Lichtenstein: Welcome Back, Jason Kidd
Usually a heartbreaking Nets loss like this has me frothing at the mouth, with excessive complaints about my team. Oh, they still exist, but I'm choosing to refrain for one day.
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Usually a heartbreaking Nets loss like this has me frothing at the mouth, with excessive complaints about my team. Oh, they still exist, but I'm choosing to refrain for one day.
If the rivalry hadn't started when the Nets left New Jersey and set up shop in the Knicks' city, it surely arrived when Jason Kidd delivered the tiebreaking 3-pointer Tuesday night, making himself an enemy of his former franchise.
There is far less hype surrounding the second meeting between the Knicks and the Nets on Tuesday night than there was for their first game a couple of weeks ago.
"We're ready, we will be ready," Carmelo Anthony said. "That first game, we didn't think they did anything to beat us. We kind of beat ourselves. We have that in the back of our minds."
Melo is wearing his heart on his sleeve every night and playing the most motivated basketball of his 10-year NBA career.
Carmelo Anthony returned from a two-game absence with 34 points against his former team, and the New York Knicks beat the Denver Nuggets 112-106 on Sunday night to remain the NBA's lone unbeaten team at home.
Carmelo Anthony will return to the Knicks' lineup tonight against the Denver Nuggets.
Knicks' shooters went cold on Saturday night as the Bulls snapped the Knicks' five-game winning streak.
AmericanAirlines Arena had been a fortress for the Miami Heat. That was until the New York Knicks showed up.
The Knicks were unstoppable in Miami. It was D'Antoni's system at its best, the only way New York could have won without Carmelo Anthony.
Another Knicks-Heat game, another 20-point Knicks win. And if that isn't surprising enough, this one happened with Carmelo Anthony on the sideline.
The Knicks averted what could have been a devastating loss ahead of their showdown with the Heat. Instead, it was a feel-good victory that can carry into Thursday night's nationally televised game
J.R. Smith has supreme confidence and no fear of taking big shots in crunch time. It's an invaluable -- yet dangerous -- mindset.
J.R. Smith is normally the guy watching Carmelo Anthony hit the game-winning shot, not the one knocking it down. But with Anthony nursing a lacerated finger, the Knicks turned to Smith for the last shot and the eight-year NBA veteran delivered.
Without Anthony the Knicks would be nowhere -- the same place they would be without Mike Woodson. The Knicks' head coach has done a number of things this year that deserve a ton of recognition.
