With a record 11 championships to his credit, it’s easy to argue that Phil Jackson is the greatest coach in NBA history. Then again it would be hard not to rack up the rings coaching Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal and Pau Gasol. That’s not to take away from Jackson’s greatness as [...]

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On Tuesday Grant Hill became the first active player to be elected to the basketball Hall of Fame’s Board of Governors. It remains to be seen whether Hill will also become the first player without a ring whose prime was decimated by injuries to earn induction into the Hall of Fame. As for the Board [...]

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The “Welcome, Amare Stoudemire” banner, complete with a picture of the big man in a Knicks uniform, said it all Monday. It’s finally official. Stoudemire and the New York Knicks agreed in principle to a five-year, $100 million contract, according to an ESPN.com report, making Stoudemire the first major free agent to switch teams. “No one [...]

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According to an ESPN.com report by Chris Broussard, New York Knicks president Donnie Walsh and head coach Mike D’Antoni “hope to meet with Amare Stoudemire” in Los Angeles soon after the clock strikes midnight Thursday, which marks the official start of free agency, to sway him toward signing with the Knicks. STAT certainly isn’t the [...]

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There will be games like this. Over the course of an 82-game season there will be games where you just don’t have it. You still don’t expect what transpired Tuesday night to occur, with a previously listless New York Knick team smacking around the Phoenix Suns, 126-99. There really aren’t any excuses for a game [...]

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Knicks 126, Suns 99 With the Suns and Knicks sporting extreme opposite records, the obvious angle to this game has to do with this season answering the question of whether Mike D’Antoni’s system made Steve Nash or whether he was D’Antoni’s system. It will likely be hard for Mike D to watch a Suns team that [...]

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