It was a gutsy call— a decision Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau stands by as his team travels to Miami for Games 3 and 4 of their second-round playoff against the Heat. It happened in the fourth quarter of the Knicks’ five-point, series-tying victory over the Heat in Game 2 at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday.. But as Barrett struggled to get stops defensively in the...
To the naked eye, the Knicks had a down season defensively. The rank marked the worst defensive rating the team has put forth in any of the three seasons Thibodeau has coached in New York. Entering his second-round playoff series against the Miami Heat, Thibodeau shrugged off new-age analytics as a reliable barometer for his team’ s defensive success.
MIAMI— Jimmy Butler returned and the Knicks just folded. Julius Randle, moving at ¾ speed through his abysmal 38 minutes, scored just 10 points on 4 of 15 shooting. The Knicks bench, an issue since the start of the series, was again ineffective, with Immanuel Quickley, Obi Toppin and Quentin Grimes combining to miss 12 of their 16 3- pointers.
The 15th annual Cinco de Mayo Peace and Unity Parade returned Saturday morning, a day before the Richmond festival. The parade started at 24th Street and Barrett Avenue in Richmond, and ended at St. Paul’s Church, in San Pablo. Hundreds of spectators, most of them holding and waving Mexican flags, watched the colorful event which […]
