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Anthony And Wallace Out For Knicks, Copeland Starts
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Carmelo Anthony will miss tonight’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers due to a sprained left ankle. Anthony suffered the injury in the Knicks’ Thursday night victory over the...
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Hartnett: Driven Melo Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving
By Sean Hartnett » More Columns Carmelo Anthony took it to another level in the fourth quarter and delivered an early Christmas present to the home crowd at Madison Square Garden. Anthony energized the...
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Hartnett: Melo Versus Bryant Has The Makings Of A Christmas Day Classic
By Sean Hartnett » More Columns NBA fans on both coasts are in for a Christmas Day treat when the New York Knicks take the court at Staples Center to battle the reinvigorated Los Angeles Lakers at 3...
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Big Day Of Christmas Day Action Around The NBA
LOS ANGELES (CBSNewYork/AP) - Christmas Day brings a feast of exciting NBA action. The NBA’s hottest team will be playing at home in Los Angeles, and it’s the Clippers, not the Lakers. There’s a finals...
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Lakers Get Revenge On Knicks In Christmas Showdown
LOS ANGELES (CBSNewYork/AP) — The much-anticipated Christmas Day showdown between Kobe Bryant’s Los Angeles Lakers and Carmelo Anthony’s New York Knicks lived up to its billing. Bryant engineered a...
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Felton’s Hand Goes From Bad To Worse; Knicks’ Amar’e ‘Making Progress’
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The Knicks may have to play Wednesday night’s game in Phoenix without point guard Raymond Felton. Already battling a bone bruise, Felton’s shooting hand was further banged-up in...
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Lichtenstein: Brooks’ Kobe-Esque Performance Begs For An Encore
By Steve Lichtenstein » More Columns There are times when I watch sophomore Brooklyn guard MarShon Brooks and I think back to a young Kobe Bryant. To reiterate an important caveat I wrote in the...
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Dwightmare Redux? Reports Differ On Kobe-Howard Altercation In LA
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Where Dwight Howard goes, drama follows. And yes, there’s still talk of the controversial center taking his baggage to Brooklyn. Howard and fellow Lakers star Kobe Bryant “got...
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Report: Nets GM Billy King Is Looking To Trade For Dwight Howard
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Remember those Dwight Howard-to-the-Nets rumors? You didn’t think those would go away forever, did you? Good, because after a long hiatus they’ve resurfaced. According to Jarrod...
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Reports: Nets Not Pursuing Trade For Lakers’ Dwight Howard
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Nets fans, snap out of that recurring Dwightmare. Brooklyn has “not engaged in trade talks” for Dwight Howard despite a report saying general manager Billy King was on the...
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Forbes: Knicks Surpass Lakers As Most Valuable Team In NBA; Nets Rank Ninth
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The New York Knicks have surpassed the Los Angeles Lakers as the most valuable team in the NBA, according to Forbes’ annual study. Boosted by renovations to Madison Square...
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Lakers, Minus Their Bigs, Ride Explosive Kobe, Wear Down Nets Late
NEW YORK (AP) — Kobe Bryant would have liked to celebrate more, maybe gloat about that highlight-reel dunk, but there were bigger concerns. Dwight Howard couldn’t start and Pau Gasol couldn’t finish....
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Lichtenstein: Nets’ Stinker A Team Effort; Can P.J. Count On Anyone?
By Steve Lichtenstein » More Columns All streaks are supposed to end at some point, so I’m not supposed to get too worked up over the Nets’ disappointing 92-83 loss to the depleted Lakers at the...
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Jerry Buss, Longtime Los Angeles Lakers Owner, Dies Of Kidney Failure
LOS ANGELES (CBSNewYork/AP) — Los Angeles Lakers’ owner Jerry Buss has died at age 79. Spokesman Bob Steiner says Buss died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He’d been...
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Chris Sheridan To Joe & Evan: There Is ’50-50 Chance’ Lakers Trade D12 To Nets
NEW YORK (WFAN) – With the NBA Trade Deadline less than 48 hours away — teams have until Thursday at 3:00 p.m. to make a deal — general managers are scrambling to improve their teams for the second...
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J.R. Smith Scores 24, Leads Knicks In 113-84 Rout Of Utah
NEW YORK (AP) – J.R. Smith scored 24 points and the New York Knicks shook off the absence of Carmelo Anthony and the shock of Amare Stoudemire needing more knee surgery to rout the slumping Utah Jazz...
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Kobe Bryant On Mike Rice: ‘I Would’ve Smacked The Hell Out Of Him’
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Mike Rice was fired last week after a video of the Rutgers coach behaving very, very badly at practice became public. In the video, Rice was seen verbally and physically abusing...
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Kallas: Kobe Bryant Simply Doesn’t Get It, And He Showed That On Sunday
By Steve Kallas » More Columns By now you’ve probably seen or heard some of the tweets sent out by Kobe Bryant during Sunday’s Lakers loss in Game 1 against San Antonio. Here’s just a brief sample:...
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Eddie Jordan Expected To Be Introduced As Rutgers Coach Tuesday
NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Rutgers’ board of governors will meet Tuesday to sign off on a contract that will allow Los Angeles Lakers assistant Eddie Jordan to take over the Scarlet Knights’...
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Tiger Tops Forbes’ List Of Highest-Paid Athletes; A-Rod Comes In At No. 18
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Tiger Woods is back on top of Forbes’ list of highest-paid athletes. The star golfer spent 11 straight years at No. 1 on the magazine’s list before falling to third in 2012....
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