Jared Jeffries News

As the NBA playoff season in it's final rounds and a champion being crowned in a few weeks, the offseason will begin.

The Knicks would have the chance to take an athletic small forward like Syracuse's Kris Joseph with their second-round pick in June's NBA Draft.

It's a quiet day, so I figure now's a good time to have this talk. Oh, no! Not like a "talk". Just a fun little discussion.

It's been nearly a week since the Knicks season ended, which seems to be the right amount of time to ponder over and hand out yearly grades for each Knick.

Amar'e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony need Jeremy Lin if they're going to be successful; or at least that's what Jared Jeffries thinks.

Free agency is still a few months away, but that won't stop every Knicks fan from mentally filling out the team's roster for next season.

The 2011-2012 New York Knicks weren't successful in the end, but no one can deny they were captivating from the first game until the last.

Good morning, friends. Welcome to day one of the 2012 offseason. It's vacation! Do you have your fruity drink? Well, what is that? A sneaker filled with chocolate syrup? I...guess that counts.

In what seemed to be the most likely outcome of the series, the Miami Heat comfortably moved into the second round closing out the Knicks in game 5. The Heat had been in cruise control through the first three games and were obliterating New York on the back of their at times impenetrable defense.

Good evening, sports drinks! How are your organs? Heart good? Spleen doing okay? Liver? I hope they're all squeaky clean and functioning with maximal efficiency.

Mike Woodson is moving closer to having the interim tag removed from his job title.

Miami Heat's LeBron James drives past New York Knicks' Baron Davis during the first half of Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, May 6, 2012, in New York.

Depending on whether or not Amar'e Stoudemire returns from lacerated left hand to play on Sunday, J.R. Smith could be getting his first postseason start for the Knicks.

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With Amar'e Stoudemire out, the Knicks ' interim coach had a big decision to make heading into Game 3 against the Heat at the Garden Thursday night, figuring out whom to insert in the starting lineup.

So where are the New York Knicks supposed to find enough offense to compete with the Miami Heat, and avoid setting a new NBA record for postseason futility? "I don't know.

There is one moment, one play, where a series can turn. And, so too, a career can turn on it.

The Knicks did some of the right things Monday night, but they did more things wrong.

Amar'e Stoudemire could be out for Game 3, having received stitches in his non-shooting hand after slamming it against a glass-encased fire extinguisher in the locker room.

All the excitement about the Knicks in March and April? Crushed by a 33-point defeat at the hands of the Heat Saturday.