NEW YORK –It was early during the 2006-07 season, and the New York Knicks were an absolute horror.  Larry Brown, after all of one year, was eradicated, and Isiah Thomas, the team’s general manager, was given the added responsibility of head coach.
Don’t drop the ball, James Dolan warned.
Thomas, the Hall-of-Fame guard who -once upon a [...]

More than twenty years ago, John Feinstein wrote A Season on the Brink, which told the saga of Bob Knight, the legendary basketball coach at Indiana University.
In Open Court: A Year With the New York Knicks, John J. Buro recounts one particular forgettable season in the life of Isiah Thomas -Knight’s point guard on the [...]

NEW YORK – As absurd as it would have sounded just a few weeks ago, it now makes total sense.
The Knicks were better off last season.
It was easy to be a Knick in 2008-09. No one expected any major improvements and when something went wrong, there was always the newly departed Isiah Thomas to blame. [...]

Of course the ultimate goal for a team is to make the playoffs, regardless of what sport you’re in and even if the team is going through a rebuilding year. For the New York Knicks, getting into the postseason in Year One of the new regime would be a feather in the caps of team [...]

One by one, all the busts that former head honcho Isiah Thomas brought to Broadway are being sent packing. The latest to go is perhaps the most villainous and the face of the franchise’s recent failures, and no one was shedding a tear when Stephon Marbury was finally given the heave-ho.
The most ironic part of [...]

NEW YORK – Welcome to the Stephon Marbury-less Era. With the controversial point guard gone, the Knicks hosted the Orlando Magic at the Garden last night. What looked as if it was going to be an easy win for the Magic, turned out to be quite the opposite. For most of the game, the Knicks [...]

NEW YORK – If there was ever a thought that these new New York Knicks would jump out to a roaring start of their 2008-09 season under new coach Mike D’Antoni, those flights of fancy have now disappeared. They spent another 48 minutes tonight at home against the Milwaukee Bucks in a rudder-less, unenergetic, passion-free [...]

NEW YORK – If there were any questions about who is in charge of the Knicks, they quickly answered last night.
All you would have to do is look at the end of the bench to see Eddie Curry and Stephon Marbury – the poster boys of the Isiah Thomas regime – watching the game, but [...]

NEW YORK – Is it possible the New York Knickerbockers have transformed themselves into a team to be reckoned-with this season? Let’s not get too crazy over one game but tonight, at Madison Square Garden in the season-opener, this team of mostly youngsters and young veterans got off to a great start as they opened [...]

NEW YORK – The Knicks reverted back to their old ways from the Isiah Thomas era tonight in an ugly 101-90 loss to the defending champion Boston Celtics at the Garden. Despite the deceiving final 11 point margin of difference, it was the Celtics who completely dominated the game by every measure.
The Celtics led by [...]