It’s perfect time for Knicks fans to dream of elusive NBA title
NY Post
This is the easy time. This is the fun time. For NBA fans, the latter half of July is a time to check in on the summer league games from Vegas, a time to speculate about final pieces to training-camp rosters, to cue up your favorite games from the previous year on YouTube, and to allow the baseball portion of your sporting soul to experience all the stress.
For Knicks fans, it means taking an early peek at Cam Payne’s impossible-to-duplicate jumper — and maybe remembering how often it improbably went in late in that series with the Sixers last year. It means daily progress reports on Tyler Kolek — it’s a matter of time before we call him “Jalen Junior” around here — and Pacome Dadiet.
Sure: it meant reading Stef Bondy’s dispatch in Wednesday’s Post about Isaiah Hartenstein legit pondering the possibility of taking a pay cut to stay a Knick, and maybe wanting to curse all things Oklahoman …
(Try this:
“Oooooooh!-klahoma …
“Where the Thunder scooped up Hartenstein
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.