NEW YORK KNICKS (14-10) The Knicks have been four games over .500 twice since 2001-02 at this point of the season, so there is growing excitement around the team. They’ve won nine of 12 and 11 of 15 including four straight on the road. This morning before shootaround, the Knicks were downplaying where they are […]
The third quarter last season for the Knicks was, as Bill Pidto would put it, a toxic situation. So many games were lost in that quarter alone, it became a regular topic on the Ford Knicks Post Game Show. The Knicks were the sixth-lowest scoring third-quarter team last season, at 22.7 points per third quarter. […]
Mike Krzyzewski’s pregame speech didn’t need to echo the heart-pumping intensity of Herb Brooks from 1980’s Miracle on Ice. The shower of motivation didn’t have to come from words, but from the completion of a mission that he and the core group of USA Basketball, which included architect Jerry Colangelo, the world’s most complete player […]
It has always been the same voice in the locker room this season, the one that gets everyone to listen because what’s being said isn’t clichés or empty rhetoric. It is a stern voice of intensity, one that speaks from experience with the hardware to back it up. One that also practices what it preaches. And so […]
Glen Grunwald had a tough act to follow after Donnie Walsh. The latter was a widely-respected, vastly-experienced and media-savvy executive who rejuvenated a troubled franchise just by his mere presence. Grunwald had experience, but he was not Donnie Walsh. But that didn’t make him underqualified. All he was — and continues to be — is understated. […]