Amar'e Stoudemire News

Legacies are fickle beasts in the NBA , and Carmelo Anthony 's will be shaped rather significantly by what he chooses to do this summer.

He described the stench of this franchise so comprehensively during a 2012 interview on HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel , you would swear the Zen Master had doused himself in James Dolan's cologne.

Three days before Jackson is expected to be named the franchise's new president, Carmelo Anthony and the Knicks took care of the lowly Milwaukee Bucks, 115-94, in a Saturday matinee at Madison Square Garden.

Feb 22, 2014; Atlanta, GA, USA; New York Knicks small forward Carmelo Anthony celebrates after shooting a three in the second half against the Atlanta Hawks at Philips Arena.

Ultimately Thomas Wolfe will be proven right, you can't go home again. Not even Phil Jackson.

Depending on who is doing the talking, Phil Jackson took the job to be president - and perhaps part owner - of the New York Knicks on Saturday, Monday or not yet.

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.