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You have to love the Knicks. They’ve won seven consecutive games, possess the league’s sixth-stingiest defense (in terms of points allowed per possession) and have scored at an elite level with Jeremy Lin on the floor (in a limited sample size, of course). Landry Fields is finding his game (if not his three-point shot, at least consistently), Tyson Chandler is playing All-Star ball on both ends of the court and Carmelo Anthony is due back from a groin injury any day now. Things are generally humming.
So, of course, the Knicks on Friday were set to sign J.R. Smith, one of the league’s most mercurial players, to a one-year deal worth the prorated portion of their $2.5 million “room” cap exception. (Update: Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports reports that the...
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This probably won’t surprise you all that much, but the locals aren’t exactly going underground here in South Florida, petrified by tonight’s Game 5 between the Heat and the Knicks. Nobody is summoning the ghosts of the... more »
As New York Knicks owner James Dolan watched courtside, here’s how he had to always imagine LeBron James introducing himself to playoff basketball at Madison Square Garden: Game on the line, and the greatness rising in the... more »
Amar’e Stoudemire is recruiting you. He is working you. He is hustling you. Stoudemire is as aware as any athlete we’ve had around here, he enjoys the almost universal praise he’s received from the moment he signed his... more »
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