The NBA season is in full swing, and we will be here each weekday with the NBC Sports daily roundup Three Things to Know — everything you might have missed in the Association, every key moment from the night before in one place. 1) One one-year anniversary of taking over, Leon Rose has Knicks thriving If the playoffs started today, the four-seed New York Knicks would host a series at Madison Square Garden. If you had made that statement one year ago today — the day Leon Rose took over as Knicks president of basketball operations — you would have been quickly reminded that New York has not legalized that stuff yet. Maybe Rose would work out in a position where so many others had failed (or been cut off at the knees by James Dolan when they succeeded), but turning around this ship was expected to take several years. No, it didn’t. The Knicks are over .500 on March 1 for the first time since 2013 (the last time they made the playoffs). The Knicks just finished a 9-5 February … [Read more...] about Three things to know: It’s been a year and Leon Rose has Knicks thriving
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Playing for Knicks “means the world” to Joakim Noah, according to his father
For those that don’t know, Joakim Noah ‘s father was a tennis stud. Yannick Noah is a former No. 3 player in the world, he racked up 23 singles titles and 16 doubles titles in his career, and he remains the last Frenchman to win the French Open. Not shockingly, he’s been hanging out in Queens the last week at the U.S. Open. That’s where George Willis of the New York Post caught up with Yannick to talk about his son, who grew up in New York and this season will play for the Knicks at Madison Square Garden. “It means the world to him,” the elder Noah said of Joakim joining the Knicks. “We used to go to the Garden when he was a kid, watching games, watching Patrick [Ewing] play. To know that he’s going to play in the Garden, we feel so blessed. He’s preparing hard. He has a lot of hope and he can’t wait. And I’ll be there.” Knicks fans will love him and treat him as one of their own. At least at first. If things go sideways in the Garden, all bets are off. Some guys can get … [Read more...] about Playing for Knicks “means the world” to Joakim Noah, according to his father