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You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Knicks. I feel that the Kevin Knox pick might become a bust. He is too slow to guard …
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George Soros is directing more than $130 million in funds from his Open Society Foundations toward helping vulnerable communities globally amid the coronavirus pandemic. The funding package includes $37 million to support workers and their families across New York City, the U.S. epicenter of the outbreak and home to Open Society’s largest office, according to …
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Microsoft nixed a commercial featuring Marina Abramović after a bogus conspiracy theory surfaced that the performance artist was involved with Satanism. Abramovic had been featured in the advertisement for a Microsoft headset called the Hololens 2 — which allows the user to see digital imagery with the outside world. In the spot, the artist discussed …
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Sen. Cory Booker and girlfriend Rosario Dawson are choosing to spend the coronavirus pandemic apart. “We are so many thousands of miles apart. It’s so challenging,” Dawson told Entertainment Tonight recently, adding that she’s looking after her high-risk parents. “That was sort of the dedication during this quarantine to take care of [my dad], while …
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European coaching legend David Blatt won’t be retained in new Knicks president Leon Rose’s administration, according to an NBA source. Blatt, who led the Cavaliers to the NBA Finals in 2015, was brought in as a consultant on Dec. 18 by former Knicks president Steve Mills. Blatt and Mills were Princeton teammates in the 1970s. …
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The Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution was on its way to ratification — until Phyllis Schlafly went on the attack. Schlafly, a two-time loser for a Congressional seat, and staunch conservative, seized an opportunity to raise her political profile by decrying the bill as a threat to the sanctity of American families. In …
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Cosmetics tycoon Ronald Lauder has launched a new online portal to track the prevalence of coronavirus-fueled hate crimes. Lauder’s Anti-Semitism Accountability Project set up the website to collect reports of physical and online attacks on Asian-Americans, Jews and other groups whom bigots have falsely blamed for the pandemic. The billionaire former Estee Lauder chairman aims …
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Gavin Rossdale opened up about the trials and tribulations of having to coparent children of divorce amid coronavirus. The “Love Remains the Same” rocker, 54, shares three sons with ex-wife Gwen Stefani: Kingston, 13, Zuma, 11 and Apollo, 6. The kids have been traveling back and forth between Los Angeles, where Rossdale lives, and Oklahoma, …
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Deni Avdija is not like most potential NBA lottery picks. With the Israeli League season indefinitely suspended, Avdija, a 6-foot-9 forward for Maccabi Tel Aviv, was inducted into the Israeli Defense Forces on April 1. Avdija showed up with his parents and agent Matan Siman-tov at the Tel HaShomer army base to start the completion …
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You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Knicks. How can Leon Rose do what Steve Mills and others before him couldn’t do? No elite players want …