Steve Popper covers the Knicks for Newsday. He has spent nearly three decades covering the Knicks and the NBA, along with just about every sports team in the New York metropolitan area.

Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr. Unlike in Game 1 of the NBA’s Eastern Conference finals, the Knicks did not suffer a historic late-game collapse in Game 2 on Friday. Like in Game 1 ...

The Knicks missed two big free throws ... back Indiana found its rhythm during a 2nd-half rally to stun Oklahoma City and win Game 1 of the 2025 NBA Finals.

The team we saw on the floor in Game 6 can not only get to the NBA ... week. Indiana plays fast and turned into a really good defensive team in the second half of the season. For the Knicks ...

That’s probably not a big revelation about an Eastern Conference finals — the first involving the Knicks since 2000 — but it was one of the consensus views from five experts interviewed by ...

The New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers are going at it again. The two teams are meeting in the Eastern Conference Finals with a trip to the 2025 NBA Finals at stake. The Pacers eliminated the ...

On average, a 38% shooter should make two out of six shots, and if Nesmith does that, the Knicks are up 1-0 in this series. If the Pacers reach the NBA Finals ... in the 2nd quarter turned ...

The New York Knicks are perhaps defining comeback season better than Drake ever could. Those who exit or turn off Knick playoff games early, no matter the margin, risk missing NBA history.

The Knicks led for much of regulation and were ahead by double digits in the fourth quarter. But the Pacers stayed close enough to make a successful charge in the final minute of regulation.

Even if they complete a miracle comeback against the Pacers, an NBA championship is not in the Knicks’ future, at least according to Stephen A. Smith. During Friday’s episode of ESPN’s ...

The No. 4 seed Indiana Pacers and No. 3 seed New York Knicks play May 21 in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference Finals NBA playoffs series. The game is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. MST (8 p.m ...

A month’s worth of tech news dropped in four days this week. Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic held developer conferences filled with new models and product releases. OpenAI acquired Jony Ive’s ...