Amar'e Stoudemire News

New York Knicks center Cole Aldrich battles for a rebound with Boston Celtics center Jared Sullinger during the first quarter BOSTON - As starting-center-for-the-night Cole Aldrich spoke to a phalanx of media following the Knicks' 116-92 rout of the Celtics, J.R. Smith shouted across the locker room, "Hey Cole Chandler.'

There are two things and really two things only to know about the New York Knicks' now-apparently-imminent hiring of Phil Jackson to head up basketball operations.

For years, fans of the New York Knicks were forced to fetishize a seemingly impossible hypothetical: If only James Dolan weren't around New York's bungling bluesman hasn't gone anywhere, of course.

Good evening! While all sorts of other shit goes on, the Knicks still have basketball games, and since they've won their last few, the games are actually important.

Once this disastrous season for the New York Knicks finally comes to an end, Carmelo Anthony is going to have the biggest decision of his career on his hands.

The New York Knicks have been playing much better of late and will try to keep the momentum going Wednesday night when they visit the Boston Celtics.

As the New York Knicks make a final playoff push, one thing has been evident about their improved play of late: Amar'e Stoudemire's resurgence.

Every franchise has its own set of dysfunctional underpinnings. The Knicks just happen to have enough to fill a highlight reel, with a profusion of ownership blunders, financial mismanagement, mismatched pieces, guns, whacky weed, suspensions, rampant underachievement, and so on.

Let's get the bad news that isn't really news at all out of the way first: Amar'e Stoudemire is not someone who can offer even a remotely passable performance on the defensive end when he is the center in an otherwise small lineup.

Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 28 points as the New York Knicks defeated Philadelphia 123-110 on Monday night, sending the 76ers to their 17th straight loss.

Michael Carter-Williams #1 of the Philadelphia 76ers drives against the New York Knicks during a game at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

As if the possibility of landing Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson in the front office weren't enough-and that possibility seemed to be getting stronger on Monday, with Jackson reportedly on the cusp of accepting the team's offer-there was also the fact that New York was entering its Monday contest with the lowly Philadelphia 76ers on a rare ... (more)

They ripped the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday, 107-97, before a sold-out crowd of 20,562 at Quicken Loans Arena.

It is now time to christen the New York Knicks' 2014 campaign an unmitigated disaster - the tenants of Madison Square Garden sit at 24-40 on the season, 10th in the NBA's beleaguered Eastern Conference and four games out of the playoffs.

The New York Knicks power forward has been feeling frisky since being reinserted into starting lineup...so frisky, in fact, that he now thinks he's was a Defensive Player of the Year, and Stoudemire has been pretty much the exact opposite of that throughout his career.

Carmelo Anthony filled the stat sheet with 26 points, seven rebounds, four assists, three steals and two blocks and the New York Knicks defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers, 107-97, on Saturday night.

Whatever bombs and barbs you can lob at the New York Knicks , you can't say they don't make things interesting.

Mar 8, 2014; Cleveland, OH, USA; Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving reacts in the fourth quarter against the New York Knicks at Quicken Loans Arena.

Jackson, who won two NBA titles with the Knicks as a player, has spent the last couple of years working to improve his health.

Carmelo Anthony scored 18 of his 29 points in the first quarter, sending the Knicks to a rare easy night in a 108-81 victory over the Utah Jazz tonight.