New York Knicks

Former Exec VP Joe Lhota Has Deep Ties to Madison Square Garden's 30-Year Tax Break

In between his roles as Giuliani's "Rat Czar" and the MTA's chairman, mayoral candidate and Republican frontrunner Joe Lhota spent his days at 4 Pennsylvania Plaza. For five years, he was an executive vice president of Cablevision; then, in 2010, he was named the chief administrative officer at Madi ... More >>

The High Point of the Knicks' Season Came and Went Before the Final Whistle Blew on Sunday

"The Knicks were built to beat the Miami Heat," someone said on ESPN before the start of yesterday's New York-Miami match. Yes, well that was then, earlier in the season, and this is now, as the Knicks lick their wounds and try to recover from the psychological shock of blowing a 16-point second qua ... More >>

SLAM DUNK

The Knicks take on the 76ers

The New York Knicks/Brooklyn Nets Rivalry Is Already the Best in the NBA

This is already so fun, you guys. It only took the first quarter of a single season, but the matchup between the Knicks and the new-look Nets are already better than anyone could've expected, and probably better than any would've dared hope. Last night, the two teams matched up for the second t ... More >>

The Winners Of The 2012 Village Voice Web Awards

It's finally here! The 2012 Web Awards winners have been chosen. Check them out after the jump to see if your favorites took home the coveted foam hand trophy. And if they didn't make it? There's always next year (and feel free to complain in the comments section).

The Nets Vs. The Knicks: The Basketball War for New York Love

While I was on the F train to Prospect Park, I noticed a structure in the distance as the subway came above ground around Carroll Gardens. It was a futuristic building of epic proportions; a huge MSG-like structure in the middle of Atlantic Avenue. For a second, I wondered what the hell this buildin ... More >>

The Knicks Snap 11 Year Playoffs Losing Streak, But Lose Baron Davis--Will Lin Return?

Well, whatdoyaknow, the Knicks won game 4 on Sunday! The record-setting 13 game losing streak in the playoffs has been snapped! Sunday's showcase was, in every way, the series many fans and basketball analyst had wanted/predicted/hoped to see. We finally got to see that Carmelo Anthony/LeBron Jame ... More >>

Why Didn't The Knicks Tank The Final Regular Season Game To Avoid Miami?

The New York Knicks were in an interesting predicament late last week as the NBA regular season was heading toward the finish line: They had the chance to choose their playoff opponent. Heading into the final two games of the regular season with identical records with the Philadelphia 76ers, the K ... More >>

The Knicks Lose, Behind 2-0, And Lose Yet Another Player, This Time To Stupidity

Well, the Knicks lost again to Miami, losing 104-94 to fall behind 2-0 to Miami Heat in this best of seven series. The good news is that the Knicks, as a whole, played much better--at least the game was competitive compared to last Sunday's humiliation. Carmelo Anthony--you know, the guy some New ... More >>

Note to Mike Woodson -- Don't blow it

"This series is not over," said Amar'e Stoudemire after Saturday's 100-67 slaughter of the Knicks at the hands of the Miami Heat. "We've got to learn from our mistakes today and get ready for the next one." Coincidentally, this is exactly how General; Custer's last dispatch from the Little Big Horn ... More >>

Knicks' 11 Year Long Playoffs Win Drought Continues, But Lin Could Be Back Soon

Eleven years. Exactly. Today, April 29, 2012, marks the 11th anniversary of the last Knicks playoff victory. And judging by yesterday's smackdown at the hands of the Miami Heat, this drought may continue. Especially considering that Iman Shumpert, the team's best perimeter defender by a mile--he ... More >>

The Knicks Take Their Talents To South Beach This Saturday--And Other Playoff Storylines

The NBA playoff bracket is set, and the Knicks will take their talents to South Beach this Saturday to play LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and the Miami Heat. It's a matchup that will garner more buzz than a typical two-seed-vs-seven-seed series, due of a myriad of subplots. First, these two teams ha ... More >>

Will The Knicks Make The Playoffs???

It was a good Sunday for the Knicks. Carmelo Anthony had his best game of the season, scoring 43 points, including two long three pointers in the final seconds of the 4th quarter and overtime--the former forced overtime, and the latter won the game. That the Knicks did it over the team with the be ... More >>

John Calipari To The Knicks? Tebow's a Jet -- Anything's Possible

Some rumors are so dumb that you can't begin to understand how they even got started. Rumors like "The Jets are trying to sign Peyton Manning" or "The Jets are trying to sign Tim Tebow" or "The Knicks are trying to sign John Calipari." All absurd, of course, except that one of those three proved t ... More >>

Amid the Usual Media Circus That is New York, Jeremy Lin Shares Post-Surgery Photo

He may be pretty much done for the season, but Jeremy Lin is still the center of attention in the New York sports world. Yesterday, The Daily News' Frank Isola accused the Knicks of withholding news of Lin's surgery until after the playoff tickets purchase deadline, for regular season ticket holde ... More >>

Knicks Coach Mike D'Antoni Resigns--Good News For Melo, But What About Lin?

The latest development in what has got to be one of the most mercurial seasons in NBA history took place a couple of hours ago when coach Mike D'Antoni and the New York Knicks agreed to mutually part ways. Just how wild has the Knicks season been? They started the season with much fanfare, having ... More >>

Jeremy Lin and Knicks Sex Tips from Dr. Ruth Westheimer

​"When you get the credit for the wins," Casey Stengel famously said, "you gotta take the blame for the losses." True, but there was a lot more to the Knicks 102-88 loss to the Heat Thursday night than Jeremy Lin. The statistic which probably best defined the night was Lin's 8 turnovers. But ... More >>

Museum of Chinese in America to Hold Viewing Party on a Night the Knicks May Lose Badly

​As has been reported to death the last couple of weeks by media around the city--the emergence of Jeremy Lin has led to a surging interest in the Knicks, especially among the Chinese. Restaurants and bars in, or near, Chinatown have experienced a significant boost in business, and now, the M ... More >>

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. According to t ... More >>

NBA UNWRAPPED

New York Knicks host Boston Celtics

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 >>

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 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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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?

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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."

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 >>

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 >>

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LEBRON BRINGS IT HOME?

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

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 >>

HOOP DREAMS

Well, Knicks and Nets fans can always hope

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

NBA Union Square Event "Lame," Rainy

The Fun Stuff: Puntastic Headlines and Wacky Stories

The Prophet Isiah

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

Doubting Thomas

Even Isiah can't fix the Knicks

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Another Roll of the McDyess

The Blurry Vision Thing