If anyone needs a little levity today, here’s an actual text exchange between me and my wife just now:
Jonathan Macri
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Jonathan Macri
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Dean of @KnickFilmSkool. Host of @NBATakedownPod. Girl Dad. Recovering lawyer. Words on Substack (link below)
- Games played since the start of the 2014-15 season, the year Joel Embiid was drafted and Carmelo Anthony’s 12th year in the NBA: Melo: 470 Embiid: 452 Anthony has been retired for three years.Carmelo Anthony's durability remains one of his most overlooked traits. Melo finishes his career with over 100 recorded injuries or illnesses, including multiple surgeries on his L knee, elbow surgery, a broken hand, bilateral shoulder labrum tears, & at least 15 ankle sprains.
- Greatest 1-season Knick in history.Thank You, Donte.
- In the "you can't write this shit" department: Knicks Blazers featured 42 lead changes, which is second most since the NBA began tracking play-by-play data in 1996 The game with the most? Nets vs Hawks in '23, which had 43 changes and ended on a game winner by... Mikal Bridges
- SOURCES: Starting at PG for the New York Knicks tonight, Isabelle Ava Macri
- Kevin Durant’s live reaction to news breaking that he’s been traded to the Houston Rockets:
00:00 - I’ll say it now: With Brunson back to being Brunson…. With Burks giving them EVERYTHING they needed and then some… And with Deuce making Thibs look like a genius… This HAS to go down as the Isaiah Hartenstein Game.
- Take it in, Knicks fans. You have the best offense in basketball.
- I feel so bad for Mitchell Robinson, who tried to play basketball today but couldn’t because Joel Embiid took him out of the last game with several non-basketball plays.i feel so bad for embiid. beyond trying to just be on the floor, he tried to make big plays - the brunson pressure, the layup attempt - and match the knicks physicality and just couldn’t quite do it.
- The Knicks made us crawl through 500 yards of shit smelling foulness tonight before we tasted the sweet freedom of this Quickley, RJ, Knox, Obi & Mitch lineup.
- Points scored by Julius as a Knick: 7445 Points scored by KD & Kyrie combined as Nets: 7623Five years ago today, the Knicks signed Julius Randle after the Nets signed Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.
- “You don’t really need to watch our games” is a hell of a sales pitch from the commissioner of the NBA.Adam Silver was asked about the rising cost to watch a season of NBA games as a fan of a particular team, considering all the games on either cable or streaming services. He said that there a bunch of games that will go on free, broadcast TV, and that fans can also consume the
