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Nets Rout Knicks for 7th Win of Season

NEW YORK (NBA.com exclusive) — With about five minutes left in the Nets’ 113-93 victory Saturday over the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, a fan wearing a No. 6 LeBron James Knicks’ jersey stood up and made a boisterous announcement to the fans behind him.
“We want LeBron. Let’s go. We want LeBron,” he shouted.
After this [...]

Knicks’ Walker Has Practiced as 2nd Fiddle

NEW YORK — Bill Walker has always been somebody else’s running buddy or understudy.
In high school, he was Robin to O.J. Mayo’s Batman as the duo teamed up to win two state championships at North College Hill High School in Cincinnati.
During his tenure at Kansas State, he played alongside future NBA lottery pick Michael Beasley [...]

Knicks Pound Pistons Behind T-Mac at Point

NEW YORK (NBA.com exclusive) — Could Tracy McGrady be the answer for the Knicks at point guard?
Making his first start of the season there Wednesday night, McGrady had perhaps his most complete game since coming to New York at the trading deadline. McGrady put up 21 points, eight assists and seven rebounds as the Knicks [...]

Nate Takes a Page From D’Antoni’s Playbook

NEW YORK — Nate Robinson has taken a page from Mike D’Antoni’s playbook.
The former Knick got Celtics coach Doc Rivers to incorporate two of his old New York plays  into the Celtics’ playbook and the results paid off. Robinson scored 20 points in Tuesday’s 105-100 win at Detroit.
“I heard he played well and it’s good [...]

T-Mac Recruiting LeBron to New York

Count Tracy McGrady among those recruiting LeBron to New York.
“He’s a good friend,” McGrady told the New York Post before the Cavs shelled the Knicks in Cleveland. “He wanted to see me back on the basketball court and congratulate me on being back. I sent him an email that said: ‘I’m in the Big Apple. [...]

Z-Bo Punishes Knicks in Garden Return, Says Rudy Gay Will Return to Memphis

NEW YORK  — Zach Randolph says his Grizzlies teammate Rudy Gay wants to stay in Memphis after he becomes a restricted free agent this summer.
“He said he’s gonna come back here. This is where he started at,” Randolph said after dropping 31 points and 25 rebounds in a 120-109 victory over the Knicks, his former [...]

Randolph Thinks LeBron’s Coming to Knicks; Grizzlies’ Coach Defends Thabeet to D-League

NEW YORK — Count Zach Randolph among those who thinks LeBron James will join the Knicks as a free agent this summer.
“I don’t know, it’s a good chance he will. The city, playing in the Garden, it’s going to be interesting,” Randolph said Saturday night before his Memphis Grizzlies met the Knicks at MSG.
Randolph and [...]

David Lee, Backup Point Guard

Now we know who the Knicks’ backup point guard is.
It’s David Lee.
Lee, a 6-foot-9 All-Star center, ran the Knicks’ offense down the stretch of their 118-116 overtime victory Friday night over the Washington Wizards.
After Nick Young tied the game at 116 with a 3-pointer in the OT, Lee scored the game-winning bucket on a drive [...]

Contract Status as Important as Hoops Now

Tracy McGrady might as well drop No. 3 off the back of his freshly minted Knicks jersey and replace it with 22,483,124. As far as New York is concerned, those eight figures define T-Mac better than, well, T-Mac.
This is an age in which salary figures and cap hits and expiring contracts are more important than [...]

Bucks Too Much for Knicks on Legends Night

NEW YORK (NBA.com exclusive) — The Larry O’Brien championship trophy was displayed at halftime of the Bucks-Knicks game Monday night at Madison Square Garden, but that may be as close as New York fans get to NBA hardware anytime soon.
On a night when the Knicks honored their 1969-70 NBA championship club, the current team could [...]