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Less than 24 hours after the firing of head coach Jeff Hornacek, New York Knicks president Steve Mills vowed the franchise won’t attempt any quick fixes in its pursuit of a new head coach, as the front office has done in the past. Mills noted owner James Dolan has given him ample room to be […]

New York Knicks center Enes Kanter is likely to opt out of his current $18.6 million player-option in hopes of a long-term deal, according to ESPN’s Ian Begley. The Turkish international expressed his desire to remain in The Big Apple, but will command more compensation for his services after having a career-year with the Knicks. […]

The New York Knicks have expressed interest in contacting Villanova Wildcats head coach Jay Wright to inquire about their head coaching vacancy, according to Frank Isola of The New York Daily News. The organization has reportedly reached out to the 56-year-old coach, who is fresh off winning a second championship in three seasons with the […]

The New York Knicks made perhaps their most important move of the offseason, wasting no time and sacking Jeff Hornacek from his head coaching job, setting up a clean slate for a new regime in The Big Apple. The front office also fired assistant coach Kurt Rambis, who had worn players thin during the last […]

Aside from their hot start, the 2017-18 NBA season for the New York Knicks was ultimately one to forget. To no surprise, it has now been capped by the firing of head coach Jeff Hornacek. It had been reported that the Knicks had already gathered a wish list of their next head coaching candidates which included […]

Jeff Hornacek and the New York Knicks have played their last game of the season. As it turns out, it was also the last game that Hornacek is going to coach for the Knicks after the team decided to part ways with the bench tactician, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Knicks dismissed coach Jeff Hornacek, league sources […]

In the aftermath of an underperforming season, the New York Knicks will have some decisions to make over the summer, including their choice of head coach after a new regime of president Steve Mills and general manager Scott Perry inherited Jeff Hornacek at the helm of the team. The former player-turned-coach expressed his desire to […]

After posting a career-high 17 points with six rebounds, five assists, one block and one steal in Monday night’s 123-109 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Knicks point guard Frank Ntilikina responded to the praise that he recently received from LeBron James. James, who recorded 26 points and 11 assists in Monday’s game, tells ESPN […]

For the New York Knicks, their long and injury-riddled 2017-18 season is finally about to come to an end. They will get to turn the page and officially get to look ahead to their 2018-19 campaign with just two regular-season games remaining. As for Monday night’s home finale against the Cleveland Cavaliers at legendary Madison […]

After the earlier debacle of prompting the New York Knicks made a mistake by passing on Dennis Smith Jr. in the 2017 NBA Draft, LeBron James tried to rectify his approach by showering rookie Frank Ntilikina with praise ahead of a back-to-back matchup against the Knicks. “I think he knows how to play the game,” […]

Kyle O’Quinn has worked his way as the go-to backup center for head coach Jeff Hornacek and the New York Knicks. Due to his superb consistency, rumor has it that O’Quinn is up for another contract. O’Quinn has played for 75 games, eight of which are part of the starting line up. Per 36 minutes, […]

With the L.A. Clippers’ 134-115 blowout loss on Saturday afternoon at the hands of the surging Denver Nuggets, they were officially eliminated from the wild Western Conference playoff race. Additionally, according to a Reddit thread on Saturday started by user clockairdown, something was officially done today that hadn’t happened with the NBA’s two largest markets […]

He was supposed to be a Spur for life. After winning a championship and the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award in 2014, and finishing in the top three in the regular season MVP race last season, Kawhi Leonard was destined for greatness in a San Antonio Spurs jersey. He was the successor to Tim […]

Come summer, all eyes will be on LeBron James. Critics and most fans believe that the Cleveland Cavaliers star is bound to leave his team again in the offseason. No one knows where he’ll eventually go. Maybe not even James himself knows where he’ll end up. So someone in New York decided to help him out. […]

Enes Kanter is hopeful to see some game action during the New York Knicks’ last four games of the season but still does not know if he’ll be cleared with back spasms and a wrist injury that has caused him to miss the last two games. The Knicks are hoping to be able to shut […]

The New York Knicks will finish out their season with four games, the last two coming against the Cleveland Cavaliers. If fans didn’t have their share of fireworks from the game action, center Enes Kanter is sure to provide them this time around, as the Turkish international still has a sour taste in his mouth […]

New York Knicks head coach Jeff Hornacek has a lot of people waving pitchforks at his doorstep right now. All of them want him fired from his post. That group, however, does not include Knicks guard Courtney Lee, who clearly stated which side he is on when he gave a passionate defense of New York’s […]

New York Knicks forward-center Enes Kanter may have caused a dentist seven and a half years in prison for taking a picture. As reported by TurkeyPurge, a dentist known as A.I.B. has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, more than a year after he was detained due to his picture with Kanter […]

Shortly before 11:00 a.m. Monday morning, news came down the wire stating that New York Knicks forward Troy Williams will be ruled out for the remainder of this season due to a fractured jaw which he sustained in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s 115-109 loss to the Detroit Pistons. The Knicks announce Troy Williams suffered […]

After three seasons, the New York Knicks and President of Basketball Operations Phil Jackson mutually parted ways prior to the start of the 2017-18 NBA season. Despite 13 championships as a player and head coach, Jackson could not turn around the franchise he once played for. Along with Jackson’s feud with Carmelo Anthony, he insisted […]

The New York Knicks lost a home game to the Detroit Pistons Saturday afternoon, 115-109, but the matchup wasn’t short on breathtaking plays from both teams. Take this one from Knicks forward Michael Beasley. With the Knicks trailing by seven points midway through the fourth and final quarter, the 6-foot-9 forward split the defense of […]

New York Knicks head coach Jeff Hornacek insisted the recent lineup changes and minute allocations made after the All-Star break have been solely decided by himself and his coaching staff, with no influence by the team’s front office. Hornacek warned prior to the All-Star break that his team would see an infusion of younger faces […]

With New York Knicks star power forward Kristaps Porzingis in the process of making a full recovery from his torn left ACL suffered in early February, head coach Jeff Hornacek is confident that the All-Star will still play a very large role towards free agents signing with the Knicks this offseason. According to an article […]

Enes Kanter saw no signs of ill will on his countryman Ersan Ilyasova, after the latter had a reckless challenge on Kanter’s dunk attempt, causing a scary fall that left many New York Knicks fans holding their breath for their starting center. The 6-foot-11, 245-pound Kanter streaked toward the rim and was challenged by a […]

The New York Knicks are no longer playing for a spot in the playoffs, which was expected of them by many long before they were officially eliminated from postseason contention. With a few games left on their regular-season schedule and nothing meaningful else to play for, the Knicks and their front office are beginning to […]

Just like in previous seasons, the New York Knicks are about to finish another forgettable campaign. They are out of playoff contention and are merely rounding out their schedule by playing one meaningless game after another. Overseeing this disappointing Knicks season is head coach Jeff Hornacek, who has been sitting on a hot seat for […]

For former lottery pick Trey Burke, it appears that things are working out well as he is finally thriving with the New York Knicks. While he was still in the G-League earlier this season, he talked with James Herbert of CBS Sports about what he thought he could eventually become. Coming into this season Burke […]

Despite the acquisition of former lottery pick Emmanuel Mudiay prior to the NBA trade deadline and the promise of more playing time for another Top 10 draftee in Frank Ntilikina, former college standout Trey Burke has been the feel-good story for an otherwise lost season for the New York Knicks. Having stepped up his play […]

New York Knicks center Enes Kanter, who is of Turkish descent, has never been one to keep his political opinions to himself regarding his home country. Doing so, however, has caused him some trouble. The Turkish government has said repeatedly that it wants to put him in jail and has even threatened Kanter’s family, who […]

It looks like New York Knicks coach Jeff Hornacek took a page out of Steve Kerr’s playbook and gave it to Tim Hardaway Jr. to run. In a game on Monday against the Charlotte Hornets, Hornacek decided to let Hardaway draw up a play for the guys on the floor. Hardaway, who finished with 17 […]

Has Trey Burke finally found his stride? The New York Knicks guard, who was acquired by the team early this year has set a franchise record. As posted by the Knicks’ PR team, the ninth overall pick in the 2013 draft is the first Knicks guard to log in 40 points and 10 assists since […]

Washington Wizards shooting guard Bradley Beal was utterly disappointed in his team’s 101-97 loss to the New York Knicks; a team out of playoff contention that is playing its young assets until the end of the season. The Knicks had seven players in double figures, fighting toe-to-toe in a pretty even matchup that only saw […]

Trey Burke has been dynamite throughout this second half of the season, and Sunday’s game against the Washington Wizards was no exception, dropping a game-high 19 points against his former team. Wizards shooting guard Bradley Beal noted Burke’s play was incentivized by a potential revenge game against the team he played for last season, but […]

Back in Friday night’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves at Madison Square Garden, New York Knicks center Kyle O’Quinn was shown on MSG Network’s cameras yelling expletives towards Jeff Hornacek who was upset with O’Quinn for not closing out on defense better on a 3-pointer by Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns. However, according to an article written […]

With just nine games remaining on the New York Knicks’ schedule after tonight’s contest against the Minnesota Timberwolves, it will finally be able to turn the page on what has turned out to be a forgettable 2017-18 season for the Knicks. One of the issues that New York immediately plans to address over the offseason, likely through […]

Jeff Hornacek’s days as the New York Knicks’ head coach seem to be numbered but it still didn’t stop him from voicing out what the team needs. As reported by Al Iannazzone of Newsday, Hornacek said that the Knicks need to address the small forward position: “I think if you look around at the top teams […]

Trae Young made the first major appearance of his post-collegiate career in ESPN’s First Take, logically prompted by native New Yorker Steven A. Smith of the possibility of playing for his hometown Knicks. The Oklahoma product replied eagerly, noting that dealing with the media during his lone breakout season in college has prepared him to […]

The latest in the rumor mill points towards Mark Jackson possibly becoming the New York Knicks’ new head coach next season. According to the New York Times’ Marc Stein, Jackson is a possible candidate to replace current head coach Jeff Hornacek. The former Knicks guard Mark Jackson keeps coming up as a hot name to succeed Hornacek, […]

Inside the court basketball arena, players and coaches alike view their opponents as foes they want to beat to a pulp. Yet outside its confines, they view each other as worthy confidantes. The recent comments of Charlotte Hornets head coach Steve Clifford is a testament to this fact. As reported by Ian Begley of ESPN, […]