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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
Apr 22, 2005
Phoenix's Nash clear choice as NBA's MVP this season
NEW YORK -- For those scoring in the league office, this is how I voted for . . .
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 15, 2005
Cavs want coach with NBA experience
NEW YORK -- Contrary to reports, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo is not among Dan Gilbert's candidates to coach the Cavaliers.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 9, 2005
Moves by Cavaliers simply confounding
NEW YORK -- How stupid would it be to swap jockeys in the backstretch of a winnable race?
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 30, 2005
Season gets stranger for Pacers
NEW YORK -- Really, can anything else happen to Indiana this season?
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 23, 2005
Jackson could join LeBron in Cleveland
NEW YORK -- Well, at least when Don Nelson's coaching days in Dallas ended a few days ago his son (Donnie) got to remain a Maverick, which is more than can be said for Paul Silas whose son (Stephen) was dusted along with him yesterday by the Cavaliers.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 6, 2005
76ers must be patient while Iverson, Webber try to mesh
NEW YORK -- You can lead a compulsive scoring point guard to a recognized reservoir of talent but you can't make him feed it or feed off it.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 27, 2005
Isiah's plan to improve Knicks puzzling
NEW YORK -- On a day it might have been easier for the NBA to relocate franchises rather than move the multitude of traded players, Isiah Thomas almost did exactly the opposite of what he's been saying over the last couple weeks he wouldn't do.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 10, 2005
How about Coach K for Team USA?
NEW YORK -- Sources confirm Jerry Colangelo has been quietly chosen to preside over the U.S. Olympic basketball selection committee and overhaul it how he sees fit.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 27, 2005
Wilkens debacle means honeymoon over for Isiah in New York
NEW YORK -- Paying off or buying out predecessors' blunders -- coaches, players and front office personnel -- is acceptable standard operating procedure for newly hired sports executives.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 23, 2005
Injury keeps Hornets from moving Davis
NEW YORK -- Baron Davis has a treacherous back (that requires surgery, I'm told, and prevents him from practicing when all other body parts are functioning normally), a ghastly contract ($62.9 million guaranteed -- fully protected, no exemptions -- over the next four seasons) and unsavory shot selection....
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 30, 2004
Rockets' trade of journeyman Jackson is hard to figure
NEW YORK -- Jimmy Jackson got the call yesterday he didn't want to hear, and had no idea was coming.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 22, 2004
Net gain: Adding Carter, subtracting 'Zo
NEW YORK -- If Vince Carter never plays a game for the Nets it was still a great trade.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 11, 2004
Malone latest to feel wrath of Kobe's wife
NEW YORK -- You realize, of course, Kobe Bryant knew exactly what he was doing when he made himself available for an interview on ex-Laker Mychal Thompson's L.A. radio show earlier this week.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Nov 25, 2004
Commissioner Stern stands firm in bid to restore image
NEW YORK -- Unlike David Stern, who's clever enough to sift through and digest the countless number of confrontations, machinations, nuances and interrogations relevant to the scariest NBA scene he confesses to have ever witnessed and impart a ground-breaking decision within 36 hours, my investigation...
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Nov 19, 2004
Sonics making loud noise; Gasol on empty
NEW YORK -- With one quarter left in Sunday's game I was all set to diss Danny (The Flagrant Vagrant) Fortson, Seattle's solo paint presence, for drawing a one-game suspension and sullying the Sonic boom.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Nov 12, 2004
D'Antoni has Phoenix on move
NEW YORK -- Coaches love to blame the rules for the godforsaken plunge in scoring over the last decade while the league (and the rest of us) likes to blame the control freaks on the sidelines who don't seem to care or comprehend that basketball is an instinctive game not a rehearsed ritual.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Nov 6, 2004
Magic a surprise out of gate; Lakers looking pretty lame
NEW YORK -- "It's never too early to revolutionize opinions or retract them," that's my saying.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Oct 28, 2004
Mavs may lose out over Dampier's knees
NEW YORK -- Losing Erick Dampier to the Mavericks might look as if it's minimized the Knicks' odds of accomplishing something meaningful this season and maximized Dallas' chances of winning the West, but there's a little-known overcast medical fact about him that might diminish New Yorkers' depression....
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Oct 21, 2004
Cutting back on 3-pointers is not a good idea
NEW YORK -- Can't say I'm the least bit surprised the NBA's deep thinkers are considering banning the 3-point shot until the last five minutes of regulation; and, what, long distance field goals only will count as three points in the last 30 seconds of overtime?
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Oct 14, 2004
New owner of Nets has a lot to learn
NEW YORK -- Though no trade conversation actually took place between the Nets and Mavericks in early August, which is contrary to widespread reports, Mark Cuban was seriously considering the acquisition of 31 1/2-year old Jason Kidd for the appropriate (bad) contracts once his knee rehab was confirmed...
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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