Dunleavy Scores 36 As Indiana Outpaces New York
Knicks 123, Pacers 132
 
Mike Dunleavy tied a career high with 36 points, and the Indiana Pacers beat New York 132-123 on Wednesday night. The Knicks allowed their highest point total of the season and tied a franchise record with 59 losses. It was new Knicks president Donnie Walsh's first game in Indiana since stepping down as Pacers CEO last month. Walsh didn't like what he saw, at times shaking his head in disgust while watching from the crowd. Jamal Crawford, who led New York with 25 points, said the season has been disappointing.

 
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“If I didn’t play the way how I played, I wouldn’t have gotten no max contract,” he said. “They can talk about whatever they wanna talk about me, because I got maxed. I’m a max player. Don’t get mad at me, because I’m telling you what’s real. One plus one is two, all day long, and it’s never gonna change. And that’s factorial.”
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Blogs
New York Post Knicks Blog
D'Antoni a big hit
5/13/2008 7:13:00 PM: Marc Berman
Today’s press conference didn’t start out smoothly, with Donnie Walsh mispronouncing his new coach’s name, calling him “D’Antonio.’’ But it got better and better and [...]
Father Knickerbocker
Will Marbury Play For D’Antoni’s Knicks?
5/13/2008 6:00:00 PM: Alex Benesowitz
Stephon Marbury might but should not play for the New York Knicks again. Mr. Walsh is in charge but (in an interview on WFAN with Mike and the Mad Dog) Walsh said that [...]

Who Is More Valuable Now?
5/13/2008 5:45:00 PM: Alex Benesowitz
Knicks Knacks
A fine how do you do
5/13/2008 2:20:00 PM: Mike Dougherty
For all of the world traveling, there’s still a lot of West Virginia in the way Mike D’Antoni speaks. He even says daggone. And the personality made the [...]

It’s a big deal
5/13/2008 9:25:00 AM: Mike Dougherty
On the Knicks Beat
Was NY actually D'Antoni's first choice?
5/13/2008 7:58:00 AM: Alan Hahn
The way Reinsdorf so candidly tells it, the Bulls actually did want D'Antoni. But D'Antoni, after two discussions with the Bulls, including a two hour and 15 minute [...]
Knicks Knacks
Lights, cameras, questions
5/12/2008 10:00:00 PM: Mike Dougherty
We finally got word a few minutes ago that Mike D’Antoni will be introduced to New York tomorrow during a 1 p.m. press conference at Madison Square Garden. They [...]
On the Knicks Beat
D'Antoni D'ay arrives
5/12/2008 9:44:00 PM: Alan Hahn
The Knicks just announced a press conference for tomorrow at 1 p.m. to introduce Mike D'Antoni has the head coach of the Knicks.
Father Knickerbocker
Buyer Beware: Breaking Down the D’Antoni Signing
5/12/2008 5:39:00 PM: Michael Warren
Let me start off by saying this: when you look at the Knicks and the moves they make, you cannot look at them by analyzing the effect they will have on the present. [...]
Knicks Knacks
D’Antoni has arrived
5/12/2008 10:38:00 AM: Mike Dougherty
Any minute now, Mike D’Antoni is going to find out how far $1 million goes in the Westchester County housing market. We’re not in Phoenix anymore, [...]
On the Knicks Beat
The King of New York
5/12/2008 9:36:00 AM: Alan Hahn
They don't want to read about this in Cleveland, but just about every step Donnie Walsh will take between now and the Summer of LeBron (2010) will be all about getting [...]
KnickerBlogger.net
Ah… The Bittersweet Taste of Ambivalence
5/12/2008 6:31:00 AM: David Crockett
As you are no doubt aware by now, the Knicks have hired former Phoenix Suns head coach Mike D’Antoni to be their new head coach (4 years/$6 million per). Opinions [...]
Knicks Knacks
Let’s be fair
5/11/2008 8:42:00 PM: Mike Dougherty
I realize he wasn’t the first name on a lot of lists for obvious reasons, but I cannot believe some of the comments about Mike D’Antoni on the blogs. How [...]
New York Post Knicks Blog
Kudos to Donnie
5/11/2008 9:17:00 AM: Marc Berman
If the Knicks weren't such a disaster, such a mess, such a laughingstock, maybe Mark Jackson could've been the guy here. But to ask someone with no coaching experience [...]
Father Knickerbocker
Plausible Deniability
5/10/2008 10:45:00 PM: Matt Agne
Make Sure to read BOTH Mike’s and Alex’s articles! They beat me to the post because I was at work all day but I just got home and I’m going to post my article anyway. [...]


Featured Articles
Chandler Could Fill Knicks' Hole At The Three
11/20/2007 12:58:00 PM: Martin Johnson
While a lot of attention has been focused on the Knicks' soap operas at the point guard, head coach, and chairman positions, the team's worst on-court problem is at small forward. The team is getting killed there, and coach and team president (and official lightning rod for criticism) Isiah Thomas is ignoring a potential in-house solution.
Knicks Should Rethink Their Defensive Scheme
11/13/2007 12:03:00 PM: Martin Johnson
The Knicks' 75–72 loss to the Miami Heat on Sunday night is one of those really bad losses that tend to be either written off as a fluke or overanalyzed. The appropriate reaction is somewhere in the middle. It's easy to see the loss as a fluke. Forward Zack Randolph missed the game due to the death of his grandmother, and he has been the heart of the Knicks' offense this season, averaging 20.3 points and 13.5 rebounds a game. Also, guard Nate Robinson has been in uniform, but his play has become a nonfactor since a hamstring injury knocked him out of last Sunday's home opener against Minnesota. And lastly, down the stretch in the fourth quarter when the Knicks needed a perimeter player other than starting guards Stephon Marbury and Jamal Crawford to take a shot, starting small forward Quentin Richardson was unavailable having hyper-extended his right elbow diving for a loose ball. As a result, the Knicks went scoreless during the final 2:30 of the loss.
Combative Dolan Shameless
10/4/2007 8:53:00 AM: Wallace Matthews
Jim Dolan fired Larry Brown and replaced him with Isiah Thomas, who for the previous three years served as president of basketball operations for the Knicks. Talking tough, Dolan said Isiah would be given one year to turn the team around, or else.
The Garden Needs A Warning Label
10/3/2007 12:13:00 PM: Selena Roberts
As the legend goes, it was years ago, aboard a sleek family yacht, when Charles F. Dolan asked his executive crewmates an earnest question: What about Jim? His son needed an occupation. Something to divert his rock-star ambitions. Something to focus him. So he decided to give James L. Dolan what amounted to a skate key to Madison Square Garden, a business irrelevant to the Cable Daddy’s vast bottom line, a playground where his son could do no harm.
Don't Put Willie In Isiah's League
10/3/2007 8:55:00 AM: Ian O'Conner
Willie Randolph was in trouble of losing his job, and Isiah Thomas was not. One is a real human being who will never embarrass the Mets.

5/13/2008
NY Post 
Dash For Nash
By Marc Berman
Mike D'Antoni no longer has Steve Nash to run his "Seven Seconds or Less" frenetic offense. But in one week, at the NBA Draft Lottery, the new Knicks coach will find out if he has someone whom he...

Herb Might Survive
By Marc Berman
Herb Williams, the ultimate survivor, probably will survive another coaching change. A source told The Post Mike D'Antoni likely will keep Williams on his assistant staff. D'Antoni may have...

Walsh Rolling Dice With Wrong General
By Peter Vecsey
AT the beginning of World War II, Gen. George Catlett Marshall plucked a colonel (light bird?) from the Japan conflict in the Philippines and appointed Dwight D. Eisenhower European supreme...

Daily News 
Knicks Officially Start New Era With Mike D'antoni On Tuesday
By Frank Isola
Late Monday night, Mike D'Antoni officially signed the contract that will pay him $24 million over four years. The Knicks will introduce D'Antoni as the 24th coach in club history at a press...

Marbury First To Go
By Mitch Lawrence
One of the first plays Mike D'Antoni is expected to draw up as the Knicks' new coach is for Stephon Marbury to run up the Garden floor and out the door back to Phoenix to rejoin the Suns for...

D'antoni Meets Full-Court Press
By Bob Raissman
If Joe Girardi thought his honeymoon with the media was short, he should contrast it to Mike D'Antoni's. Before he even put pen to contract, the new Knicks' coach was headed for divorce court.

NY Times 
Want To Play For D’antoni? Start Running
By Howard Beck
Having been on the wrong end of the Suns’ warp-speed attack, the Knicks have been granted the chance to adopt it if their lungs and legs can handle the burden.

Newsday 
Could Be Big Opportunity For Little Nate
By Alan Hahn
While most people are focusing on the players who don't fit Mike D'Antoni's coaching style, Quentin Richardson had one come to mind who he thinks will benefit greatly from the arrival of the...

Deja Vu For D'antoni: No Steph Can Be Big Step
By Shaun Powell
They were together 25 days, the head coach and point guard, stuck on a bad team that was headed for a bad season.

Will D'antoni's Assistants Follow Him To Ny?
By Alan Hahn
Phoenix Suns executive Steve Kerr might not have been totally enamored with Mike D'Antoni's resistance to a more defensive-minded approach to his up-tempo system, but Kerr isn't quite ready to...

The Journal News 
D'antoni To Be Introduced Today As New Knicks Coach
By Mike Dougherty
After meeting with Knicks president Donnie Walsh yesterday to finalize the details, Mike D'Antoni signed a contract and will be officially introduced as the 24th head coach in franchise history...

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