Carmelo Anthony News

Dec 1, 2013; New York, NY, USA; New York Knicks small forward Carmelo Anthony during the third quarter against the New Orleans Pelicans at Madison Square Garden.

Carmelo Anthony called the Knicks the "laughingstock" of the NBA on the eve of their crosstown meeting with the equally putrid Brooklyn Nets.

In almost any explanation of an NBA team's relative success or failure, a disproportionately large amount of credit is given to one thing: culture.

Start with this premise: What we have here is a jigsaw team, a collection of mismatched pieces that don't work together, and most of the time they look as though they are making it up as they go along.

Jeff Van Gundy mends some fences at the Garden, but he wouldn't even speak about the Knicks coaching job back when Mike D'Antoni has the gig.

Knicks star Carmelo Anthony can have New York. The Nuggets will settle for being better.

As the losses pile up for the New York Knicks, head coach Mike Woodson's seat keeps getting hotter and hotter to the point of you have to wonder exactly how many losses Woodson has left in him.

Good morning, P&T! Happy birthday, Trina! I aspire to post about some actual basketball things today, but first: The air is dank with talk of BLOW-UPS and DUST-UPS and HOT SEATS and RUN-INS and...SHAPE-UPS and LOVE-INS and all sorts of scandalous two-word phrases from the last few days.

The Knicks, now a horrible 3-13, suffered as heartbreaking a loss as they have experienced all season, New Orleans played most of the game without its best player, Anthony Davis, who left with 1:33 remaining in the first quarter after breaking a bone in his left hand.

Few franchises in professional sports have eschewed patience and prudence for glitz and quick fixes more routinely than the New York Knicks .

Coming off another home loss to the New Orleans Pelicans last night, the New York Knicks are now currently riding a nine game losing streak.

When Kenyon Martin hit a jumper with 4:30 to play, the Knicks were still in it. New York then missed its next six shots and scored only two points the rest of the night.

"I think this team is jelling together better than any other team I've been on," said Aldridge, who had 18 points and 14 rebounds for Portland in the team's 11th straight victory, a 102-91 win over the slumping New York Knicks on Monday night.

Tempers continue to flare as the New York Knicks discover losing isn't all peaches, cream and 112 sing-a-longs .

Thursday is the one day of the week when the NBA's frantic nationwide schedule slows and all eyes turn to a doubleheader showcase on TNT.

Watched Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks find a way to lose on Friday night to the Denver Nuggets.

Timofey Mozgov, who once was a Knick, had the NBA's best block over the weekend, thwarting this Rudy Gay dunk attempt.

Mike Woodson agrees with Carmelo Anthony that the Knicks miss the leadership of departed veterans Jason Kidd, Rasheed Wallace and Kurt Thomas "in the locker room and on the floor."

Ryan Anderson made seven 3-pointers and scored 31 points, and the New Orleans Pelicans overcame the loss of Anthony Davis to a broken left hand to beat the New York Knicks 103-99 on Sunday night.

Anderson made seven 3-pointers and scored 31 points, and the New Orleans Pelicans overcame Davis' loss to a broken left hand to hand the Knicks their ninth straight loss, 103-99 on Sunday night.