Joel Embiid slated to make season debut against Knicks
ATLANTA — Joel Embiid's suspension for shoving a reporter means he is scheduled to make his debut against the last team to lose. The MSG Villains played the first of a three-game penalty on Wednesday against the Clippers in Inglewood, Calif., and the Sixers have the rest of the season against the Lakers and Hornets […]
Matt Ryan’s career went from graveyard job to living Knicks dream
ATLANTA — Matt Ryan's first day at Yonkers Cemetery determined his eagerness to leave the gig as soon as possible. It was snowing and freezing in February and his small car skidded. Ryan crashed into a tombstone. “I'm like, 'It's not going to be like this every day, right?'” Ryan said Wednesday before his first […]
The Knicks are better than their so-so start and they’ll figure it out
The problem is: I want to feel like I did last May when the Knicks were on TV three or four nights a week. I miss the days when I would be ready for games by lunchtime and impatiently count down the minutes until tipoff, trying to tell Joel Embiid or Tyrese Haliburton how I […]
Knicks know something has to change on defense after Celtics beatdown
The Knicks will need to start on defense as they look to quickly recover from Tuesday's loss in Boston to open the season. The Celtics put up a banner commemorating the 2024 NBA title and defeated the revamped Knicks, who look to challenge for the Eastern Conference championship this season. “That's championship-level basketball. For us, […]
Knicks hopping on Yankees’ World Series bandwagon
Karl-Anthony Towns wore an interlocking NY cap during a postgame interview in Boston on Tuesday night, but he was joined by several Knicks who showed support for the Yankees as they prepare for their first World Series trip since 2009. There was only one person. Towns, a New Jersey native who played internationally for the […]
The Celtics apocalypse is underway, and the Knicks showed no one else has a chance
The apocalypse has arrived in the Eastern Conference. Currently, the dominant boston celtics They began a forcible repression against competitors and pretenders alike. of new york knicksperhaps the only team in the East with the talent to do something about this, was embarrassed by Boston on opening night. Is there any hope? The Knicks, who […]
New-look Knicks torched by Celtics in season-opening nightmare
BOSTON — The new Knicks were just guests at the Boston triumvirate. New York, touted as the biggest threat to the Celtics in the East, was like a wet paper bag as the Celtics cruised to a ring-night victory, 132-109, and nearly broke the all-time record from beyond the arc. showed great resistance. It was […]
Knicks eyeing former Pelican Matt Ryan to fill roster spot
BOSTON — The Knicks are interested in a local product to fill a roster spot. Matt Ryan, a 27-year-old free agent forward with a high 3-point percentage, is being strongly considered by New York State, officials confirmed. Ryan, recently released by the Pelicans, spent his high school years at Iona Prep in New Rochelle, about […]
Karl-Anthony Towns’ Knicks debut didn’t have huge impact
BOSTON — Karl-Anthony Towns didn't make much of an impact in his debut with the Knicks. The four-time All-Star center had a quiet 12 points and seven rebounds in the Knicks' season-opening loss to the Celtics on Tuesday night. Towns, who was acquired in a blockbuster trade to acquire midfield personnel in the absence of […]
Knicks painful first impression isn’t free of worry even if it’s early
Well, that was something. What it was, it was a massacre. Spanking. Gobble. It was threshing and threshing. It was beating and beating, bloodshed and beating. Indeed, it would have been eye-opening and gut-wrenching if there was loyalty to the team wearing the white uniforms rather than the team wearing the green uniforms. It was […]