Barbara Barker
Sports Columnist, Writer and Reporter at Newsday
Newsday sports columnist, features writer and queen of NY NBA writers. Been around so long I covered Knicks when they were really good and you were 10.
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3 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Barbara Barker
Entering her senior year at Friends Academy, Morgan Taylor had big dreams. As a junior in 2007, Taylor had helped lead Friends to its first Long Island Class C girls basketball championship , and the team was projected to have another big year. As fate would have it, early in that senior year, she tore the patella tendon in her knee. “It was tough mentally,” Taylor recalled of the injury that ended her basketball playing career.
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3 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Barbara Barker
Tom Thibodeau didn’t deserve this. The Knicks coach didn’t deserve to get fired three days after the team finished their best season in a quarter century. He didn’t deserve to have the rug yanked from underneath him, after changing the culture and direction of a franchise that had been mired in dysfunction and failure for most of this century. Thibodeau didn’t deserve to go out this way, but he is. The Knicks better know what they are doing. I’m sure the Knicks have a plan.
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3 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Barbara Barker
The list is long, painfully long. It includes Hall of Fame coaches like Lenny Wilkens and Larry Brown. It includes former players with championship rings like Isiah Thomas and Derek Fisher, and former Knicks players like Mike Woodson and Herb Williams. The one thing the list of Knicks coaches since Dec. 2001 doesn’t include? A coach with a better playoff record than Tom Thibodeau.
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3 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Barbara Barker
INDIANAPOLISNo, it was not to be. There will be no Game 7 at Madison Square Garden. There will be no more nights sitting on pins and needles wondering if the Knicks can pull this thing out. The Knicks are going home now with no more basketball to play, their crazy and mesmerizing season having ended with a disappointing dud in Indiana. It will be the Pacers who will be playing for an NBA championship after defeating the Knicks, 125-108, to win the Eastern Conference finals in six games.
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3 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Barbara Barker
INDIANAPOLIS It’s win or go home. Two more times. Can you think of any bigger pressure than that heading into a playoff game? OK, there is one player on the Knicks roster who can. Mitchell Robinson is the one player who knows that there is something much more stressful in basketball than having to beat the Indiana Pacers in two more games in order to advance to the NBA Finals. Try the stress of being a rookie on a 17-win Knicks team.
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Thibs takes out a full page ad in today’s New York Times to thank fans, players and his coaching staff. Not mentioned? Knicks management. Classiest way to give the middle finger that I’ve ever seen. https://t.co/ehFZFn2N7x
RT @TheFrankIsola: If the Pacers go on to win this series the Knicks are gonna fire Mark Daigneault.
RT @ClaireMPLS: they asked the nyc mayoral candidates what they thought about the thibs firing greatest city in the world https://t.co/…
