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Created by dipity on Jun 25, 2009
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...last shot and Knicks fall. 9. April 22, 2011 Celtics 113, Knicks 96 With Stoudemire hobbled and Anthony shooting just 4 of 16, Knicks get blown out at Garden. 10. April 24, 2011 Celtics 101, Knicks 89 Knicks never have a chance as Boston takes 55-38 lead at...
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...Knicks going with seven threes in the first half, and finished with 25 points. Novak shot 8-for-10 from downtown, helping the Knicks' bench outscore Boston's 55-2. "He's the best three-point shooter in our league by far," Smith said. "People are starting to...
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...games under Mike Woodson. The Knicks are now in sole possession of 7th place in the East as Philly lost again tonight. The Knicks faint division hopes are still alive as they move with 3.5 games of the Celtics in the Atlantic division. Next up is a trip to...
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...still being written. These are my top five Knicks storylines for the first-half of the season. After some early struggles, the Knicks are finally moving in the right direction. It should be an exciting second-half for the Knicks. Edwin Torres was born in New...
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New York City Sports Report
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...NYKnicks.com was the top visited site in the NBA for page views and video streams. Live online chats during Knicks games on KnicksNow.com, which feature MSG Network talent moderating a fan chat online, have also drawn more than 70,000 fans globally in recent...
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Crain's New York
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...said yesterday it will be difficult not to get Harrellson his minutes back because of his defensive grit. Next week, the Knicks play just once in six days. It gives D’Antoni — finally — ample practice time to fit the new pieces together. In fact, after Cleveland,...
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New York City Sports Report
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...game. His play earned him an Eastern Conference Player of the Week Award for the second week of February. Once a weakness, the Knicks defense has become the teams biggest strength. The Knicks have the fifth best defensive rating (points against per 100 possessions)...
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NBA.com
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...g0t their first blowout since last Wednesday, when they defeated the Kings, 100-85. DIFFERENCE-MAKER: Amare Stoudemire and the Knicks' team defense. This season, the Knicks have made a habit of allowing average power forwards, such as Boris Diaw, Ryan Anderson...
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...event! Satellite Direct allows you to watch Nets vs Knicks online live using any internet capable device - watch the Nets vs Knicks event online using any PC or Mac computer, iPhone, iPad, Smart Phone, or Tablet! In addition to being able to watch Nets vs...
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...on the bench, and cut it to 73-71 when Jared Jeffries hit a free throw after Lin returned during a timeout with 5:29 left. The Knicks got it down to two again on Lin's free throws with 1:06 to play, but Gustavo Ayon answered with a bucket, Lin missed wildly...
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...other than Novak to make a shot in the fourth. His three gave the Knicks a 90-81 edge with 6:51 to go. The Mavericks cut the Knicks' lead to 95-93 after a Lin turnover led to a Jason Terry three with 3:26 remaining. Lin atoned on the next trip as he knocked...
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Newsday
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...mend. He could return by the end of the week. There are questions as to whether or not Anthony can gel with the already flowing Knicks offense. Anthony insists that he can. Things are not going so well for the Raptors. They have lost four of the last five...
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New York City Sports Report
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...assists. Washington was leading 64-63 before Lin drew a shooting foul and scored to give the Knicks the lead for good. On the Knicks’ next possession, Fields turned Lin’s errant shot into a dunk. It was all part of a 9-2 run culminating in Lin’s first NBA...
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...best guard on the floor, so the Bulls won, 105-102, endangering coach Mike D’Antoni’s job. All that and a nice guy, too. The Knicks (8-14) got to see what life is like when you have an incredible point guard on your side. It looks as if Anthony will not be...
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New York City Sports Report
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...actually was in his half-season with the Knicks. However, when the Knicks decided that they wanted Tyson Chandler to join the Knicks, they waived Billups. The Knicks decided to rely on Toney Douglas, who it has turned out was not ready to walk into Billups'...
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Bleacher Report
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...opening half, were daring Miami to stop them. The Heat’s inability to stop the Knicks was maddening. There was no secret to the Knicks strategy; spread the floor and launch jumpers. And yet most of the shots were open jumpers and the Knicks were making them....
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New York Daily News
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...January 27, 2012, 6:35 PM ET W2W4: Knicks-Heat The Knicks and Heat will face off Friday night at 8 ET on ESPN. W2W4: Knicks-Heat VIDEO PLAYLIST W2W4: Knicks-Heat W2W4: Knicks-Heat The Knicks and Heat will face off Friday night at 8 ET on ESPN. Barkley Has...
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ESPN
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...were high for the New York Knicks this season, with a full season of Carmelo Anthony , Amar’e Stoudemire and Tyson Chandler playing together. But a little more than a month into the season, the Knicks sit at 7-11 and are 10th in the Eastern Conference, already...
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ESPN
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...had time to adjust to their new players. The Nuggets are flying high, whereas the Knicks are seemingly at square one. If the Knicks lose badly to the Nuggets, it will reaffirm the belief that the Nuggets got the better end of the deal. Those who warned about...
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...gone 0-4 on their homestand vs the likes of the Orlando Magic, Phoenix Suns, Milwaukee Bucks, and Denver Nuggets. Former Knicks Al Harrington, Timofey Mozgov, and Danilo Gallinari scored a combined 77 points and grabbed a combined 29 boards as the Knicks were...
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...17 meetings. Notes: The Knicks fell to 18-8 on Martin Luther King Day. ... Though unclear exactly what the process would be, Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni said Baron Davis could take part in full practices soon, perhaps next week. The point guard hasn't played...
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San Antonio Express
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...is still strange to see a Mike D'Antoni offense struggle so much, particularly in the fourth quarter, which ended with the Knicks not making a field goal for the last nine minutes. (They also had eleven turnovers in the quarter.) The Sixers, on the last day...
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New York Magazine
http://nymag.com/daily/sports/2012/01/knicks-defense-wha-prevails-again.html
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WARRIORS 92, NY KNICKS 78
OAKLAND — As much as Mark Jackson tried to downplay his first game against the Knicks as an NBA head coach, he didn’t sound very convincing when he said he was treating it as just another game.
As a New Yorker and former Knick
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...he averaged 25.3 on the season but scored just 20.8 points per game in April. 3. Knicks add Tyson Chandler Many assumed the Knicks would save their cap space for the summer of 2012 when Chris Paul , Deron Williams and Dwight Howard can test free agency. But...
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...said Hayes’ agent rebuffed a one-year deal at the full $5 million mid-level the Knicks have to offer. “A lot of guys the Knicks want are two-year-deal guys,’’ one source said. “It will be tough.’’ The Knicks are offering only one-year deals to protect 2012...
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...two seasons since his draft. There’s definitely a need for 7-footers. We’re hoping it’s the Knicks’ roster.’’ Come Dec. 9, the Knicks will be after a veteran free-agent defensive center to slot alongside Amar’e Stoudemire — the major addition they will make...
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...to try to snare a veteran and trade back in the draft, a source said. Shumpert, meanwhile, has gotten great support in the Knicks' board room in recent days, rising up the point-guard chart due to his workout two weeks. The 6-foot-5 Shumpert is now considered...
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...size, rebounds well in his area, can guard the 4 and 5 and he's only 20. His best days are ahead of him." Vucevic's Knicks workout yesterday was solid, but the Knicks also were impressed with Michigan point guard Darius Morris, who has risen on their draft...
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...7-foot center Jerome Jordan thought he was ready for the NBA this past season, but former president Donnie Walsh didn't sign him, wanting him to develop in Serbia. So imagine how their 2010 second-round acquisition feels about next season, about being the...
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...Felton, Wilson Chandler, Danilo Gallinari, Timofey Mozgov, and a 2014 first-round draft pick to the Nuggets. In exchange, the Knicks acquired Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups, Shelden Williams, Anthony Carter, and Ronaldo Balkman. Under Walsh’s guidance,...
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...the Garden in the last moments of the Knicks' final game of the season on Sunday evening. There was no booing, even though the Knicks failed to win a game in their first playoff series in seven seasons. In fact, with about a minute to go, a small ovation broke...
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Wall Street Journal
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...stealing the ball from Jared Jeffries as if Garnett had forgotten what year it is. These are Carmelo's Knicks now. Not Amar'e's Knicks. Not Isiah's. The fans who kept coming through all the losing years will come early Friday night. And when the Knicks take...
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New York Daily News
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...bottom of the standings in Sandy Alderson's (below) first season trying to rescue the stumbling franchise. You see with the Knicks, the way they matter again at this time of year, how much they have been missed, and how much we had lost over the past 10...
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...TBD x-Friday, April 29: Boston at Knicks, TBD x-Sunday, May 1: Knicks at Boston, TBD x - if necessary For that task, the Knicks listed Billups as "questionable" after his MRI revealed a strained tendon in his left knee, which he injured on a late-game drive...
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Times Herald-Record
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...not! The Knicks are gonna win this game, Chauncey or no Chauncey! OH GOD WHY IS RAY ALLEN OPEN?! Three from the wing. Splash. Knicks lose. Game two. Amare Stoudemire, MVP-level game-one scoring savant, goes down with back spasms. It's done. But hold on! Carmelo...
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Huffington Post
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...all while surrounded by a paper-thin supporting cast. Through three quarters, no other Knick had scored in double figures.The Knicks were undone by a Boston team with a talented roster: three of the Celtics' best players, Rajon Rondo, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce...
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Wall Street Journal
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...with the game on the line, Anthony opted to pass to Jared Jeffries , who turned the ball over with 4.1 seconds left and the Knicks trailing by one. The Knicks then looked lost on Boston 's inbounds play to a wide-open Delonte West , who managed to kill all...
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Newsday
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...with the defending Eastern Conference champions: Legitimate question: Would any of those four men start for last year's Knicks? (You know, the one that won 29 games.) The Knicks' roster, with Amar'e Stoudemire and Chauncey Billups hurt, was so depleted that...
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...in front of them. Ideally, Knicks defenders won’t have to rotate as much, leaving them in better rebounding position. The Knicks can’t be outrebounded by double digits the way they were in Game 1. They played excellent initial defense but have to finish off...
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CBS New York
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...finished with 24 points and Garnett added 15 points and 13 rebounds. Paul Pierce added 18 for Boston, which has beaten the Knicks five straight times this season. Anthony was 1-for-11 in the second half and finished with 15 points on 5-for-18 shooting. Stoudemire...
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When the Knicks and the Celtics square off tonight in the first game of the first round of the NBA Playoffs, it will conjure memories of past postseason series between the two teams that began in the 1950s, continued in the 1960s and became a national tr
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...anything is the one before that, the March game that saw the Celtics rally back from a second-half deficit and close out the Knicks late. It stands as the first reason why it is hard to imagine a Knicks upset. EXPERIENCE - That fourth quarter was a thing of...
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To some, the Celtics are “experienced.” To others, they’re “old,” with each member of the original Big Three — Ray Allen (35), Kevin Garnett (34), Paul Pierce (33) — showing wear on the treads.
But age really isn’t the Celtics’ central concern as their
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The New York Knicks are the underdogs in their first round playoff matchup with the Bos
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...the speedy Rose. In the second half, the Knicks had no energy. This is what last night’s game was really about: saluting a Knicks team that was rebuilt in February and somehow pulled together to find a workable chemistry. It was also about giving credit to...
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Carmelo Anthony #7 of the Knicks drives to the basket against Paul Pierce #34 of the Boston Celtics. (credit: Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)
The Knicks and Celtics haven’t seen each other in the playoffs since 1990, when the Knicks won three
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CBS New York
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/04/12/schmeelk-knicks-all-aboard-for-boston/
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...just once since the Anthony trade, and Boston coach Doc Rivers called the March 21 game at the Garden "a bloodbath." The Knicks outplayed Boston through 3 ½ quarters before the Celtics stole a 96-86 win. Anthony needed five stitches to close a gash above his...
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New York Post
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Carmelo Anthony won't declare he wants to face the Miami Dream Team next Sunday in South Beach as the Knicks' first-round opponent, as opposed to Boston, but he didn't sound worried about LeBron James & Co.
With the potential dream firs
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...backup point guard Anthony Carter has become a lot more than a Denver throw-in. With auditions ongoing for the playoffs, Carter has earned a spot in the rotation with his gritty, breakneck play that continued last night in the Knicks' 116-93 blowout of the...
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Amar'e Stoudemire and the Knicks aren't scaring any potential first-round playoff opponents by surrendering 118 points to a Toronto Raptors club that already seems to have mailed it in.
Now that the Knicks are in the playoffs, how far will they go?
Six
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