The Knicks have been eliminated from the playoffs for about a month or so, but they’ll play in an elimination game on tonight. David Fizdale took the last seven games of the regular season and told his team to treat it like a playoff series. So “Game 7” is against the Detroit Pistons at The […]
The reports about Mario Hezonja leading into the NBA Draft described an athletic player who stood out in the European game as a scorer off the bench in the ACB league in Spain. He’d been playing pro in Croatia at the age of 14. The NBA seemed inevitable and yet when he got to Orlando […]
There is video that surfaced on social media of Mitchell Robinson the night before his 21st birthday. He was up late and out. He was downtown, in fact, and doing things you just don’t expect him to do. He was shooting threes. Where else would Mitchell Robinson be on the eve of his birthday (literally […]
The Knicks best defensive player is a 20-year-old rookie who is still learning the pro game. And when asked to assess the team’s issues on defense, especially in defending the three-point shot, he put it in the most elementary terms. “We be there,” Mitchell Robinson said, “we just don’t be close enough.” One of Mark […]
Doc Rivers just shared the secret to his team’s success this season and it’s a simple formula. The better the talent you have, the better the coach you are. Even after trading away their top player, Tobias Harris, and clearing salary cap space for free agency, the Clippers have stayed in the Western Conference playoff […]
Donovan Mitchell had a message for Knicks fans who may be ready to give up on Frank Ntilikina. “The kid is really good, people don’t see that,” the Jazz all-star guard said after Ntilikina missed his 25th straight game due to a groin injury. “He’s a great defender and one of the hardest guys I […]
Mitchell Robinson expects to one day be an eliminator on the court, a stopper who can change the game and, perhaps make a major impact on the playoffs. Right now, playing with a raw, reckless abandon, the prolific rookie shot-blocker has been a one-man wrecking crew on opposing shooters. But he may already have made […]
Maybe next year, a win like this, against a brand-name team like the Lakers, against a superstar like LeBron James, will have greater meaning. Both franchises, headed for a sixth straight season without a playoff berth, will be active this summer in making talent upgrades to enjoy long-awaited renaissances. And the NBA has flourished without […]