Everyone on the Knicks is to blame for this ‘embarrassing’ rock bottom
NY Post
It was a collaborative effort: they all sucked.
Somewhere, most likely in a film room, Tom Thibodeau must’ve been counting his $30-plus million and chuckling at the idea of getting canned because he didn’t collaborate with players and staffers. Or, more importantly, James Dolan, who apparently bailed on the second half, must’ve been second-guessing his declarations of just two weeks prior, when the owner said his Knicks, as constituted and without the need of a major trade, should advance to the NBA Finals.
Dolan’s goals looked distant and impossible on MLK Day at MSG, where the Knicks, at full strength, were trampled and embarrassed by the skeleton crew Mavericks 114-97.
The pitifulness of the performance is impossible to overstate. The Mavericks (18-26) are not good. Their injury report Monday was like a CVS receipt. No Kyrie Irving. No Anthony Davis. No D’Angelo Russell. No P.J. Washington or Daniel Gafford. The Knicks (25-18), meanwhile, fancy themselves title contenders and had everybody. Jalen Brunson returned. Josh Hart did, too.
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Where were the grownups for Team USA?
The Rangers reconvened after the Olympic stoppage wanting to find some successful combinations that had been largely absent through much of a disappointing last-place season.
SALT LAKE CITY — There was no sugarcoating an ugly first-half performance from the Knicks in the locker room, and the harsh words during the break helped spur a comeback in Wednesday’s 134-117 victory over the Jazz.
Team USA’s fate is out of its hands.
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If Isaiah Likely was the most … er … likely former Raven to follow head coach John Harbaugh to the Giants, Patrick Ricard wasn’t far behind.
The deal that brought Aidan Thompson to the Rangers didn’t create the ripple effects that the Artemi Panarin trade did because of who departed the organization. That was only Derrick Pouliot, a 32-year-old defenseman more than two years removed from his last NHL game. It didn’t create the waves like one for, say, Vincent Trocheck, would have because of current NHL players or draft capital the Blueshirts received in return, either.