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“The New York Knicks are the premier global brand in basketball, period,” Steve Stoute, a music executive and the founder of the ad agency Translation, declared recently over breakfast. That night, the Knicks were blown out at home by the Memphis Grizzlies. Fans at Madison Square Garden chanted “Sell the team!” at James L. Dolan, […] More
LOS ANGELES — Among his many pregame duties whenever the Houston Rockets are on the road, Tony Nila scrawls each player’s nickname on a strip of masking tape and affixes it to the top of that player’s locker. Nila, the team’s equipment manager, refers to Russell Westbrook as “Why Not.” Tyson Chandler goes by “OG.” […] More
Fears of an underwhelming N.B.A. trade deadline were washed away on Thursday, when 11 separate deals came to fruition before the league’s 3 p.m. Eastern time buzzer. Further fears that the most significant action of the week would belong to Major League Baseball — after the Los Angeles Dodgers’ deal with the Boston Red Sox […] More
Leon Rose, an N.B.A. agent at Creative Artists Agency, will take over as the Knicks’ team president, a person with knowledge of the team’s plans who was not authorized to discuss them publicly said on Thursday. While Rose does not have experience in basketball operations, he has a deep well of connections to star players, […] More
Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. The blockbuster trade on Jan. 31, 2019 that dispatched Kristaps Porzingis to the Dallas Mavericks from New York had much of the league reaching the same conclusion: The Knicks must know something. They quickly convinced countless rival teams that they […] More
For much of the last two decades, Steve Mills has been in the Knicks orbit, whether as a high-ranking executive with the Madison Square Garden Company or as the person in charge of basketball decisions for the franchise. It seemed that nothing could shake the faith of James L. Dolan, the team’s owner. Not a […] More
STORRS, Conn. — The postgame tableau at Gampel Pavilion, of a disappointed Geno Auriemma analyzing what went wrong, was unfamiliar. After his team’s 74-56 loss to Oregon on Monday night, Auriemma, the longtime coach of the UConn women’s basketball team, was left to analyze exactly why his team didn’t just lose on its campus court […] More
I was in a CVS in Harlem when I first heard the news. My friend James, who rarely, if ever, talks about sports, had sent me a one-word text message: “Kobe?” “Kobe what?” He said people were saying that Kobe Bryant had died. I shrugged it off. I figured it was just a false alarm […] More
