Kristaps Porzingis

Kevin Garnett apparently has a soft spot for New York Knicks rookie Kristaps Porzingis. When Porzingis was drafted fourth overall at the 2015 prospect pageant, it was to the dismay of many Knicks fans. People booed. They jeered. One poor soul cried on camera. The initial displeasure was twofold. Most casual fans had just never [...]

Hassan Whiteside blocks a lot of shots for the Miami Heat. In the eyes of opponents, he’s blocking too many shots. He’s sending back a league-leading 4.8 per game, with a block percentage (12.9, per Basketball-Reference) that’s through the roof. While those numbers may be unsustainable over the life of an entire 82-game NBA schedule, [...]

Anyone pulling for the New York Knicks to unload Jose Calderon ahead of the NBA’s February trade deadline might want to invest their sporting hopes in something else. Rookie sensation/Dirk Nowitzki-DeAndre Jordan hybrid/Future Hall of Famer/Eventual 10-time champion/Inevitable 12-time MVP Kristaps Porzingis loves Calderon, so that means the 34-year-old floor general isn’t going anywhere. This [...]

Carmelo Anthony seems excited about the New York Knicks’ future. So long as the future includes Kristaps Porzingis. The 20-year-old asparagus spear that many Knicks fans booed on draft night had himself another encouraging, if outright dominant, outing on Tuesday night in the Knicks’ win over the Charlotte Hornets. He finished with 29 points and [...]

Kristaps Porzingis has the approval of Anthony Davis. Which means Porzingis is officially free to retire. Davis and Porzingis squared off against one another on Sunday. The box score would suggest that Davis got the better of him, and on an individual level, he clearly did. But the New York Knicks would end up beating [...]

Four games into the season, the New York Knicks’ highly-touted rookie in Kristaps Porzingis has been proving his critics wrong thus far. The fourth overall pick of this year’s draft has posted respectable averages of 11.3 points and 6.3 rebounds. This has definitely given Knicks fans more reason to feel optimistic about not just their [...]

Kristaps Porzingis is hurt. Again. But his injury isn’t believed to be serious. Again. Late in the fourth quarter of the New York Knicks’ 94-84 loss to the San Antonio Spurs, Porzingis and Carmelo Anthony were involved in a chaotic scrum for an offensive rebound; Anthony came up with it and either fell or stepped [...]

Depending on the day and the source, the New York Knicks either spurned Greg Monroe in free agency or were burned by him. On this day, the latter seems more accurate. Greg Monroe was thought to be one of the Knicks’ top targets over the summer. Many went as far as putting him in a [...]

If the New York Knicks, winners of just 17 games last season, make the 2016 NBA playoffs, plenty of people will be shocked. ESPN NBA analysts Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy will not be among those people. Nor, for the record, will I. The Knicks are going to have a much-improved defense, and Carmelo [...]

Carmelo Anthony clearly doesn’t see a repeat of the 17-win dumpster fire that the New York Knicks called a 2014-15 season. Nor does he see only marked improvement. Considering his reaction to record projections floating around the social-media sphere, he expects the Knicks to be so, so, so, so much better than they were last [...]