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GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- "We failed." That's how Iman Shumpert summed up the Knicks' playoff exit. "We failed to do what we were supposed to do," he said Monday after his exit interview. "We know we were supposed to go farther, and we didn't." Sh...

As one veteran NBA scout put it, the Knicks brought a "different intensity level" to their Game 5 victory. It all started on defense in the first quarter when Tyson Chandler and Pablo Prigioni's defense led to early offense. "The key to the gam...

Since the Knicks' Game 3 loss on Saturday, Tyson Chandler has expressed his displeasure with the team's offense, Kenyon Martin has come down with an illness, J.R. Smith still feels sick, and now Iman Shumpert is dealing with soreness in his surgicall...

After both losses to the Pacers, the Knicks pointed to the core of the problems: getting beat on the offensive boards. After Game 1, Mike Woodson said, "The second-chance buckets hurt us because we were out of position a lot of time." After Gam...

Knicks center Tyson Chandler was named to the All-Defensive First Team, the NBA announced Monday. He's the first Knicks player to earn first-team honors since Charles Oakley in 1994. Joining Chandler on the first team are Tony Allen (Grizzlies), S...

GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Mike Woodson said after Thursday's practice that the three days rest until Game 3 has benefited the older players. While Tyson Chandler, 30, is not in the age bracket of Jason Kidd, Pablo Prigioni and Kenyon Martin, the center ...

Usually around the midway point of the fourth quarter, Pablo Prigioni knows what's coming: a substitution that will keep him on the bench for the rest of the game. But that wasn't the case on Tuesday night, with Raymond Felton being tended to on t...

First things first: The Knicks need their top two scorers, Carmelo Anthony and J.R. Smith, to have better shooting nights in Game 2. They combined to go 14-for-43 on Sunday afternoon in the Knicks loss. Tyson Chandler's four-point, three-rebound perf...

With the Indiana Pacers owning the size advantage in this second-round series, the New York Knicks need to play bigger defensively and on the boards. That especially goes for Tyson Chandler. But in the Knicks' Game 1 loss on Sunday, Chandler was a...

BOSTON -- Carmelo Anthony shouldn't have had to take seven extra shots in the final six minutes of the New York Knicks' first-round series clincher on Friday night. The Knicks were up 69-47 at the start of the fourth quarter with Anthony playing o...

BOSTON -- The New York Knicks jumped out to a 24-10 lead in the first quarter, a credit to their defense and controlling the tempo in transition. Meanwhile, the Boston Celtics struggled to hit even open shots (midway through the second period); Paul ...

J.R. Smith and Raymond Felton have picked up their play down the stretch this season. Is Tyson Chandler next? The numbers suggest he is. Chandler's increase in minutes and rebounds from Games 1 to 4 prove he's returning to form after losing wei...

BOSTON -- After playing 20 minutes and then 22 in Games 1 and 2, a playing time progression seemed likely in Game 3 for the New York Knicks' Tyson Chandler, who recently had been battling conditioning issues since overcoming the flu. The upward cl...

The Knicks trailed at halftime in Games 1 and 2, mostly because their offense stuttered -- a combination of the Celtics' swarming defense, and Carmelo Anthony and J.R. Smith's isolation-heavy plays. "Sometimes Melo and myself get doubled and somet...

To close out the regular season, the Knicks were mostly without five big men. But one guy was able to keep the team's interior defense in check during their winning streak: Kenyon Martin. The rugged K-Mart has carried that do-whatever-it-takes app...

In Games 1 and 2, Tyson Chandler has only averaged 21 minutes, totaling a combined three points and 10 rebounds. Clearly, the starting center is still not himself, and on Wednesday, Mike Woodson shed some light on his All-Star center's situation. ...