The Knicks head to Boston with the same record as the Celtics. If they win tonight, they’ll sit alone in 7th place, which would be swell. A battle of two almost .500 clubs. Two teams enter. One leaves with a non-losing record. To paraphrase Elvis (himself covering the Everly Brothers), let it be the Knicks. […]
From Brian Lewis: The Nets lost James Harden — again. But they dug down deep enough to win the game, and a season sweep of the cross-river rival Knicks. Already without Kevin Durant, the Nets saw Harden go down after just four minutes. But Kyrie Irving led a huge comeback, and Jeff Green capped off […]
The Knicks head to Brooklyn to take on their borough rivals, the Brooklyn Nets, with the Nets having already lost to the Chicago Bulls last night and playing without Blake Griffin (who sits the second night of back-to-backs), so this could be quite the opportunity for the Knicks to have a statement game, with their […]
From Greg Joyce: The Knicks struggled with blowing leads during the three-game losing streak they lugged into Detroit on Saturday night. This time, however, they were able to quickly build such an insurmountable advantage that coach Tom Thibodeau even let Julius Randle rest for the entire fourth quarter. Randle had come out on fire and […]
The Knicks head to Detroit to take on the Detroit Pistons, who are one of the worst teams in the NBA, so the Knicks really need to get this win, especially as the Pistons are bringing Killian Hayes back tonight after his big hip injury, so they’re likely more looking to see how he feels […]
The Knicks host the Dallas Mavericks and our old friend Kristaps Porzingis (and I guess our other old friend, Tim Hardaway Jr.) as the Knicks have the perfect opportunity to get the double whammy – 1. Win a game against a legit good team, which they haven’t done since they beat the Hawks in mid-February […]
There is obviously some debate over whether Thibs’ “treat every game like it’s Game 7” strategy is a good one, and one of the best critiques of it is why I predicted more wins than most posters (not all, of course. Who could out-optimize swifty, for instance?), which is that we have seen this exact […]
From Marc Berman: Tom Thibodeau wished he wasn’t so prescient when it came to the Timberwolves, his former club. “It’s really a loaded roster,’’ Thibodeau said before Wednesday night’s game about the league’s worst team. “No lead is safe against them.” And so it was. The Knicks blew an 18-point lead in the first half, […]
Come on, it is a shitty Timberwolves team and a chance to Thibs to get revenge on a team that he thinks screwed him over? Can you possibly imagine Thibs letting them lose this one? The Knicks will win if only to prevent Thibs from having a vein pop in his forehead. It’d be nice […]
From Marc Berman: Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said during the NBA Finals last October he’d like to build a gritty defensive culture like Pat Riley’s Miami Heat. Thibodeau has done an excellent job at trying to get there, but his Knicks still can’t beat the Heat. Their three-game winning streak snapped, the Knicks allowed Miami […]