Barbara Barker

5 days 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.

6 days 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.

6 days 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.

1 week ago | newsday.com | Barbara Barker

INDIANAPOLIS — This is not me. This is not us. That was Josh Hart’s take after watching video of the Knicks' Game 4 clunker in Indiana. Hart was so upset by the way he played in the 130-121 loss that put his team on the brink of elimination that he could barely look at his teammates. The way he saw it, he owed them something more and committed to do everything possible to get to get the team going and extend their season at least one more game.

1 week ago | newsday.com | Barbara Barker

The most famous moment in Knicks history wasn’t shown live on national television and it happened long before the majority of today’s Knicks fans were born. Still, anyone who has ever cheered for the Knicks — whether it be during the Walt Frazier era or Jalen Brunson era or somewhere in between — can give play by play of Willis Reed’s emotional hobble through the tunnel for Game 7 of the Knicks-Lakers NBA Finals in 1970 like they had been there sitting courtside eating a 50-cent hotdog.