Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images Quotes from a few Philadelphia 76ers players and head coach on the New York Knicks... The Knicks keep getting ready for the start of their series against the Sixers tipping off on Saturday evening. So does Philly, who had to beat Miami (and did so by a tiny one-point margin) in the Play-In Tournament to reach the playoffs and the right to try and beat the No. 2 seed New York while getting the No. 7 for themselves. Consider this a little, special edition of our Knicks Bulletin only in this case covering a bunch of stuff said and heard from the enemy lines. Here ..read more

Photo by Brian Fluharty/Getty Images Saturday cannot come soon enough. Here’s what your Knickerbockers have said of late. The Knicks keep getting ready for the start of their series against the Sixers tipping off on Saturday evening. Thursday was the first day for the Knicks practicing and learning plays finally knowing their first-round opponent after Philly beat Miami on Wednesday. Here’s everything Tom Thibodeau and some other Knicks have said in the past few hours. Tom Thibodeau On Jalen Brunson’s skill set... “His impact on everything we do is everywhere.” On New York Rangers head coach P ..read more

Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports Stats, keys, predictions, and everything else you need to know ahead of the Game 1 tip-off! Having beaten the Miami Heat in a down to the wire nailbiter, the Philadelphia 76ers will now move on to face off against division rivals New York Knicks in the first round of the eastern conference. So, now that the matchup is set, let’s take a deeper look at the series. First off are the expectations. Unlike most matchups between the number two and number seven seed, many have this series being a close one with some even believing that the 76ers are favorites. Charl ..read more

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images The Knicks came back to work at Tarrytown on Wednesday and they sounded nothing but ready. The Knicks enjoyed a bit of time off after clinching the No. 2 seed with their win against the Bulls on Sunday but they hit the court at Tarrytown on Wednesday while waiting to know their first-round opponent. A bunch of players and coach Thibs spoke after practice still without knowing they will be meeting the reigning MVP and the Philadelphia 76ers starting Saturday. Here is what a few Knickerbockers had to say yesterday. Tom Thibodeau On whether or no ..read more

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images The Sixers defeat the Heat in the play-in game to advance. With their 105-104 squeaker over the Miami Heat in Wednesday night’s play-in game, the Philadelphia 76ers will advance to face the New York Knicks in the first round of the playoffs. Game 1 will take place at 6 pm on Saturday at Madison Square Garden. Philadelphia finished the season as the seventh seed of the Eastern Conference. The Knicks overtook the Milwaukee Bucks to claim the second seed. New York won their regular season matchups, 3-1. In the one loss, neither team broke 80 points. To defeat t ..read more

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