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Teens Spit for Prizes Tonight at Knicks Poetry Slam

It is a shock and a pleasure to see the Times use the phrase "spit poems from the depths of their tortured teenage souls" in a lede, though they find it necessary to explain later that the verb is "the teenagers' favorite term for performing their work." The reporter, Liz Robbins, refers to youths ... More >>

IT'S KOBE! LEBRON! . . .

. . . And, sigh, the Knicks

Second String Saviors?

The Knicks Place Their Fate in the Hands of Their Bench Players

Too Short. Too Old. Too Bad.

Eight Reasons Why They’ve Become the Snickerbockers

Letters

Eight Reasons Why They’ve Become the Snickerbockers

The Knicks Take Pains To Maintain an Even Strain

Eight Reasons Why They’ve Become the Snickerbockers

Center of Attention

Ewing Changes His Role, Defying Critics and Defenders Alike, and the Knicks Win

Point/Counterpoint

In the City of Point Guards, Can the Knick Playmakers Deliver?

The Knicks' Storybook (Post)Season

The Plots Thicken for the Orange and the Blue

The Fundamental Truth

Knicks Can't Run Away From Basketball's Basic Tenets

The Big-Guard Backcourt

Pairing Up Sprewell and Houston Is Just What the Knicks Need

Full-Court Press

Knicks Clamp Down on the Working Media

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Knicks Clamp Down on the Working Media

Hard Road to Glory

The Minefields That Lurk Between the Knicks and a Conference Title

The Same Old Song

Knicks Heat: A Ragged Rivalry Made of Worn-Out Story Lines

Heat Burn Knicks

New York Beats Miami, but Emerges Singed for Indy

Defenseless

The Knicks Front Line Looks Like a Doughnut: There’s a Big Hole in the Middle

Sports

The Knicks Front Line Looks Like a Doughnut: There’s a Big Hole in the Middle

How to Fix the Knicks

The Knicks Front Line Looks Like a Doughnut: There’s a Big Hole in the Middle

Karmic Relief

Remember When the Knicks Were Good? Even Fairly Good?

Another Roll of the McDyess

The Blurry Vision Thing

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The Blurry Vision Thing

Doubting Thomas

Even Isiah can't fix the Knicks

The Prophet Isiah

Thomas's inane talk about a Knicks championship might actually portend something positive

HOOP DREAMS

Well, Knicks and Nets fans can always hope

Jockbeat: Why This Year with the Knicks Will Be Worse Than the Isiah Era

​ In a way, for Knicks fans this is worse than the Isiah era. You know, in the way watching a train wreck is a lot more interesting than watching paint dry. At least in the bad old days, there was drama, larger-than life personalities and some good basketball players, albeit gone horribly w ... More >>

LEBRON BRINGS IT HOME?

Not if the 'Dynamic Duo' have anything to say about it

Find cheap seats to the Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers

Not if the 'Dynamic Duo' have anything to say about it

Reggie Miller Back to Torment Knicks Fans

​To the entertainment and delight of Knicks fans everywhere, Reggie Miller is back. Filmmaker Dan Klores, director of acclaimed documentaries as Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story, Crazy Love, and Black Magic -- the history of the rise of basketball in historically black colleges and uni ... More >>

Why LeBron James (Probably) Won't Be Coming to New York

​Terry Pluto, sports columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, has been covering LeBron James since his first high school game. His latest book, LeBron James: The Making of an MVP (cowritten with PD Cavs beat writer Brian Winters) is the definitive work to date on how James became the best pla ... More >>

The James L. Dolan Honorary Scholarship for Media Reporting: A Kickstarter Project

​Prolific blogger, re-blogger, and columnist Anthony "SoupSoup" DeRosa is trying to harness the awesome power of KickStarter - a website that helps facilitate people who are looking to source out funding for their own projects - for the power of "good."

Video: Mayor Bloomberg's Embarrassing "Come On, Lebron" Campaign Has Begun

Click to enlarge and see the ridiculousness in a bigger size. ​New Yorkers should want for nothing, and when we do, we kvetch about it, and then go get it, because that's what New Yorkers do. We shouldn't look desperate, preening, pathetic, or in-need. It just doesn't seem to fit the spirit of ... More >>

Nets Billboard Really Is Unnerving Knicks Brass, Reportedly

​We woke up this morning and saw the first item on eTrueSports' "Sports Shorts" and thought it was real before we realized we were being spoofed again by sports prankster supreme Frank Coffey: "This is like a belt in the Borscht," said Knicks colorful owner James Dolan in his first comments ... More >>

When the Knicks Were the Best Team in Town

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 10, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 26 Only the Knicks Can Make Us Respectable Now by Joe Flaherty and Ross Wetzsteon After years of false pregnancies, the New York sporting crowd may at last father a legitimate champion. For a long time now ... More >>

Seven at Seven: Would-Be Governors Debate Tonight

​New Yorkers get their first look at The Magnificent Seven gubernatorial candidates tonight, and if you can't find someone to embrace on this stage then you're a choosy beggar who doesn't even deserve true democracy and you might as well head straight for Tehran. The assortment includes a bos ... More >>

What's Poisoning the Air at Madison Square Garden?

​When's a good time to clean your building of asbestos? More like when isn't it a good time to clean out your building of asbestos? Unless the basketball season just started and you're the New York Knicks, in which case, what could possibly go wrong?

The 114 Most Important Lessons I've Learned at The Village Voice (Or: "2010, The Year I Ruined Your Media Outlet")

​After a 285-day stint, I am abdicating my post here at The Village Voice. I'm going to work for Esquire.com, so I may -- as one commenter noted -- continue my work as a "a twentysomething angel of death." Yet, while I was here, I learned some very important things, and had some very memorable mom ... More >>

Carmelo Anthony to the Knicks: Was the Price Too Steep?

​So now that Melomania has reached its peak, it might be time to reflect on whether or not the Knicks made a good deal. Last Friday ESPN's Stephen A. Smith probably expressed the sentiments of most Knicks fans when he wrote "When you have a chance to get one of the top five players in the ga ... More >>

Knicks Show Off A Passing Game!

​Here's a statistic that jumped out of the Knicks box score in last night's blowout win against the Utah Jazz, which may bode well for the long-beleaguered team: 32. As in 32 assists. That's right, the team with Amare' Stoudemire (12 for 15, 31 points) and Carmelo Anthony (pictured at right), ... More >>

Knicks Somehow Manage Four Foul Shots ... And Still Win

Another tidbit from our periodic examination of the Knicks' latest box score: Against Memphis on Wednesday night, Carmelo and Amare and the rest of the fellows somehow scored 110 points in a last-second victory, while managing to attempt just 4 foul shots. (Luckily, they made all four.) Just 4 fo ... More >>

FACE OFF

New York Knicks host Boston Celtics

1 in 8 New Yorkers is on Oxy

​If you were wondering why 13% of the commuters on your subway car this morning were drooling and looking into space, the Wall Street Journal may have a clue: prescriptions for oxycodone, the generic name of the powerful pain pill OxyContin, have doubled in New York City between 2007 and 2010. ... More >>

Knicks Castoffs Shaking Up NBA Playoffs

​What do Zach Randolph, Trevor Ariza, Danilo Gallinari, Wilson Chandler, Raymond Felton, Al Harrington, Antonio McDyess, Marcus Camby, Nate Robinson, Eddie House, and Jamal Crawford have in common? Well, they all were let go by the Knicks at one point or another in recent years, and, unlike t ... More >>

NBA UNWRAPPED

New York Knicks host Boston Celtics

Who Does Michael Bloomberg Love On Twitter? We Find Out With Twit Amore

​Because love is at least nominally in the air (Valentine's Day is Tuesday), the Internet has brought you a new tool to discover your digital crushes. Twit Amore is an app that allows you find out who you or someone you like to stalk loves on Twitter by simply entering a user's handle. Accordi ... More >>