Patrick Ewing: My only regret is leaving New York

Keerthika Uthayakumar: Detroit, Denver, New York, Boston & San Antonio have all lost at home this postseason. Home teams are 8-5 so far this playoffs, the most combined losses through the first 2 games of a postseason since 2020-21. — 4/21/2026 x.com

Mike Conti: NBA report: there were two officiating errors in the final ten seconds of last night’s Hawks-Knicks game, both benefiting the Knicks: KAT had an uncalled illegal screen on the Brunson 3pt FG to make it 107-106. Bridges had an uncalled lane violation on a McCollum missed FT. — 4/21/2026 x.com

Knicks Videos: Karl-Anthony Towns on not taking many shots in the 4th quarter of Game 2: "The opportunity just didn't come around to shoot it. At the end of the day, I trust everyone in this locker room to shoot the ball. The opportunity wasn't available for me in the 4th and it's fine" — 4/21/2026 x.com

The Knicks blew a 12-point lead to start the fourth quarter and fell to the Hawks 107-106 in Game 2 Monday night at Madison Square Garden. Now the series is tied 1-1 heading to Atlanta with a completely different tenor. Now the Hawks have life. Now, the worst memories around the Knicks have come flooding back. “It’s a game we should’ve won,” Josh Hart said. “In the playoffs, we can’t give away games.” — 4/21/2026 New York Post

Oh No He Didn't: Jonathan Kuminga on the Knicks fans going at CJ: "That got him going. I think he enjoyed that. The crowd shouldn't really do that or say that. I think that really got him going and got all of us going just the energy" — 4/21/2026 x.com

Brown prefers to sit both Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns for the starts of the second and fourth quarters rather than stagger them and have one on the court. The lineup he uses instead — with Miles McBride, Landry Shamet, Jordan Clarkson and Mitchell Robinson on the floor — struggled in the Knicks’ 107-106 Game 2 loss to the Hawks on Monday night at Madison Square Garden. “We’ve played that lineup quite a bit at the end of the season,” Brown said. “That lineup’s been pretty good. We weren’t good tonight and we turned the ball over a few too many times during that period. But we had opportunities where our starters were in, and we were up eight to 10 [points] and Atlanta closed it. So I wouldn’t just say that specific lineup caused it.” — 4/21/2026 New York Post

Awful Announcing: NBC took over five minutes to get to the Timberwolves-Nuggets game after the Hawks-Knicks game ended. The Wolves-Nuggets broadcast finally showed up with the game tied 5-5 and under 10 minutes remaining in the first quarter. — 4/21/2026 x.com

‪NBA Stat‬: Most points in first 2 playoff games as an Atlanta Hawk: 62 — Trae Young 58 — CJ McCollum Both did it against the New York Knicks.? #NBA — 4/21/2026 Bluesky

League sources — granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the coaching search — also say former NBA coach Michael Malone was contacted before he took the University of North Carolina job, as well as former Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau, who is no longer a candidate. And before he took control of the Blazers, Dundon spoke to former Toronto executive Masai Ujiri. “This isn’t Russian hockey players who don’t speak English,” a league source said. “In the NBA, everyone talks to everyone else. He says he didn’t make job offers … but it’s the narrative that is circulating … and it’s wrong. It’s bad business.” — 4/21/2026 New York Times

"Don't talk too loud," Knicks legend Charles Oakley recalls Patrick Ewing saying. "They got the whole building mic'd-up." Then, a source tells us + @WIRED , Garden security discussed tracking him across America. And that's just the start of our new collab on MSG's deep state. ?️? — 4/17/2026 x.com

Oakley was one of the few people willing to talk on the record. Years ago, he claims, he was attending a game at MSG with his friend Anthony McNair. His former Knicks teammate, Hall-of-Famer Patrick Ewing, was the associate head coach on the opposing squad, and sought out Oakley before tip-off. The pair embraced, chatted briefly, and made plans to talk at the game's conclusion. Oakley and McNair said they were soon approached by security, who informed Oakley he wasn't allowed to stray from his seat or venture into areas where fans are restricted. After the final buzzer, Oakley met Ewing alone near the visitors’ locker room. There, according to Oakley, Ewing warned him about talking because listening devices were everywhere. “Don't talk too loud,” Oakley said Ewing told him. “This place is supposed to be mic'd up.” — 4/17/2026 Wired.com

Jose Alvarado is featured in a new AT&T commercial alongside Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, Patrick Ewing and John Starks. It’s the first commercial for Alvarado. “That’s what New York can do for you: get you in commercials,” Alvarado said. “My agent called me and said, ‘We’ve got a special thing, do you want to be in a commercial?’ I said ‘Yeah,’ I didn’t know who was going to be in the commercial at first. But the commercial came out pretty dope.” — 3/20/2026 New York Post

It marked only the fifth instance in the shot clock era (since 1954-55) that a player scored at least 40 points in 26 or fewer minutes, according to ESPN Research. Wembanyama also grabbed 12 rebounds, joining Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing as the only players in NBA history to record a 40-point double-double in that few minutes. The Lakers were missing four regular starters after center Deandre Ayton was a late scratch because of knee soreness and stars Luka Doncic, LeBron James and Austin Reaves were ruled out earlier in the day. Marcus Smart also didn't play for L.A. — 2/11/2026 ESPN

“A free spirit and a person who loved his life,” recalled former Bulls coach Doug Collins, who was hired just before Jawann Oldham’s eventual trade to the New York Knicks to join fellow centers Bill Cartwright and Patrick Ewing. “Incredible, maybe the most balanced seven-foot guy I’ve ever seen,” recalled Cartwright, who later was traded to the Bulls to complete their championship puzzle. “He could do handstands at 7-1. His upper body as so strong; not muscular, but strong. Also probably one of the best big athletes I’ve seen the way he could run and jump. — 1/8/2026 NBA.com

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