Barbara Barker
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Newsday sports columnist, features writer and queen of NY NBA writers. Been around so long I covered Knicks when they were really good and you were 10.
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Best quote in the Nets pressroom from an unidentified reporter: "Just say you're sorry. I've been married twice. You don't have to be sorry to say you're sorry."
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KD on Judge’s new contract with Yanks: “I’m a nationals fan. I really don’t care.”
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Rapinoe has both US goals in this game against France. Turned the pressure up on herself and then performed. First player to score four straight world cup goals in US history. Wonder if POTUS is watching?
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Talking about Djokovic situation with Nets Australian player Patty Mills. Asked him if he thought rules should apply to everyone: "Yeah. I won an Olympic medal and quarantined in a hotel for two weeks."
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Getting scary out here. Crowd of protesters just jumped barricades and pushing towards door. Chanting let Kyrie play.
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Ben Simmons just turned toward reporters, said “Make sure you get this.” And then he dunked!
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Question: “If you could add one rule to nba what would it be. Jalen answer: “everything under two minutes must be reviewed”
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Sounds like Kyrie is staying in Brooklyn for the long haul. “There’s no way I’m leaving my man seven anywhere” he says at shoot around.
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David letterman asks KD if he would play for Knicks on off days. Durant’s response? “They let anyone in here.”
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KD also thinks he had a mvp year and should be a part of conversation, though he knows he isn’t really in running cause he played 55 games
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Frank Ntilikina's mom escaped Rwanda after a machete was held to her neck, rescued 2 sons from a refugee camp and then raised 3 successful boys. Today, she is watching one one of them play in NBA rookie game.
#strongwomen
via
@Newsday
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Kevin Durant just left building being escorted by a pr guy. Did not answer questions or make eye contact. Very un-KD.
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KD said he isn’t expecting Ben Simmons to play. Just wants him to get healthy and doesn’t want to out that pressure on him.
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Nets are now 9-3 when both Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant are playing.
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Cam Reddish was in New York today for physical. He will fly with the team back down to Atlanta today.
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Not sure if this is true, but Grant Williams just said this of KD "We all know after a loss he averages 40 points a game."
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“At the end of the day I’m going to do what’s best for me and my career.....I don’t owe anyone shit.” — Kyrie When asked if about his future and if he will stay in Boston next year.
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KD says he’s not looking to be a superhero per se but “i know what I bring to the table.”
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So sad. Don't know what happened Wed. Do know Oak always had my back in locker room when not everyone was happy about a woman being there.
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KD says he’s been in contact with Kyrie. “his spirits is high. He’s looking forward to playing the game.”
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Kyrie gets the biggest cheer from fans at practice in the park.
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Difference between security at MSG and Barclay's? AT MSG, I run a gauntlet of security who yell to show press pass hanging around my neck despite having walked past the same people for 20 plus years. At Barclays: The nice female guard smiles and asks if I'm having a good day.
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Jacque said he’s pulling for KD and will likely watch his game tonight.
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Nic Claxton on Kyrie Irving this year: “I think he can be MVP, he can be finals MVP, whatever he puts his mind to he can do it.”
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In decades of covering sports, have never seen this happen. After being eliminated by Aces, Liberty bring 2 players & coach to media room. Refuse to make others available No Ionescu. No Betnijah Laney. No Jonquel Jones. Really? I write a shitty story, and I still answer my email.
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Nash laugh when asks if there is a chance Simmons plays tomorrow. Answer is No.
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KD has made 44 of his last 64. When he was asked if he ever had a stretch like this, he responded: “Yeah.”
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In the five major sports, there is little doubt that the Liberty are the best team.
In the three major sports, very possible the Knicks are now the best team in New York.
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Ben Simmons is psyched to begin anew with his new teammates post KD/Kyrie trade: “We got a great group of guys, guys who just want to play basketball.....I'm kind of tired of just, you know, any focus being away from basketball."
via
@Newsday
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Patrick Ewing in the house! Source in the know tells me that the Big Guy will be at Garden for today's Heat-Knicks game.
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@Newsday
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On Simmons: “Ben hasn’t played in two years. Give him a (bleeping) chance.”
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Nash says Seth Curry and Goran are probable for tomorrow in Miami.
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Kyrie Irving when asked what he thought of Porzingis trade: “I respect the Knicks organization. Obviously, they are making moves to position themselves for this upcoming summer. So I wish them the best."
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“For me, I love beating the Knicks and playing against them.”
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Yuta is hoping to play either Friday or Saturday. Said he would like to play both but it’s not likely.
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40 years ago, Knicks were first team to have an All African-American roster. Thanks to Earl Monroe, Bill Cartwright, Butch Beard, Jim Cleamons and Hollis Copeland for sharing the memories of what they went through that season with me.
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"I heard rumors (that the Knicks didn't want to give me a max contract.) I didn't believe it." -- Durant said.
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“At the end of the day, I just want to win. you know I’m a competitor and want to be out there, but like I said, it’s Thibs’ decision”
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James Harden says team still has the leaders to win it all without Kyrie.
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Large group of Kyrie Irving supporters ringing Barclays Center before tonight’s game.
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“I’m coming. I’m getting there” Simmons said after a big game.
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Amazing what you find when you decide to delete a bunch of old photos.
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So many NBA coaches never played in the NBA: the Van Gundys, Popovich, Brad Stevens, Thibodeau. Yet, some how this is always brought up about Hammon who was a six-tiime All-Star in WNBA and has spent four years on the best staff in the league.
Becky Hammon is ready to be a head coach in the NBA,
@meanbarb
writes. So why isn't she getting any consideration?
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“Its about getting knocked down and seeing how we respond. I like how we responded.” — Durant
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Spencer: “we may not be the best trade package, but we’re the best looking.”
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"I grew up 15 minutes from Barclays, but I've always been a New York fan," says Obi Toppin who grew up in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
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Kemba Walker is the second Knick in franchise history to follow a 40-point game with a triple double. (Carmelo Anthony, April 2012).
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My head is kind of spinning after typing Steve Nash's quote on Steph Curry's greatness: "When you see something consistently, you have a tendency to sometimes take for granted how great it is and also how great it is to be that consistent."
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Ng’s is a role model of persistence for young girls and women who dream of having a career in sports management. Passed over at least seven times for GM jobs, she lands the big one at age 51. My column on Derek Jeter's historic hire.
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So Kyrie Irving declined to speak with the media at practice in miami. Has not commented since mandate was changed.
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Derrick Rose, in first interview mid December, says he won’t be back until after All-Star Break. First possible game is Feb 25.
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To penalize someone agame in a grand slam of us open finals is like called my traveling in the final 10 seconds of nba finals. Actually it’s worse.
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Fun time hanging out with
@RonBaker31
in Scott City, Kansas, even if it took 8 hours to fly there! My story.
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Did Bridges just say on TNT that he loves playing at MSG, before correcting himself and saying the Barclays Center?
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“I didn’t like anything,” KD said when asked what he liked and didn’t like in the loss to Miami.
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Why are women always expected to be nurturing and supportive at all costs? Backlash toward Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird and Breanna Stewart over Caitlin Clark commentary is both sexist and unfair via
@Newsday
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Spencer says “it’s Been a year and a half but it feels like five” about all that has gone on since he last played in a nets uniform.
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Good news for Knicks is Alec Burks is expected to be available. Burks missed last game for the birth of his child.
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KD: “We are cutting it close. There’s only 30 games left in the season. We gotta go out there and figure it out.”
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KD On the news Kyrie could be back Sunday: “it’s exciting for everybody. i mean we miss KAI. we miss his presence on the floor.”
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And here he is
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Carmelo anthony has the Knicks all time record with 62. Leaves the game. Fans going crazy.
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Andre Drummond when asked if he expects Kyrie to have a big night against Memphis : “Todays his birthday. God knows whats gonna happen.”
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There are 94 reporters on the Nets post practice zoom call.
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“I believe in Ben as a free throw shooter,” Steve Nash says of Simmons.
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Good news for Nets fans. KD was on the court with team in shoot around and Nash says he has been practicing with team for about a week. No timetable for return.
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RJ Barrett is questionable for Tuesday's game with a non-Covid illness. Also questionable are Derrick Rose, Nerlens Noel and Taj Gibson.
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Thibodeau quote of the day: "I see my job as telling the team the truth as I see it. Looking where we are, there has to be urgency."
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Meanwhile, James Harden is one win away from advancing to the second round with Philly. Had 19 points and 10 assists and six rebounds tonight.
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Thibs said he is mulling over a possible lineup change as Knicks head on three-game road trip.
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“Our minds our bodies and souls were still in LA. LA will do that to you sometimes.”
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Ben Simmons on playing for the first time in 18 months: “I felt good out there. shit I felt great.”
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Thought I'd re-tweet this. Who says creativity doesn't pay off.
Hey
@NBA
, Joe Harris lives to shoot. So give the people what they want and put Joey Buckets in the Three-Point Contest 🧔👌
#NBAAllStar
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Marcus Morris on this coming Knicks season: “I can tell you this, it’s not gonna be like last year.”
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These seats are being held empty tonight. This is where Kobe and Gigi sat in Dec. 21 against Hawks.
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Actually, there's a lot of truth in this.
The Nets have now acquired all three types of Brooklyn guy; a weirdly skinny guy, a guy with a huge beard, and a guy who’s obsessed with astrology and conspiracy theories.
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Hey
@StevePopper
. Fiz said he did not want to put Ntilikina on court in garbage time last night. Said Fiz: "I still see Frank as a rotation player. I didn’t want to do that to him....He had a heck of a practice today and you will be seeing frank on the court sometime soon.
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Ohio State’s Malachi Branham considers himself to be one of the top shooters in draft. His one flaw may be that he’s overly polite as he referred to
@NYPost_Berman
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Jalen at 2 on Long Island. Jalen at 27 at the Garden. Same cold death stare, lol. My story on the making of an All Star.
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Stan Van Gundy on Knicks schedule: "Well, they’ve played 20 at home and 11 on the road, so a cynical person, which I’m not, would say that the league tried to help them build some confidence early in the year by giving them a lot of home games."
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KD on what he learned from Kobe: “Really just don’t be a crybaby.”
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So KD has already signed long term deal with Nets and it sounds like Kyrie plans to do same this summer. “Its always been about being comfortable where im at and i love it here…..We’re gonna have some conversations but theres no way i could leave my man seven anywhere.”
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