As health issues continue to mount for Derek Fisher’s New York Knicks, so too do tough defeats. As the Knicks rung in the New Year with two losses to the Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks, they did so without the services of Carmelo Anthony through the weekend. The New York star sat both contests with [...]
The 2014 calendar year has been unforgiving for Derek Fisher and the New York Knicks. After starting the season 2-1, the Knicks haven’t been able to dig out a rut as they’ve been riddled with injuries up and down the roster. New York closed the year and a three-game West Coast road trip with a [...]
Derek Fisher’s New York Knicks played another tight game with a championship contender on Thursday night, but once again, New York came up just short of a signature win. Despite the absence of star Carmelo Anthony, the Knicks hung tight with the Chicago Bulls from wire-to-wire, never trailed by more than 11 points, and even [...]
Through a trying start to the season, Derek Fisher has been a pillar of poise on the sideline, but after watching his New York Knicks stumble out of the gates at home against the Dallas Mavericks, the first-year coach showed some fire and frustration. The Knicks allowed the Mavs to make 11 of their first [...]
With troublesome stretches during a season, often will come turmoil in the locker room, but even through a rough beginning of the year, Derek Fisher’s New York Knicks have stayed together. That team dynamic was especially apparent Friday night, when New York rode a 10-game losing streak on the road to a rivalry contest against [...]
Derek Fisher’s New York Knicks took on a mountainous task of facing the defending NBA champion San Antonio Spurs without their No. 1 and No. 3 scorers Wednesday night. With Carmelo Anthony and J.R. Smith absent, Tim Hardaway Jr. took on a lead role and splashed 23 points out of the starting lineup, but a [...]
Derek Fisher and the New York Knicks went to New Orleans Tuesday night with one chief objective: Keep the Pelicans, the NBA’s top team on the inside, out of the painted area. But not much has gone according to plan for the Knicks over the course of their current losing streak and that trend continued [...]
The New York Knicks’s woes in close games continue, as they suffered their fourth and fifth straight single-digit losses over the weekend to the Charlotte Hornets and the Portland Trail Blazers. Now 14 of the team’s 18 defeats have come by single-digit margins, leaving coach Derek Fisher searching for reasons why his Knicks can’t seem [...]
Derek Fisher’s New York Knicks took the floor at Madison Square Garden ready to snap their five-game skid, and they had the Cleveland Cavaliers on the ropes at the famed arena—but they couldn’t land the knockout blow. The Knicks led by as many as seven in the final quarter, but the Cavs came back and [...]
It was another night and another narrow defeat for Derek Fisher and the New York Knicks. Fish’s squad played host to their crosstown rival, the Brooklyn Nets, at Madison Square Garden, and Nets escaped across the Hudson River with a 98-93 win, marking now 11 single-digit losses for New York, including four in its last [...]