Featured, Game Coverage, Game Recaps Geoff Rasmussen Featured, Game Coverage, Game Recaps Geoff Rasmussen

Jazz 108, Knicks 93: They almost had it

The Knicks, led by the efforts of their young contingent of players, staged a comeback against the Jazz on Sunday night. New York had a chance to do things like a normal team for once… instead, Tom Thibodeau once again reverted to his comfort zone, and the Knicks lost a laugher behind one of Julius Randle’s worst games of the season.

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Featured, Patreon preview Matthew Miranda Featured, Patreon preview Matthew Miranda

What the 2014 Bobcats and 2015 Bucks can teach the 2022 Knicks

A year after a surprising No. 4 seed and playoff appearance, the Knicks find themselves staring down the draft lottery again. What lessons can the Knicks take from the Bucks and the Hornets, two teams that faced the same situation in the last 10 years?

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Featured, Patreon preview Jack Huntley Featured, Patreon preview Jack Huntley

Welcome to Barrettopia: The Beacons of 9-God are lit

RJ Barrett’s emergence since the calendar turned over to 2022 has been nothing short of spectacular. Has he established himself as the primary building block on the Knicks just a year after Julius Randle seemed to do the same?

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Featured, Top 75 Knicks Matthew Miranda Featured, Top 75 Knicks Matthew Miranda

The Top 75 Knicks ever: 75-66

Over the next few months, The Strickland will be unveiling its Top 75 New York Knicks of All Time, a compilation of votes and rankings by several staff writers. We’ll unveil the list in ascending groups of 10, culminating with the top five at the end. If you learn anything or have memories to contribute, please do so in the comments! There’s far less material to draw from on some of the older all-time Knicks; anything you can do to paint them more fully is dope.

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Featured Benjy Ritholtz Featured Benjy Ritholtz

“The ship be sinking” again for the Knicks

Forty years ago, the Knicks found themselves in an incredibly similar scenario to their current state of affairs — a year past overachieving, with a renowned coach at the helm, losing games and looking for answers. What can the current Knicks learn from the Knicks of old?

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Featured, Patreon preview Jack Huntley Featured, Patreon preview Jack Huntley

On Tom Thibodeau’s bizarre refusal to read the room

Though the Knicks are nearly 10 games under .500 coming out of the All-Star break, it seems things will be par for the course for the team and coach Tom Thibodeau. So how about setting a few rules that conform to Thibs’ sensibilities?

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