Neil Best

New York, United States

Reporter at Newsday

Enemy of the people

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Knicks radio announcer Tyler Murray: 'Like living a dream'

5 days ago | newsday.com | Neil Best

Tyler Murray sensed the buzz last autumn. “You heard a lot of folks calling it the most anticipated Knicks’ season in decades,” he said. “[They said], ‘We've never been this excited for Knicks basketball!’ I was like, that's funny, neither have I.”That was because in addition to being a lifelong Knicks fan, Murray, 34, was starting his first season as the team’s lead radio play-by-play voice on ESPN New York.
Bob Costas is comfortable with his decision to retire from broadcasting baseball games

5 days ago | newsday.com | Neil Best

Charles “Chuck” Aurandt had been a minor league pitcher in the late 1940s, so he knew baseball talent when he saw it. He did not see it in Bob Costas. When he made Costas the final cut from the high school team at Commack South in 1969, the coach noted he was not bad with the glove and had some speed.
Knicks-Celtics tickets for Game 3 and others at Madison Square Garden reach new level

6 days ago | newsday.com | Neil Best

Knicks fans are excited about the team’s 2-0 series lead over the Celtics in the Eastern Conference semifinals, but there is a price to pay for that – literally. Tickets to Games 3, 4 and 6 at Madison Square Garden on the resale market have reached unprecedented levels. As of Thursday afternoon, TickPick said Game 3 on Saturday afternoon was the most expensive Knicks home game on record, with an average sale price of $983. To be clear, that is not an average asking price.
Chris Drury, Mike Sullivan and a decades-old bus ride leads to Rangers pairing

6 days ago | newsday.com | Neil Best

GREENBURGH – Chris Drury was a 20-year-old junior at Boston University. Mike Sullivan was a 29-year-old, six-year NHL veteran. They were somewhere in Finland, teammates on Team USA for the world hockey championships. One of them was petrified. “I’m sitting in the second or third seat on the bus and scared out of my mind,” Drury recalled on Thursday morning, shortly after the Rangers’ president and GM introduced Sullivan as his new coach. “Am I good enough to be here? Should I be here? I'm in college.
Rangers broadcaster Joe Micheletti announces his retirement

1 week ago | newsday.com | Neil Best

The Rangers will have an entirely new television booth next season. Analyst Joe Micheletti announced his retirement on Thursday, joining his longtime play-by-play partner, Sam Rosen, in leaving MSG Networks. Micheletti, 70, had worked with Rosen on Rangers telecasts for 19 seasons after previously spending seven as an analyst for Islanders games. “From pond hockey in Minnesota to the bright lights of Broadway, my hockey journey has been a magical ride,” he said in a news release.
Three takeaways from Knicks' Game 5 loss to Pistons

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Neil Best

Some thoughts on another long, strange, highly competitive battle between the Knicks and the persistently pesky Pistons on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden:1 — The Knicks appear to be in legitimate trouble. People who follow the NBA closely figured the Knicks were in for a battle from the brash, up-and-coming Pistons. Those people were right. Every game in the series could have gone either way, and the Pistons believe they should have won one or both games in Detroit.
Walt Frazier on MSG's final playoff game: 'Devastating'

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Neil Best

Walt Frazier worked his first Knicks playoff game on March 22, 1968, when he was a 22-year-old rookie guard. On Tuesday night, he could work his last, a reality he called “devastating.”“It’s definitely a downer,” the MSG Networks analyst told Newsday on Monday as he prepared to call Game 5 of the Knicks’ first-round series against the Pistons. Even if the Knicks fail to close out the Pistons on Tuesday, Frazier’s playoff run will be over by the end of the week, after Game 6 or 7.
Walt Frazier recalls Dick Barnett: 'Such an impact on my life'

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Neil Best

Walt Frazier said Monday was a day full of both tears and laughter as he recalled his friend and Knicks teammate, Dick Barnett, who died on Sunday at 88. “He’s had such an impact on my life, man” Frazier told Newsday. “It's just incredible when I look back on it. Periodically, I have been crying when I think about it.”Then Frazier added, “He was the funniest guy on the team. This guy was hilarious.
Knicks legend Dick Barnett dies at age 88

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Neil Best

Dick Barnett won two NBA championships with the Knicks and spent decades during and after his playing career as one of the most interesting men in basketball — from his natty attire to his Ph.D. in education. But for fans old enough to have watched him play, there is one memory that lingers above all about Barnett, who died on Sunday at age 88: He had one of the most unorthodox jump shots in the history of the sport.
MSG Networks restructures debt to avoid bankruptcy

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Neil Best

MSG Networks has reached a deal to restructure its debt, according to an SEC filing on Friday morning, allowing it to avoid bankruptcy and potentially become a more attractive target for sale. As part of the agreement with lenders, MSG Networks will reduce the rights fees it pays to carry Knicks games by 28% and Rangers games by 18%. MSG Networks had been paying approximately $187 million this season to carry the two teams’ games, according to the company's recent quarterly report.

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