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August 18 |
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| They came, they twirled, they stomped and strutted, and now they're on pins and needles. Nearly 200 youngsters tried out Sunday for a slot on the Knicks City Kids. |
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| BEIJING - Mike D'Antoni has noticed a reaction whenever the topic of the Knicks comes up around the U.S. men's basketball players. "They usually snicker," D'Antoni said yesterday. "I don't like that too much. That ticks me off." The perception... |
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August 05 |
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| Nine months after shareholders rejected the Dolan family's latest bid to take Cablevision Systems Corp. private, the cable operator said Tuesday it is considering several options to boost its stock price including spinning off some of its diverse holdings. |
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| An analyst commenting on the desire of Cablevision to sell off some of its holdings said today the Knicks likely are worth $500 million, well above the NBA average franchise value of $150 million. Andrew Zimbalist, a sports economist with Smith... |
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| Isiah Thomas has gone from being the face of the Knicks to virtual irrelevance and now his former boss is in a similar position. Steve Mills is out as president of Madison Square Garden Sports, replaced yesterday by Scott O'Neil. The move was... |
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| Isiah Thomas has gone from being the face of the Knicks to virtual irrelevance, and now his former boss is in a similar position. Steve Mills is out as president of Madison Square Garden Sports, replaced yesterday by Scott O'Neil. The move was... |
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| With one eye on the salary cap and another on the need to stockpile draft picks, the Knicks yesterday traded fan-favorite Renaldo Balkman to the Nuggets for a 2010 second-round draft choice, guard Taurean Green and swingman Bobby Jones. Neither... |
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| The Knicks' roster officially ballooned to 16 players yesterday with the announcement of Anthony Roberson's signing, one over the maximum, leaving a certain point guard with a tattoo on his temple in official limbo. Roberson, the undrafted former... |
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| Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni switched rooms at the luxurious Wynn Hotel on the Las Vegas strip Monday morning, moving from one wing to another, from one basketball universe to another. From guiding the Knicks' summer-league team to helping pilot... |
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| The Knicks ended the Las Vegas summer-league yesterday the way they came in - unsure if 19-year-old rookie Danilo Gallinari will contribute this season. After suffering a back injury in Monday's opener against Cleveland, the Italian Stallion... |
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| Former Suns sharpshooter Eddie House is a free agent, but coach Mike D'Antoni's crew decided to go after a younger version - Anthony Roberson. Knicks assistant/summer-league coach Phil Weber said Roberson could play the role House did in Phoenix... |
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| LAS VEGAS - The Italian Stallion already has broken down. Knick 6-foot-10 rookie Danilo Gallinari is expected to be shut down for the rest of the five-game Las Vegas summer league with a sore back after missing yesterday's 82-67 loss to the... |
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| LAS VEGAS - The Knicks have agreed in principle on a two-year contract to sign free-agent guard Anthony Roberson, with the deal likely to expediate the departure of Stephon Marbury, The Post has learned. Knicks president Donnie Walsh appeared to... |
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| LAS VEGAS - Knicks rookie Danilo Gallinari can stand to eat a few canolis. In the most illustrative play of Gallinari's mixed-bag debut, Cavaliers center Tractor Traylor backed in on Gallinari and sent the 6-foot-10 small forward flying to the... |
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| LAS VEGAS - As Italian forward Danilo Gallinari makes his Knicks debut today at UNLV in their summer-league opener vs. Cleveland, the status of David Lee becomes murkier. Lee, the team's most popular player and among the league's best rebounders... |
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| Melvin Booker, a former NBA point guard and teammate of Danilo Gallinari's on Milan last season, proclaimed the Italian Stallion will prove his critics wrong. The Knicks rookie was booed mightily on Draft Night. "The boos will only put a fire... |
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| On the day Donnie Walsh welcomed Chris Duhon to the Knicks at a Garden press gathering, the team president didn't say the magic words - that Stephon Marbury will be a member of the Knicks this season. While trying to defuse speculation Marbury... |
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| The Knicks expect to sign Bulls free-agent backup point guard Chris Duhon today after last night inking their first-round pick, Danilo Gallinari, to the standard rookie two-year, $5 million pact for sixth overall picks. Stephon Marbury? He still... |
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| Party on! The Knicks will officially sign Bulls free agent backup point guard Chris Duhon tomorrow and tonight they inked their first-round pick, the Italian Stallion, Danilo Gallinari, to the standard rookie two-year, $5 million pact for sixth... |
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| Despite reports of his impending doom, an unfazed Stephon Marbury said he will not change plans and is heading to Las Vegas Friday to work out with Knicks veterans at a voluntary minicamp coinciding with summer league. New hire Chris Duhon and... |
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| Chris Duhon celebrated his July 4th by verbally committing to the Knicks, agreeing to terms on a two-year, roughly $6.5 million contract, his agent Kevin Bradbury told The Post today. With Orlando unable to extend Duhon a formal offer until... |
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| The Chris Duhon Watch continued into the Fourth of July holiday weekend as the Bulls backcourt point guard apparently doesn't have a formal offer from Orlando yet and isn't thrilled with the Knicks' modest two-year package. He may want to just... |
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| Chris Duhon is expected to make his decision today - and it's down to the Knicks and Orlando. With a two-year, roughly $6 million offer from the Knicks in hand, the Bulls backup point guard and his agent Kevin Bradbury met with Magic brass in... |
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| Bulls backup point guard Chris Duhon, during a visit to the Knicks' Westchester campus on Day 1 of free agency yesterday, met with coach Mike D'Antoni and was offered a two-year contract believed to be more than $7 million, according to league... |
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| Wearing a red Team USA polo shirt at an Olympic function at The Plaza yesterday, Mike D'Antoni put on his Knicks hat in declaring the team's biggest need is backcourt help, with free agency dawning today. D'Antoni, a U.S. Olympic assistant coach... |
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| During his tour of Manhattan, LeBron James had fun teasing Knicks and Nets fans yesterday about the prospect of playing in the Big Apple in 2010 when he becomes a free agent. When asked his favorite city, King James listed New York No. 1. But... |
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| Donnie Walsh is just getting started. With 6-foot-10 forward Danilo Gallinari in the bag as one building block, Tuesday begins free agency, and the Knicks president will have multiple point guards to chase with his $5.1 million mid-level exception... |
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| WHEN you're the Knicks and picking sixth in a top-heavy freshman draft, and your isolated asset (David Lee) and the slot weren't ample inducement (assuming another obscene contract was out of the question) to move up to harvest Derrick Rose, O. J... |
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| When Mike D'Antoni walked into the interview room last night at the Knicks' Westchester practice facility, the coach blurted, "Are we doing this in Italian or English?" So begins the Knicks' Italian Stallion Era, and possibly the end of David Lee... |
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| THIS is where trust comes in, where it is necessary to look at the length and the breadth of Donnie Walsh's career and understand it is a resume that insists he knows what he's doing on days like this one. You need to believe that's true. Because... |
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| The Italian Stallion is now a Knick and he's already hearing New York jeers. Knicks president Donnie Walsh chose 6-10 Italian forward Danilo Gallinari over Indiana shooting guard Eric Gordon with the sixth pick in tonight's NBA Draft, drawing... |
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| The Knicks have polled NBA personnel the past few days, trying to figure out the chances of USC combo guard O.J. Mayo falling to them at six. With the chances slim, Knick president Donnie Walsh is exploring ways of swapping picks with Memphis at... |
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| Mike D'Antoni has stated he wants an "engine" to propel his run-and-gun offensive attack, but for seven years the Knicks have also needed a guard who can defend the perimeter. Defending the perimeter has been one of the Knicks' biggest weaknesses... |
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| Stephon Marbury is happy to look ahead to a Mike D'Antoni future, not an Isiah Thomas past. Marbury said he feels he has a new lease on his Knicks career, even if president Donnie Walsh and coach D'Antoni may look for a point-guard-of-the-future... |
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| Herb Williams will remain as a Knicks assistant coach, joining Phil Weber and Dan D'Antoni on head coach Mike D'Antoni's staff, the team announced today. "We have three top quality assistant coaches that will be great assets as we work towards... |
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| Hofstra guard Antoine Agudio was in heaven just having a limo take him from his Huntington home to the Knicks' practice facility yesterday morning. Although the likelihood of Agudio being drafted is slim, Hofstra's all-time leading scorer worked... |
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| With the NBA Draft one week away, there's still a debate whether the Knicks will use the sixth pick or trade down. Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni, who had ultimate power when he coached Phoenix, actually traded his first-round pick with the Suns in... |
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| Charlie Ward's tenure with the Knicks lasted almost a decade, and in 1999, the point guard led Jeff Van Gundy's underdogs to the NBA Finals, where they lost in five games to the Spurs. Despite the disappointment in the Finals, it was a good career... |
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| Knicks favorite Charles Oakley, a veteran of the celebrated New York-Chicago series of the '90s, said he believes NBA officials and league executives exert too much control over the outcome of games. Oakley also said he feels the biggest surprise in... |
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| LOS ANGELES Legend Bill Walton, who broadcast the suspicious Game 6 of Lakers-Kings in 2002, sliced up Tim Donaghy yesterday. "I'm saddened and disheartened by Donaghy comments, but not surprised by them," said Walton, making an ESPN comeback... |
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| With the sixth pick in the NBA Draft, the Knicks select, well . . . if yesterday is any indication, who knows? The Knicks worked out six prospects yesterday, two point guards - UCLA's Russell Westbrook and Georgia's Sundiata Gaines of Queens... |
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| UCLA sophomore point guard Russell Westbrook will be the flavor of the day at their Westchester campus when the Knicks conduct their first pre-draft workouts in preparation for the June 26 NBA draft. Teams weren't allowed to work out players... |
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| Mark Jackson said he's over the sting of losing out on the Knicks' head-coaching job to Mike D'Antoni. Ready to broadcast the Lakers-Celtics mega-matchup, Jackson said, "I'm over a lot of things in life. I'm excited about being able to call the... |
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| ORLANDO, Fla. -- There's a 6-foot-10, small-forward, teenaged prodigy born in Europe on the Knicks' radar. And it's not the Italian Stallion, Danilo Gallinari. During media availability yesterday for lottery hopefuls, LSU freshman Anthony Randolph... |
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| ORLANDO, Fla. - Donnie Walsh finally arrived at the pre-draft camp here yesterday and officially began the task of gauging the trade value of the Knicks' sixth pick in the June 26 draft. The more the Knicks president talked, the more he sounded... |
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