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Greg Anthony spoke more like an analyst than a father. He was blunt, critical and honest. He didn’t hold back when asked about his son Cole’s freshman season at North Carolina. “I thought he had a horrible year. I thought he was really bad,” the former NBA point guard said on a Zoom call on …
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Kenny Payne, the Knicks’ new assistant coach, already will reunite with two former Kentucky studs in Kevin Knox and Julius Randle. From the sound of it, Payne, John Calipari’s longtime Kentucky assistant, wouldn’t mind taking on a third Kentucky scorer, whom he just coached last season in Lexington. In an interview conducted with The Post …
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2020 is normal in one regard: the NBA playoffs will not include the Knicks. As long as the proposed 22-team restart format to the NBA season gets approved by the Board of Governors as expected on Thursday, the Knicks’ season is over. The Post previously reported this as a very likely scenario. Instead, all the …
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The highlight of the annual NBA Draft Combine in Chicago is team executives sitting down with lottery candidates for live interviews at the historic Hilton Hotel on Michigan Avenue. The combine scheduled for last week was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Also canceled was Iowa State point guard Tyrese Haliburton’s chances of making a …
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Knicks president Leon Rose will add a solid personnel man in longtime Utah Jazz scout Walt Perrin, who will become assistant GM/college scouting to Scott Perry. The title was previously held by Gerald Madkins, whose future with the organization is in danger. Madkins’ contract expires in August. For 19 years, Perrin has been a key …
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LaVar Ball now has said for a second time he’d like his son, LaMelo Ball, to wind up a Knick. On the “Load Management” podcast Wednesday, Ball also stated he’s certain his youngest son will be considered for the No. 1 pick in the 2020 NBA Draft. Some league sources believe the Ball camp will …
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With the May 19 NBA draft lottery postponed, the draft order won’t be determined until June at the earliest. Following last year’s smoothing of the lottery odds, the amount of shuffling after the ping-pong balls roll is considerable. League sources are hearing about a late August/early September draft. Some agents are being told there could …
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Could there be an RJ-RJ backcourt at the Garden next season? According to a source, RJ Hampton, who skipped college to play in New Zealand, is another point-guard-type under consideration by the Knicks if they select between sixth and 10th in the draft currently slated for June 25. NBA insiders believe the speedy 6-foot-5, 19-year-old …
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Chris Brickley, Cole Anthony’s trainer since he was 16, was delighted by the point guard’s quarantine request. The Manhattan product asked Brickley if they could scour tape of his underachieving freshman season at North Carolina via Zoom. It was a perfect learning tool during the coronavirus pandemic preventing them from live training. “We watched the …
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The Knicks need a point guard and there is a highly rated one who lives just a few subway stops from the Garden. It could be a perfect match, one that Cole Anthony — the son of former Knicks guard Greg Anthony — would welcome. “It would be pretty cool,” the Upper West Side native …