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Peter Vecsey
Peter Vecsey of the New York Post is the most prominent basketball columnist in the world. He has covered the NBA for the past 30 years, and has been an expert analyst on both network and cable television in the United States. His inside information and access to the league's top players, coaches and executives have helped earn him recognition as one of the "Most Powerful People in Sports" by The Sporting News.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 27, 2012
Florida media get it wrong on LeBron
So, as I'm waiting to flotilla out of Florida, I felt compelled to support the newspaper industry by purchasing some of the local periodicals to get their take on what I had just seen.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 20, 2012
How Jordan kept Isiah off Dream Team
Ironic how last Thursday was Flag Day and here we are, draped in drool over the 20th anniversary of the narcissistic 1992 Dream Team.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 13, 2012
Heat should roll up Thunder in six
Which images grabbed or repelled you the most Saturday night as the bent and battered Ancient Men of the C's farewell tour proved no endurance challenge to the Stones, and the Heat hopscotched to The Finals for the second straight season since LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh ganged up on the...
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 6, 2012
Durant, Green show class of West's best organizations
Kevin Durant cannot possibly be, as commonly portrayed, as great a guy as he is a player, right?
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 30, 2012
Spurs-Thunder clash good as it gets
It doesn't get more captivating than the invincible Spurs vs. the near-impregnable Thunder.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 4, 2012
Knicks should keep Woodson as coach
As long as the Knicks make the playoffs and, you know what, even if they don't due to injuries, Mike Woodson will be the team's biggest winner this season.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 28, 2012
Durant, Love friends from way back
Friday night's 289-point delight, a double-overtime home theater Thunder conquest of the Timberwolves, stimulated trampled memory sprouts of the captivating conflicts between the Nuggets — Alex English, Dan Issel and Kiki Vandeweghe — and the Spurs —George Gervin, Artis Gilmore and Larry Kenon....
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 21, 2012
Zen Master has nothing to gain by coaching Knicks
You know me; I'm too professional, polite and reverential of the coaching profession to speculate about interim Mike Woodson's successor while he still retains the Knicks' (favorite) title . . . at least as long as he's undefeated.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 14, 2012
Love deserves consideration for MVP
When Kevin Love was in high-school, numerous people devalued his accomplishments, probably because he complied with gravity and didn't quite qualify as a gymnast or a contortionist.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 7, 2012
Odom's presence crucial for Mavs
Time to check your Odom-eter:
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 29, 2012
Howard plot thickens near deadline
Regardless of speculation and fabrication about additional destinations under consideration, Dwight Howard's trade request remains unwavering. He is amenable to commit long-term with the Nets, Lakers, and Mavericks. That's it, just those three teams.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 22, 2012
Smith's track record cause for concern
On a one-week assignment with the Nuggets last season in full anticipation of Carmelo Anthony exclusively spilling his guts to me about every aspect of his life and forthcoming destination, I accompanied the team on its charter to Phoenix.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 15, 2012
Nets squandered chance to draft Kobe
Kobe Bryant's annual Garden variety visit last Friday triggered me to re-examine the draft of 1996. Many people have gone straight from high school to Hollywood and become overnight sensations . . . after countless years of dejection and rejection. Kobe actually morphed into a Lakers' legend almost on...
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 8, 2012
Why didn't Lin get a chance earlier?
There they were in Boston on Friday night with an actual chance to silence the wolves, the lambs and the vultures and what did the Knicks do? Croaked from second-hand choke.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 1, 2012
Dysfunction has Wizards doomed
Flip Saunders isn't the reason the Wizards flopped. Just ask him.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 25, 2012
Desperate Knicks could use Tinsley
Kobe Bryant recently "pinpointed" Jamaal Tinsley as an ideal conductor of offensive arrangements, exactly what the Lakers (and Knicks) distinctly lack.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 18, 2012
Clippers looking like the real deal
In Kobe Bryant's initial meeting with Mike Brown, he cautioned the Lakers' newly hired coach "not to pull back," to coach him "like everyone else; otherwise the players will turn on you," he told me during dinner in Los Angeles just before Christmas.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 11, 2012
Players no different than in old days
On second thought, I was wrong to make it appear coach killers DeMarcus Cousins and Tyreke Evans of the Sacramento Kings — who paved the way for Paul Westphal's recent ouster — are more full of themselves than self-absorbed slugs back in the day.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 4, 2012
Rubio displays jaw-dropping talent
Now I know what all the fuss has been about. Now I know why NBA executives and Euro talent scouts were so enchanted all these years. Now I understand why Donnie Walsh offered to give up smoking to make Ricky Rubio a Knick.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 21, 2011
Support helps Jackson take first coaching steps
Five minutes before Mark Jackson was to conduct his initial rehearsal as a head coach at any level — ahem, exempting a brief AAU fling — he sat in the Warriors' locker room by himself and let his wired emotions guide him.
Human error caused JAL jet collision at Haneda Airport: safety board
The wreckage of a Japan Airlines plane after a collision with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft, at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Jan. 5, three days after the crash.
North Korean hacker group behind DMM Bitcoin’s cryptocurrency leak
A North Korean hacker group is believed to have planted a virus on the computer of an employee at Ginco — a company that was entrusted with the deposit and withdrawal of DMM Bitcoin’s virtual currency — through a fake job recruitment message sent via LinkedIn.
Residents of Shizuoka live longest healthy lives in Japan, ranking shows
The nationwide average for men's healthy life expectancy decreased 0.11 year from the previous survey, three years earlier, to 72.57 years, while that for women rose 0.07 year to 75.45 years.
High levels of PFAS found in water from 44 private suppliers across Japan
The Self-Defense Forces facilities are believed to have become sources of PFAS contamination because they used firefighting foam containing the toxic chemicals in the past.
Health ministry urges caution as flu cases rise nationwide
From Dec. 9 to Dec. 15, there were 94,259 flu cases reported across some 5,000 hospitals and clinics nationwide, according to the health ministry.
High levels of PFAS found in water from 44 private suppliers across Japan
The Self-Defense Forces facilities are believed to have become sources of PFAS contamination because they used firefighting foam containing the toxic chemicals in the past.
For baseball fans, 2024 brought The Summer of Shohei Ohtani
Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani reacts to a standing ovation from fans after hitting his 50th home run of the season, against the Marlins in Miami on Sept. 19.
Trump's Pentagon policy pick pushed for Japan to spend 3% of GDP on defense
Elbridge Colby (center) speaks at the Threat and the Strategy panel during the Air Force Association Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, in September 2019.
A brief history of ‘osechi ryōri,' Japan's edible tradition for the new year
Japan's traditional New Year cuisine has a long history, though modern developments have led to slight changes in the way things work.
Japan accuses Google of violating antimonopoly law
The Japanese antitrust watchdog said that Google forced smartphone makers to preinstall its search app on their devices, sources say.

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