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Jalen Brunson goes up for a layup in the fourth quarter of the Knicks’ Game 1 win on April 19, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post It’s gotta be the shoes, right?  There has to be a reason Jalen Brunson left the bench after struggling all game, changed sneakers and immediately morphed into Superman … Read more

New York Knicks guard Cameron Payne acknowledges the crowd as he walks back to the bench during the fourth quarter on April 19, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post The Garden was dead. Actually, that’s not quite right; the Garden was beyond dead. All those press clippings about the Pistons and their fearless ferocity … Read more

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Julius Randle (30) looks to pass under pressure from Lakers forward LeBron James (23) at Crypto.com Arena on Saturday. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Before the first game of the Lakers’ postseason, head coach JJ Redick clenched as he spoke, a very serious person acting even more seriously than usual. … Read more

Prediction? Pain. Cam Payne.  But really, nobody could have predicted this. Not even Clubber Lang.  Payne wasn’t even expected to be a big part of the Knicks’ playoff rotation, if part of it at all. But coach Tom Thibodeau surprisingly featured a nine-man rotation, and there Payne was, injecting needed life into the Knicks when … Read more

As soon as the final horn sounded Saturday night on the Knicks’ 123-112 win, Pistons forward and Long Island native Tobias Harris went over to his team’s bench and went down the line, offering words of encouragement to his group.  “It’s a series,” Harris reminded them. “You can’t get too high, you can’t get too … Read more

OG Anunoby is greeted by New York Knicks assistant coach Rick Brunson during the first quarter on April 19, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post Grades for the Knicks’ 123-112 Game 1 win over the Pistons   Jalen Brunson: B+  Struggled mightily until the fourth quarter, when he emerged from the locker room with … Read more

The roster of guys who didn’t talk on breakup day said it all.  Anthony Duclair, who didn’t play the season’s last eight games after Patrick Roy called him out in extraordinarily harsh terms, didn’t address reporters, with an Islanders spokesman declining to say whether Duclair was even on the premises. Roy didn’t talk either. Nor … Read more

Access the Mets beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets. The sample sizes are too small to condemn the Mets over their struggles with runners in scoring position. Entering play Saturday, they were hitting .178 (the second worst … Read more

Max Meyer of the Miami Marlins pitches against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the first inning of the game at loanDepot park on April 16, 2025 in Miami, Florida. Getty Images Being a first-round draft pick comes with a certain level of expectation. Some players waste no time exceeding those expectations (hello, Paul Skenes), while others … Read more

Kyle Kuzma did a whole lot of nothing for the Bucks to open up their 2025 postseason. Kuzma, 29, had one of the worst individual playoff performances in recent history during Saturday’s 117-98 loss against the Pacers in Indiana. Through 21 minutes during the Eastern Conference first-round matchup, Kuzma failed to record a single counting … Read more