Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images 41 down, 41 to go. Following last night’s defeat at the hands of the up-and-coming Detroit Pistons, the Knicks are officially at the halfway point of the 2024-25 season. Doesn’t feel like it, right? We’re as close to the playoffs as we were to Opening Night. There have been ups (9-game winning streak), downs (the last two weeks), and maddening meh-ness (first 12 games). Overall, the Knicks are 26-15, third in the Eastern Conference, and on pace for 52 wins, the most since 2012-13. Overall? I’d give the team a B+. Some will complain about being ..read more

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images The new year has been unkind to New York. On January 1st, just two weeks ago (if you can believe it), the Knicks picked apart the Utah Jazz in front of a home crowd. The Knickerbockers won their ninth straight game, and national headlines were buzzing about New York. Thibodeau had figured it out, they claimed. Brunson and KAT were clicking on both sides of the floor, Anunoby and Bridges were playing like the best 3-and-D wings in the league, and Josh Hart was doing typical Josh Hart things. The league was officially on watch. Needless to say ..read more

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images Will the New York Knicks win two games in a row in the 2025 years of our Lord? The loss to OKC might have been the worst of the season for the Knicks, but the game they dropped on Monday against the Pistons, considering they did so on back-to-back, carbon-copies the same mistakes and was embarrassing at best. New York dropped its second game to Motown, with Monday’s 124-119 defeat being quite damaging because of awful late-game defense. Anyway, here’s what Coach Thibs and a few Knickerbockers had to say after yesterday’s disappointing game ..read more

Photo by Jordan Johnson/NBAE via Getty Images The Simulation could soon be over. The New York Knicks are exploring trade options for center Jericho Sims ahead of the February 6 trade deadline, according to Stefan Bondy of the New York Post. Sims, currently sidelined with back spasms, has fallen out of the Knicks’ rotation in recent games and could be moved to make room for additional frontcourt depth, as long as New York can convince someone to fall for the trap of trading for Jericho. “Jericho Sims, recently removed from the Knicks rotation and inactive Monday with back spasms, is being shop ..read more

Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images Three Knicks log triple doubles, but an inability to shut down the perimeter lets Detroit escape with a win. In the second game of a back-to-back, the New York Knicks (26-15) hosted the Detroit Pistons (21-19) tonight at Madison Square Garden. The Motor City club had won nine of their last eleven and bested New York in their last meeting to tie the season series 1-1. The Knicks easily handled the Giannis and the Bucks yesterday, but we had a hunch that the surging Pistons might prove a tougher test. They sure looked like it in the first quarter. Detroit jum ..read more

Photo by Stephen Gosling/NBAE via Getty Images New York looks to avenge their previous loss to the Pistons and maintain their momentum from yesterday’s win. The New York Knicks (26-14) host the Detroit Pistons (20-19) at Madison Square Garden on Monday. It’s the second game of a back-to-back for New York, following their trouncing of the Milwaukee Bucks yesterday. Meanwhile, the Pistons, led by Cade Cunningham, have won nine of their last 11 games and beat the Knicks 120-111 on Pearl Harbor Day. Should be a spicy rematch tonight. Tip off is 7:30 p.m. EST on MSG Network and NBA League Pass. Thi ..read more

Getty/Antonio Losada Forever Resilient By the end of the 2003-04 season, DerMarr Johnson had rejuvenated his NBA career. He had beaten the odds of making it back to the NBA and proving all his doubters wrong. After playing 21 games with the Knicks and helping them reach the playoffs, they were eliminated in the first round by his former college teammate Kenyon Martin and the New Jersey Nets. As Johnson’s initial plan of resigning with the Knicks fell through, he expressed a strong desire to reunite with Martin in New Jersey. However, when Martin was traded to the Denver Nuggets during the offs ..read more

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images New York aims to win back-to-back games for the first time in two weeks. The Knicks are entering a Monday’s game off a win, something that has happened just twice in the first 12 days of the 2025 calendar year, coincidentally only ahead of matchups against the OKC Thunder. This opponent is quite different, however, as New York defeated the Bucks on Sunday and will go against the visiting Detroit Pistons inside the comfort of MSG for what could be their first consecutive wins since they put dub-and-dub together for the last time in Dec. 30-Jan. 1. The Eastern Conferen ..read more

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images Finally, the Knicks won against what can be considered a basketball team. Someone had to pay for the Knicks woes as they were inevitably going to explode at some point, and in this case, it was the poor Milwaukee Bucks who got demolished on Sunday, final score 140-106 inside the walls of the Garden. New York enjoyed a trouncing, had a very serious scare involving Captain J, and ultimately went home happy and with the Knicks looking as good as they’ve ever done after a putrid stretch of results. Here’s what Coach Thibs, a few Knickerbockers, an ..read more

Brad Penner-Imagn Images Also: Brunson = good “Hell is empty,” Shakespeare wrote in The Tempest, “and all the devils are here.” The Knicks probably felt that way Friday as the Oklahoma City Thunder stormed and swarmed Madison Square Garden like a pack of ring wraiths. But just as the Thunder are a problem the Knicks have yet to come close to solving, the Knicks have become the nut the Milwaukee Bucks just can’t crack, with Sunday’s 140-106 win their fourth straight over the Bucks. Normally being down 13 at the half is a disappointment, but the last time these teams met in early November that d ..read more