, President Trump’s broadside on LeBron James followed an obvious pattern.

They’re great apart but even better together. Taurasi and Griner have spent years tailoring their games to each other, and another championship for the Phoenix Mercury may be the reward.

Not that there was collusion, but if so, it was “totally legal.”

President Trump went on a Twitter tirade Sunday, acknowledging for the first time that the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting in the crosshairs of the Robert Mueller investigation was to gather information on his political rival Hillary…

Smoke from the barbecue drifts into the trees as kids splash in the pool. A minivan wheels into the driveway bearing cousins from the distant exurbs.

On the porch, two elder uncles occupy matching rockers. They survey the annual family picnic and mutter about how rotten everyone is and how the…

The impact of a single-payer plan on New York depends on several uncertain factors, but one thing is certain: The plan would shift health-care spending through the state instead of private insurers.

This means substantial new taxes would replace premiums and out-of-pocket costs for New Yorkers….

Sergey Brin’s family left the Soviet Union in the late 1970s, when he was 6 years old. Brin’s company effectively left China in 2010, when he was in his late 30s.

The two were related. Living under a system that censored political speech, Google’s co-founder told the New York Times at the time,…

In a move designed to reduce the number of annual arrests and make better use of the time of cops on the beat, the NYPD announced last week that fare-jumpers with the lowest-level warrants will no longer be automatically arrested.

This makes sense.

Instead of getting taken to the station-house,…

ALBANY — Upset with the recent releases from prison of several cop killers like Herman Bell, state Senate Republicans are planning a public hearing into the state parole system.

The hearing will also look into Gov. Cuomo’s recent decision to grant widespread conditional pardons to more than 24,000…

The 20,000 people heading to Liberty and Ellis Islands on a nice summer day (an $18.50 ferry ride on Statue Cruises) make for a tempting target for hustlers hawking tickets for other harbor boats. While competition is fair, illegally selling tickets in Battery Park isn’t. These other boats don’t…

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo’s campaign, which has delighted in linking Democratic primary opponent Cynthia Nixon to her cosmo-drinking character Miranda Hobbes from “Sex And The City”, spent nearly $12,265 in February stocking the governor’s mansion with New York wine.

Cuomo, according to his July campaign…

The following is an expanded version of the second item from my “Albany Insider” column from Monday’s print editions:

ALBANY — Actress Cythnia Nixon has beaten Gov. Cuomo—for the much-desired first spot on the Sept. 13 Democratic primary ballot.

Nixon’s name will come before Cuomo’s based on a…

The following is an expanded version of the third item from my “Albany Insider” column from Monday’s print editions:

Fordham Law Prof. Zephyr Teachout has relied heavily on donations from outside the state in her bid for state attorney genera, records show.

According to numbers provided by her…

Lemonade appeals to New Yorkers

Manhattan: Last week, my daughter and some of her fellow New York City elementary school kids set up a lemonade stand in Columbus Circle to help raise money for The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights and New York Cares. Cecelia, 5, and I hatched the idea,…

Of course this is going to be how Matt Harvey is welcomed back.

The right-hander, who once was considered the darling of the franchise and a prince of this town, will not pitch in this three-game series, but obviously he will still be the focus of the media’s attention as the rebuilding Reds visit…

The Mets have placed reliever Anthony Swarzak on the 10-day disabled list with right shoulder inflammation, the team announced Sunday. The move is retroactive to Aug. 4.

“It’s pretty frustrating,” Swarzak admitted. “Any time you’re dealing with an issue in your throwing shoulder, you’ve got to…

That was not a nightmare.

Andrew Benintendi’s hopping ground ball up the middle and the Red Sox capping a four-run rally that started in the ninth with a 5-4 win in the bottom of the 10th were all too real.

That capped a worst-case scenario for the Yankees, who were swept by the Red Sox this weekend,…

A motorcycle passenger was killed and the bike’s operator was severely injured in a Queens crash Sunday night, police said.

The motorcyclist was riding along 162nd St. in Howard Beach about 9 p.m. when the bike collided with a car that was turning left from Cross Bay Blvd., police said.

The motorcycle…

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for August 6, 2018

We are bouncing off walls today as the jittery Gemini Moon skips through a wide range of aspects. It’s as if we can’t sit still because we’re bothered by little things we might normally let slide. We may vacillate between extreme negativity…

William (Bill) Howard, president of the West Indian American Day Carnival Association that presents the Brooklyn’s massive New York Caribbean Carnival Parade on Labor Day, died Sunday morning in his Brooklyn home. He was 75.

Howard was also a longtime community leader and a valued confidante and…

BERLIN — Determining why a vintage plane crashed in the Swiss Alps will be challenging since the 79-year-old aircraft did not have black boxes and was traveling in an area without frequent radar readings when it plunged into a mountain, killing all 20 of the people on board, investigators said…

A Brooklyn nail salon employee was busted after being caught on camera hammering a customer with a stick in a wild viral Facebook video, police said Sunday.

Huiyue Zheng, 32, was charged with assault and weapon possession. She was freed on personal recognizance after a hearing Saturday in Brooklyn…

With the New York Red Bulls and Los Angeles Football Club locked in a stalemate with 10 minutes remaining in regulation, Bradley Wright-Phillips took down a long ball from Marc Rzatkowski with his right foot and took a second touch into the box.

The ball was on the foot of one of Major League Soccer’s…

Charlotte Rae, the actress best known for roles on “Diff’rent Strokes” and “Facts of Life,” reportedly died Sunday.

She was 92.

The stage and TV actress was home in Los Angeles when she died, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Rae’s most iconic role was as housekeeper Edna Garrett, the wise and…

Jeff Fager, the executive producer on “60 Minutes,” has extended his vacation as CBS continues investigating allegations of a widespread culture of sexual misconduct at the network.

Fager was scheduled to return to work Monday, but will instead delay his return, CBS said in a statement Sunday.

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CARACAS, Venezuela — Authorities detained six people suspected of using explosives-laden drones in a failed bid to assassinate Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, officials said Sunday, in what one witness described as a terrifying attack that shook her apartment building.

The government alleged…

MONROE, N.C. — Deputies in North Carolina say they’re on the lookout for a teenager who robbed a 9-year-old’s lemonade stand at gunpoint.

The Union County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday the stickup happened alongside a traffic roundabout in Monroe, about 30 miles (48.3 kilometers) southeast of Charlotte.

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Steven Seagal has been tasked with strengthening the cultural ties between the United States and Russia.

The 66-year-old actor was named a “special representative” by Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday, responsible for promoting relations between the two countries “in the humanitarian…