An angry, out-of-control Joel Embiid was pushing and shoving and purposely banging into Knick players all over the court in the 1st half — at one point grabbing Mitchell Robinson‘s legs underneath the basket in a career-threatening, dangerous play — but only got a Flagrant 1 called and got away with many of the other fouls. Robinson missed the second half, after going out with an ankle sprain after the out-of-control Embiid fell on him. Then after regaining his composure at halftime, Embiied burned the Knicks with a 3-pt shooting barrage in the 3rd quarter — going on a roll after any Knick who ..read more

Josh Hart hit three HUGE 3’s late in the 4th quarter, Mitchell Robinson played like a man possessed inside against Joel Embiid, and Miles McBride was the Knicks’ Secret Weapon off the bench, stinging Philadelphia all night with 3-point shooting, tough drives to the hoop, and defense — as NY won a Game 1 BARN BURNER at Madison Square Garden, 111-104 on an early Saturday evening. McBride got the Knicks back in the game after entering late in the 1st quarter, NY down 12. He led the Knick charge back, with help from Bojan Bogdanovic and Mitchell Robinson in the 2nd quarter, as NY took a 12-pt half ..read more

Josh Hart came out of nowhere to put back an offensive rebound off a Donte DiVincenzo drive, and DeMar DeRozan‘s mid-range jumper — with OG Anunoby and DiVincenzo drapped all over him — rolled out with 3 seconds left, Jalen Brunson securing the rebound — to give NY a PRESSURE COOKER win over the Bulls in Overtime. The win vaulted NY to 2nd place in the East to end the season, as Milwaukee and Cleveland had both lost. On a Sunday afternoon at an INSANELY LOUD Madison Square Garden. The final flurry was just an example of a torrid flow of haymakers thrown by the two teams at each other in the 4t ..read more

Jalen Brunson and Mitchell Robinson were Mr. Clutch A and Mr. Clutch B down the stretch as the Knicks warded off the feisty Nets at Madison Square Garden on a Friday night, 111-107. It was a huge win for NY — as they maintain 3rd place in the East with a game to go. Brunson scored the last 8 Knick points, including 4 clutch free throws in the final 11 seconds, and before that, Mitchell Robinson hit 5 of 8 free throws including his last 3 in a row after being intentionally fouled 4 times between the 4- and 2-minutes-left mark. The Knicks had spotted the Nets the first 11 points of the game, and ..read more

The Knicks blew the gaskets off the Celtics in Boston, leading by as many as 31 points near the end of the 3rd quarter in the nationally televised game on TNT on a Thursday night. But the Celtics didn’t care — the announcers kept reminding us — because they had already clinched best record in the NBA and had nothing to play for, and didn’t want any of their players injured. At the end of the game, the Celtics did care, as their reserves came out and played a frenetic brand of basketball to pull within 9 points in the final minute — after the Knicks had stopped caring about the game, up by 24 p ..read more

Jalen Brunson has a new knickname — given to him by Chicago’s Coby White after last night’s game. “Brunson’s a motherfucker,” said White after trying to guard him most of the night as Brunson poured in 45 points and had 8 assists, scoring in every way imaginable — another Stephen Curry-like performance. White (24 pts) did well himself as did DeMar DeRozan (34 pts), Nikola Vucevic (26 pts), and the rest of the Billy Donovan-coached Bulls, who are a tough team that plays good D. But the Knicks were better — taking the lead from the start and never relinquishing it — maintaining a near 10-pt lead ..read more

And just like that, OG Anunoby was back in uniform and by the 2nd half, playing well and looking like the always-in-right-place-at-right-time defender and opportunist off-the-ball scorer the Knicks have come to expect in his short stay with the team. Unfortunately the Knicks got into a 19-point hole against the Bulls in the 1st half, and their comeback in the 2nd half fell short in the 4th. NY was hindered by losing Josh Hart to an inadvertent foul that was ruled a Flagrant-II early in the game, where his foot came up and kicked a Bull in the head. Jalen Brunson was heroic, with 35 points and ..read more

It was yet another game without Julius Randle and OG Anunoby, and yet another hard fought loss for the Knicks — who came back from a 12-point deficit early in the 4th quarter to tie the game at 92 with 3:59 left — only to lose 109-99 in Miami on a Tuesday night. Haywood Highsmith, Terry Rozier Jr, and Bam Adebayo made big buckets down the stretch for Miami, and the Knicks didn’t match it. One begins to wonder if the Knicks will ever see Randle or Anunoby again this season — and if they do, if it will be too late, as the team may not have enough time to acclimate to their return. Miami played a ..read more

Jalen Brunson‘s shot from the corner with a man in his face at the buzzer hit the front of the rim and bounced out, and NY fell to Oklahoma City in a heartbreaker on Easter Sunday night at Madison Square Garden, 113-112. Brunson had just made a spectacular drive-and-1 to put the Knicks ahead 112-111 with 4 seconds left — but the refs didn’t call the foul as Knicks Twitter howled. Oklahoma’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander then hit a jumper from the baseline out of a time out to put Oklahoma ahead 113-112 with 1.8 seconds left — giving NY that much time to inbound and for Brunson to attempt the despera ..read more

The Knicks fell into a 21-point hole in the 2nd quarter, then dug out of it as Jalen Brunson valiantly put the team on his back in the 2nd half — en route to 61 points — 59 of them in regulation — but the victory ultimately slipped through the Knicks fingers. Brunson missed a 3 with 5 seconds left that would have put NY ahead, the rebound grabbed by Precious Achiuwa, who flipped the ball to Donte DiVincenzo in the corner but the ball went out of bounds. Victor Wembanyama‘s 40 points and 21 rebounds gave San Antonio the edge in the 130-126 overtime win in San Antonio on a Friday night. The Refs ..read more