Does Money Really Matter Most In NBA Lockout?
NBA owners apparently weren't bluffing when they said they wanted competitive balance just as much as a chance to profit.
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NBA owners apparently weren't bluffing when they said they wanted competitive balance just as much as a chance to profit.
Leave it to the NBA to ruin their revival. David Stern and Billy Hunter are engaged in a perilous staring contest. They both better blink soon, or the consequences could be calamitous.
Will there be NBA basketball this season? Who knows. But if the league does tip off in 2011-12, a rehabbed-and-ready Carmelo Anthony will be there for the Knicks.
I should have been watching an NBA preseason game last night. In three weeks, I should be watching the Knicks start their season against the Miami Heat. That's not going to happen.
Two weeks of NBA games are lost. Many more could be in jeopardy.
Carmelo Anthony fully expects the NBA to cancel some regular-season games soon, and said players around the league have been bracing to hear that grim news.
Without an agreement by Monday, the beginning of the NBA season will be canceled, and both sides will lose millions of dollars and perhaps countless fans.
With perhaps days left to avoid further damage, negotiators for owners and players are talking again in hopes of ending the lockout.
Knicks cornerstones Amar'e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony are planning to headline a charity game featuring some of the NBA's top players in Miami on Oct. 8.
Knicks star Carmelo Anthony revealed on Sunday that he had offseason arthroscopic surgery on his left knee and a procedure on his right elbow. "Can't tell, can you?" he said.
So it's come down to this: no labor deal, no training camps and no telling what else the NBA could lose.
The long looks on players' faces and the anger in Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver's voice made it obvious: There was no progress Tuesday in talks to end the impasse.
With Wednesday marking the one-year anniversary for the Boomer & Carton Morning Extravaganza on the MSG Network, the guys got a visit from the Knicks City Dancers to commemorate the momentous occasion.
The New York Knicks have hired former Atlanta Hawks coach Mike Woodson as an assistant to Mike D'Antoni.
Carmelo Anthony is wrapping up their weeklong promotional tour in China and says his options are open if there is no resolution to the NBA lockout.
It doesn't seem like the owners or players are willing to lose an entire season, but a 60 game season beginning in January is a distinct possibility.
The memories of a thrilling NBA season that saw the Knicks finally back in the playoffs might have to last for a while. There's no telling when basketball will be back.
Carmelo Anthony reportedly led the Knicks to the NBA playoffs for the first time since 2003-4 with an ailing right elbow. According to the New York Post, the superstar "has been secretly rehabbing" from a bout of elbow bursitis that flared up in February.
Representatives for NBA players and owners will meet Thursday in New York City, hours before the collective bargaining agreement expires, and Commissioner David Stern says that's still enough time for a deal.
John Schmeelk's running diary of last night's NBA Draft and a detailed analysis of the Knicks picks.
Wally Szczerbiak made the trip to Manhattan this morning so he could sit down face-to-face with Craig and break down last night's NBA draft.
With Boomer out taking a day to himself ( translation: a reprieve from his radio partner), Craig was on his own to cover a whole myriad of topics, beginning with the Knicks using the 17th selection in last night's NBA draft to take guard Iman Shumpert out of Georgia Tech.
With a crowd at the Prudential Center in Newark that included No. 1 fan Spike Lee chanting "Let's Go Knicks!" as the pick was to be announced Thursday night, Georgia Tech's Iman Shumpert's name drew a mixed reaction that included boos.
As the Knicks count down the hours to the NBA draft, they can't help but feel somewhat powerless. The one sure-fire way the team can get who they really want? By trading up.
Sorry, Knicks fans. The Suns are again shooting down Steve Nash trade rumors. In an email on Wednesday, Suns President of Basketball Operations Lon Babby said: "We are not trading Steve Nash, period, exclamation point."
