The announcement came down this morning, as expected: J.R. Smith has been voted the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year. This is entirely appropriate. Smith was easily the most valuable bench player in the league; he scored 18.1 points per game, played effective defense, rebounded well, limited turnovers (the supposedly… Read More →
This is a joke, right? The Nets acquired a six-time all star in Joe Johnson to start at shooting guard, paying him max money. The Knicks grabbed J.R. Smith midseason last year from China, and re-signed him for $2.8 million. So who’s been better? I mean, it pretty clearly is… Read More →
Well, that was exciting. It didn’t matter. It didn’t bear much resemblance to the way the Knicks will ultimately deploy their team in the regular season- John Shurna and Steve Novak were on the court at the same time! But the actual Knicks played actual basketball. And lord, how I… Read More →
So J.R. Smith made it clear this weekend that he’d like to start. “My goal was come in here and be a starter and try to play with the other four guys on the floor,’’ Smith told Marc Berman of the Post. “As of right now we’ll see how up… Read More →
And so it comes down to this. The New York Knicks. The Miami Heat. And really, would you want it any other way? The Knicks (36-30), by virtue of their victory tonight against the historically dreadful Charlotte Bobcats – the outcome of the affair was actually rendered moot when the… Read More →
Rather than break down yesterday’s Nooner-disaster at Madison Square Garden – and considering the rapidly disintegrating Knick state of affairs – I thought readers of this blog would be far better served by a behind-the-scenes interpretation of everything that has been said of late. Coach Mike D’Antoni: We hit a… Read More →
I’m just wrapping up my final snowboarding trip of this winter, so please enjoy the wonderful post-game musings of Mr. Robert Silverman, he of Knickerblogger-fame. If Bob is too funny for you, and you’d prefer something off the beaten trail, Seth Rosenthal also crushes it (he usually does). Barring an… Read More →
