Knicks kick off their Celtics chase with a Karl-Anthony Towns warning
NY Post
At Karl-Anthony Towns’ previous stop, the pervasive perception was that the Minnesota roster was created to topple one team, in particular.
“They’re built to beat us,” Nikola Jokic said in May, just before his Nuggets were eliminated by the Timberwolves.
Now, Towns has switched conferences, and so has the Larry O’Brien trophy — transferring from Denver to Boston.
That championship is the backdrop to the Knicks season opener Tuesday night in Boston, where Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and Co. will be presented their diamond-laced title rings.
“Good for those guys,” Mikal Bridges said. “But I’m ready to play. Nothing else.”
Conventional wisdom suggests the path to the next NBA Finals will go through the Celtics, and the Knicks, on paper, seem to match up well because of their top-flight wing defenders running counter to Tatum, Brown and Derrick White.
It feels right that on the day we celebrate Aaron Judge joining an elite pantheon of athlete — the multi-time winner of the Most Valuable Player award — that we take a walk back to the beginning, when Judge was little more than a 6-foot-7, 280-pound curiosity who mostly specialized in striking out.
The NFL has warned its players to take precautions against a “transnational crime ring” that is suspected of orchestrating a number of break-ins of athletes’ homes including Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce.
Joel Embiid isn’t pleased with details of the 76ers’ team meeting after Monday’s loss being leaked, telling reporters after Wednesday’s road loss to the Grizzlies, “whoever leaked that is a real piece of s–t.”
PHOENIX — Jalen Brunson didn’t want to comment on the NBA looking into his father’s promotion and contract as a potential salary-cap circumvention, but the point guard certainly had a message to anybody questioning Rick Brunson’s coaching credentials.
PHOENIX — Wednesday brought some cautiously optimistic updates for the Knicks frontcourt.
The Greatest Escape in franchise history was perpetrated by Glen Sather, when the general manager extricated himself and the Rangers from the final five years of Scott Gomez’s contract by moving the $7,357,143-per-year center to Montreal on June 30, 2009 after two years in New York.
The Yankees publicly are on the same page: Hal Steinbrenner, like Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone before him, said that issues with the club’s fundamentals did not hover over the team all season.
The first day of the rest of Daniel Jones’ dwindling time with the Giants arrived Wednesday, with Jones in the building, in the meetings, on the practice field (although not doing very much) and not at all part of the game plan for the next game, relegated to a non-participant role for the remainder of the season.
There will be a little extra magic for Knicks-Spurs on Christmas Day.
The quickest way for the Giants to climb out of quarterback hell is also the quickest way to extend their stay there for at least three more years.