Tag: New York Knicks

CJ McCollum didn’t get his wish, but he backtracked a bit. 

Knicks two-way center Trey Jemison III and his fiancée Alex Jean Glover are a sports power couple, which is why she can’t support him in person during New York’s first-round playoff series against the Hawks.

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During the second quarter of the Knicks’ 113-102 Game 1 win over the Hawks on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, McCollum received a technical for kicking Brunson in the midsection while taking a jump shot.

It was as if a switch had flipped coming out of halftime in Game 1, as the Knicks neutralized a Hawks strategy that was hurting them more than anything else.

The Knicks need to keep taking care of business as they did in Game 1.

The Knicks need to keep taking care of business as they did in Game 1.

But Johnson didn’t get past his third dribble. He stripped him clean — his third steal of Saturday’s 113-102 Knicks victory — and it became the best example of an important Game 1 development.

But Johnson didn’t get past his third dribble. He stripped him clean — his third steal of Saturday’s 113-102 Knicks victory — and it became the best example of an important Game 1 development.

CJ McCollum delivered a low blow to Jalen Brunson on the court at Madison Square Garden. He then delivered another one after the game.

It was only a matter of time.

Jalen Brunson was doing Jalen Brunson things for the first 12 minutes. But then the rest of the game happened.

There’s never been a Knick quite like him, and Karl-Anthony Towns seemed like he was ready to remind everyone of that Saturday night at MSG.

It was the key to this 113-102 victory, the Knicks ramping up their defensive intensity and shutting down Atlanta after halftime.

The Knicks looked like a team on a mission on Saturday at Madison Square Garden.

The Knicks always have had a knack for making these things extra excruciating.

One of New York’s emerging sports stars was taking in a different playoff atmosphere on Saturday.

A three-time NBA champion foresees a Knicks implosion after hearing “rumblings” of a fractured team. 

We want colorful. We want outspoken. We want confident. We want swagger. We want over-the-top far more than under-the-radar. And all of that is perfectly lovely. But there is always a flip side to that: You’d better deliver. You’d better be right.

For the second year in a row, the Knicks enter the playoffs as the No. 3 seed in the East.