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New York Knicks forward and perennial NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony is one of Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim's former players, and like most good coaches, Boeheim is loyal to his guys. But Anthony is obviously much more than that. He's the player chiefly ...

You have to hand it to Isiah Thomas: The man clearly loves basketball. Whatever his other motivations for taking the Florida International job three years ago, it's hard to argue that a love of basketball wasn't at least partially behind it. The s...

The season is over, and a champion has been crowned. What's next? There are always distinct storylines worth tracking this time of year. What will we be watching in spring, summer and fall of 2012?

Technically, this is an NBA story, because Josh Harrellson is (improbably and awesomely) now technically a member of the New York Knicks. But the NBA lockout continues to drag on, and we college hoops fans have a special appreciation for the man they...

It's the day after the draft. For me, that means sitting at my desk, staring at my computer screen, and wondering if what I saw unfold last night is really how things went down. In other words, I'm still processing all this. You know what else th...

That's right. Isaiah Thomas, the Washington guard who's quietly making a case for Pac-10 (and even national) player of the year honors, was named after the former Pistons guard, current FIU head coach, and formerly disastrous New York Knicks general ...

There's never been much of a question that former New York Knicks general manager Isiah Thomas wanted another shot at the NBA. He's been open about it before. Before the NBA stepped in, Thomas was technically still employed by the Knicks as recently ...

It's fun to blame LeBron James for things. The sporting summer's utter lack of self-awareness and perspective? Blame LeBron. A free-agent fracas that annoyingly consumed our worlds for several months? Blame LeBron. An NBA whose stars must now consoli...

Well, that didn't take long. Isiah Thomas and the New York Knicks set off something of a firestorm last week, somehow managing to confuse both NBA and college hoops observers with the tenuous announcement that Thomas would serve as a front-office ...

Jim Boeheim and Mike Krzyzewski aren't the first college hoops observers to notice the massive conflict of interest at the heart of Isiah Thomas' job as a consultant with the New York Knicks. Our own Dana O'Neil tackled that last week. The calculus i...

It's never a good sign when one team has more players drafted in the first round than your entire conference combined. Sure, Kentucky put on a legendary draft night performance Thursday, but still: That's not good. Such is the case for the Pac-10 ...