Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Hats off to Leon Rose & Co. for assembling this team of superheroes. A great team is the sum of its parts, and the 2023-24 New York Knicks (50-32) squad has exceptional parts. Not only did individual players stand out during the regular season, but they also appeared atop the NBA’s leaderboards. In time, we’ll cover each player individually; for now, here are some team-high statistics and how they compare to the league. Note that for our purposes, we have focused on regular rotation players who averaged more than 15 minutes per game. (Sorry, Jericho, that edged y ..read more

Photo by Justin Ford/Getty Images Nearly 15 years later we got to watch “The Video” courtesy of Pablo Torre’s digging. The New York Knicks had a shot at landing the GOAT basketball player in the summer of 2010. They opted to go with a 10-minute video pitch to try and sell the city and the franchise to LeBron James, but ultimately LJ ditched them by bringing his talents to South Beach. Once a top-secret, unreleased, not-meant-to-be-seen clip, the pitch has finally emerged after former ESPN investigative journalist Pablo Torre somehow got access to it, aired, and analyzed the footage in the late ..read more

Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images DiVo played 81 of 82 games but still needed to play nine more seconds. New York Knicks guard Donte DiVincenzo, he of the 283 3-point conversions in a single season, will not be eligible for the Most Improved Player Award this season due to a specific NBA rule regarding game and playing time qualifications. In case you’re wondering, DiVo appeared in 81 of the 82 games this season, his first one in New York. He started 63 of those 81 games. He averaged 25.4 minutes per game for a total of 2360 minutes throughout the course of the season. Yet, DiVincenzo didn’t m ..read more

Photo by Stephen Nadler/PxImages/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Thibodeau, Brunson, Mitchell Robinson and others spoke for the first time ahead of the playoffs. The Knicks enjoyed a day off on Monday but they got back to work on Tuesday as they gear up for the first round of the playoffs where they will meet one of Miami or Philadelphia for a seven-game series New York surely hopes to end in four—all victories. With no Eastern Conference basketball played during the first couple of days of the week and the Play-In matchup between Sixers and Heat scheduled for Wednesday evening, it’s not that ..read more

Wendell Cruz-USA TODAY Sports 23 and Me, playoff style. The New York Knicks have done the improbable, clinching the two seed in the Eastern Conference on the final day of the regular season. A game-82 matchup with the Bulls was pushed to overtime, but the Knicks prevailed, reaching the 50-win mark for the first time since the 2012-13 season and ultimately clinching home court for at least two series (should they get there). That being said, the job’s just getting started. The real season starts on Saturday, with the Knicks hosting the first game of their first-round matchup. Tomorrow, their op ..read more

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images We just have to accept some things will never change... Breaking, Breaking! Jalen Brunson keeps getting disrespected! Despite putting together an MVP-level season leading the Knicks to the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference, Brunson’s season won’t finish later than June this summer. Not that we’re that surprised, considering the agendas being pushed out there by media folks everywhere... The U.S. men’s basketball team’s roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics, according to a report by Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, won’t feature Brunson in it. There is still a litt ..read more

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images For the fourth time this season In a crucial last week of the regular season that started with the Knicks not knowing what seed they’d go into the playoffs as, Jalen Brunson, as he has all season long, came up big and has been named as the Eastern Conference Player of the Week. The All-Star point guard averaged 38.5PPG, 7.5APG, and 3.5RPG while leading New York to a perfect 4-0 record en route to securing the franchise’s first 50-win season since 2013. Brunson, who last received the award on March 18th, has now won four Player of the Week awards this season and has w ..read more

Cover via Cornell University Press Published today, a new book reflects on a rocky era of Knicks history and its connection to Black cultural movements in NYC. Like many Knicks fans, author Adam J. Criblez has experienced a spiritual intertwining of NBA basketball and Black culture. His dates back to 1992, when he played Tecmo NBA Basketball while listening to Dr. Dre, which sounds eerily familiar to my childhood, although my jam was Public Enemy. In his new book, released today, Criblez reflects upon the Knicks’ so-called Golden Age, which culminated in 1973, and what he deems the Silver Age ..read more

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images Knicks win 50, earn No. 2 seed, instill fear in the East. Only once this season the Knicks gifted fans free basketball, and that didn’t even happen within the walls of the Mecca. Until Sunday, that was, as they needed five extra minutes of playing time to stiff-arm a ridiculously resilient Bulls squad that wasn’t into messing with the Basketball Gods. Kudos to Chicago, who was playing for nothing but still put up a fight. And kudos to New York because it was the lone team across the NBA landscape playing for something that didn’t toy with seed ..read more

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Knicks 120, Bulls 119: Jalen Brunson, 40 points; Josh Hart double-double; Donte DiVincenzo, five triples; and the New York Knicks . . . second seed! In their final game of the regular season, the New York Knicks (49-32) hosted the Chicago Bulls (39-42) in a matinee at Madison Square Garden. The Bulls had the ninth seed of the Eastern Conference locked down, while the Knicks were aiming to secure either the second, third, or fourth spots and their 50th win. No pressure. In a close game where neither team was particularly dominant—including a 21-19 (NY) second-quarter ..read more