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Dwight Howard has accomplished a lot in his short career. He is a five-time All-Star, three-time Defensive Player of the Year, the starting center on the 2008 U.S. Olympic team, and has averaged a double-double in each of his first seven seasons. Even with all of his personal success one accomplishment still eludes him- winning an NBA Championship.[...]

With Carmelo Anthony, Amar’e Stoudemire and Tyson Chandler for the most terrorizing frontcourt trio in the entire NBA, it’s easy to see why they’ve garnered so much attention.

However, it is fairly easy to quantify the kind of impact the three aforementioned players are going to have on the Knick’s chances of winning an NBA championship this upcoming season. Players like Iman [...]

In Carmelo Anthony’s press conference at Modell’s in Times Square, I was able to be to see him present his new Mission Skincare Power Grip product in person. Although he promoted the product, he also opened himself up to questions on anything and everything involving his experiences in the NBA and about basketball in general. This was when I was able to ask him [...]

Leave it to the team owners to spend the NBA lockout coming up with rules that are woefully misnamed. Scott Schroeder passed on a report from Marc Stein that a whole slew of collective bargaining agreement changes are on the table this weekend, along with those big-ticket items like “will we have a season?” and “who gets most of the money the league makes?” One was the “Melo Rule.” [...]

Although Carmelo Anthony had two offseason surgeries, he is now feeling no pain because of them and is likely to come back better than ever. Amar’e Stoudemire and the rest of the New York Knicks are also looking to improve and advance further into the playoffs in the upcoming season.
Being trounced by the Boston Celtics [...]

J.A. Adande of ESPN reports that Wilson Chandler has signed a one-year deal in China with the Zhejiang Golden Bulls of the Chinese Basketball Association. The terms of the deal beyond length aren’t known, though Adande reports that Chandler will be paid more than the $1.7 million reported in recent rumors but less than the $3.1 million Chandler would be eligible[...]

With two superstars in place and their first playoff berth in over a decade, there is finally a buzz infused back into the Madison Square Garden crowd again. Finally some hope, after fans constantly watched their team get annihilated game after game during the Isiah Thomas years.
Granted we still have the moronic James Dolan making [...]

Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Dwight Howard, Carmelo Anthony—the list is extensive and it seems to be growing by the day. The list that I am referring to would be the list of players considering playing overseas during the NBA lockout.

Notice I said “considering” and not “definitively” playing overseas. While there is certainly a list of players [...]

While the lockout has certainly become a reason for many teams to disperse, it seems as though the Knicks are sticking together which is certainly nice to see if they want to develop chemistry with their fairly new roster.

Although reports state that the New York Knicks working out as a team in IMG training facility in Florida will not commence until [...]

While Mike D’Antoni and the New York Knicks were one of the most formidable teams on offense last season, finishing with the second best offense in the NBA, a tremendous amount of work needs to be done on the other side of the floor if they expect to contend for an NBA title.

Since NBA players don’t have access to team facilities during the lockout, many teams…