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J.J. Barea Open To a Return with the Mavericks

J.J. Barea Open To a Return with the Mavericks

J.J. Barea hasn’t forgotten how much he loved playing for the Dallas Mavericks. The point guard spent five seasons in Dallas, mostly as a backup, before signing with the Minnesota Timberwolves in the summer of 2011. His departure was and remains unsettling, since it came just after the Mavs beat the Miami Heat in the [...]

September 3, 2013 admin Blogs 0

Mark Cuban Has No Regrets About Mavs’ Rebuilding Plan

Mark Cuban Has No Regrets About Mavs’ Rebuilding Plan

Mark Cuban’s not sorry that he’s not sorry. Since his Dallas Mavericks won an NBA title in 2011, Cuban has taken a lot of flack for the decisions he’s made or simply allowed to be made. After Dirk Nowitzki led them to a championship over the Miami Heat, the team was essentially dismantled. Just like [...]

August 7, 2013 admin Blogs 0

Knicks Stop Amar’e Stoudemire From Working with Hakeem Olajuwon

Knicks Stop Amar’e Stoudemire From Working with Hakeem Olajuwon

This is the moment all New York Knicks fans have been waiting for, but not in a good away. According to the New York Post‘s Marc Berman, Amar’e Stoudemire won’t be returning to Hakeem Olajuwon’s camp to work on his post moves this summer, as the team believes his surgically-repaired knees need rest: Stoudemire will [...]

August 2, 2013 admin Blogs 0

Metta World Peace on Joining Knicks: ‘I Want to Win’

Metta World Peace on Joining Knicks: ‘I Want to Win’

Like Carmelo Anthony before him, Metta World Peace has finally come home. After spending nearly a decade and a half elsewhere, World Peace has joined the New York Knicks, the team that passed over him in the 1999 NBA draft in favor of Frederic Weis. Long past his prime, World Peace is also far removed [...]

July 16, 2013 admin Blogs 0

Carmelo Anthony Wanted Knicks To Trade for Rajon Rondo

Carmelo Anthony Wanted Knicks To Trade for Rajon Rondo

Carmelo Anthony is right. And he’s wrong. All at once. According to Marc Berman of the New York Post, ‘Melo wanted the Knicks to trade for Rajon Rondo after the Boston Celtics dealt future Hall of Famers Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce: Anthony told friends after the Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce trade to the [...]

July 10, 2013 admin Blogs 0

Carmelo Anthony May Leave Knicks for Lakers in 2014

Carmelo Anthony May Leave Knicks for Lakers in 2014

The New York Knicks should be afraid. Very afraid. Carmelo Anthony, the lone superstar on the Knicks’ roster can become an unrestricted free agent next summer, an opportunity he will likely seize. Then 30, this will be ‘Melo’s first chance to explore free agency, and he’s not going to pass it up. He’ll join a [...]

July 9, 2013 admin Blogs 0

Knicks Re-sign J.R. Smith and Pablo Prigioni

Knicks Re-sign J.R. Smith and Pablo Prigioni

J.R. Smith now has more than 24 million reasons to smile. The New York Knicks re-signed two key cogs in their close-to-a-championship machine, in Smith and Pablo Prigioni. According to Marc Berman of the New York Post, Smith’s deal is worth a reported $24.7 million over the next four years. The fourth year, per Howard [...]

July 4, 2013 admin Blogs 0

Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony Won’t Have Surgery

Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony Won’t Have Surgery

New York Knicks mega star Carmelo Anthony doesn’t expect to have surgery on his injured shoulder. Per Mike Mazzeo and Jared Zwerling of ESPNNewYork.com, ‘Melo doesn’t believe he’ll need to go under the knife to repair a partially torn labrum in his left shoulder: New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony told reporters that he does [...]

June 28, 2013 admin Blogs 0

Knicks May Lose Chris Copeland to Pacers or Pelicans

Knicks May Lose Chris Copeland to Pacers or Pelicans

As if the New York Knicks weren’t in a bad enough position this offseason. Already faced with the prospect of losing J.R. Smith in free agency, the Knicks reportedly are going to have some heavy competition for rookie sensation Chris Copeland. But a team that could make a hard push J.R. Smith is the Suns, [...]

June 25, 2013 admin Blogs 0

Doc Rivers Trade Allows NY Knicks to Move on from Chris Paul

Doc Rivers Trade Allows NY Knicks to Move on from Chris Paul

Chris Paul was never going to join Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks. Never, ever. Now that Doc Rivers has joined the Los Angeles Clippers, we can finally accept that. The Boston Celtics agreed to part ways with their long-time head coach in exchange for an unprotected first-round draft pick from the Clippers in [...]

June 24, 2013 admin Blogs 0