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J.R. Smith has received an important endorsement to return to the Knicks next season, from longtime teammate Carmelo Anthony .

Chris Copeland, a training-camp long shot who spent part of the season lugging around a pink knapsack as part of rookie hazing, may turn into a very attractive piece on the free-agent market.

Even though, after finding Posting and Toasting this year and riding through this playoffs with you, I have the lowest regard for the basketball acumen of the denizens of this message board, I am going to post this here to have this completely valid and pretty widely held point of view stated out loud.

He benched Pablo Prigioni, the player with the single best per-minute plus-minus of anyone on the roster.

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Sure, there are things that can be nit-picked, like the stubborn use of Jason Kidd, even though he hasn't scored a point in what seems like a month.

That's not how coach Mike Woodson intended to spend Sunday afternoon following an abysmal Game 3 performance that left New York in a 2-1 hole and in a precarious position heading into Tuesday night's game at Indiana.

With J.R. Smith severely under the weather and not shooting the ball very well the past six games, the New York Knicks need to find some scoring in other areas.

The High Point softball team still has titles to defend this season. But the Hunterdon Warren Sussex tournament championship is no longer one of them.

The Knicks have been banged around under the glass by the bigger and more physical Pacers' frontline.

My word, that was awful. Had the Knicks fallen like that in, say, January, we'd get grumpy, but chalk it up to a long season and move on.

Completely no effort, got outhustled for rebounds, zero offensive contributions, just abused by roy hibbert and looked like he had no reason to be in that game.

Ian Begley of ESPN New York is reporting that New York Knicks sixth man J.R. Smith has a fever of 102, but is still listed as questionable and could very well play in Game 3 against the Indiana Pacers tonight.

It honestly pains me to write this. I sat down and started today's column a bunch of different ways, but this was the only approach.

Once the NBA's scoring leader got in a rhythm, not even one of the league's best defenses could knock him out of it.

Mike Woodson talks to Carmelo Anthony during the first half of a game against the Toronto Raptors .

The Knicks are hoping that Amar'e Stoudemire provides reinforcements for Saturday's Game 3 in Indiana, but before they even think about that contest, they need help for tonight's Game 2 at home.

The Miami Heat star took 120 of 121 first-place votes in this year's balloting, giving him the award for the fourth time.

The Oklahoma City Thunder opened their semi-final series with the Memphis Grizzlies in the Western Conference with a nervy 93-91 win in front of their own fans on Sunday night.

Carmelo Anthony's sore left shoulder has been a cause for concern, but he made it clear that it would take a lot more than that to keep him out of Sunday's game.