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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
Jul 2, 2008
Knicks roll the dice with selection of Gallinari
NEW YORK — When you're the Knicks and picking sixth in a top-heavy freshman draft, and your isolated asset (David Lee) and the slot weren't ample inducement (assuming another obscene contract was out of the question) to move up to harvest Derrick Rose, O. J. Mayo or Kevin Love, the inevitable conclusion...
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 25, 2008
Heinsohn: Pierce one of Celts' all-time greats
NEW YORK —In nine years of playing for the Celtics, Tommy Heinsohn, who came into the NBA the same season as Bill Russell (who arrived six weeks late due to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics) and won top rookie honors, averaged 18.6 points and 8.8 rebounds.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 18, 2008
Lakers in tough as Finals return to Boston
LOS ANGELES — Funny, how minor imperfections (and subtle specialties) became pronounced once the Boston Stranglers got their barely breathing opponents in a 3-2 chokehold.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 11, 2008
Jackson always marched to different beat
BOSTON — Phil Jackson couldn't always afford to be unconventional yet he maintained his nonconformity at a high cost anyway.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 4, 2008
Failure to make Finals will cost Saunders job
NEW YORK — Failing to crash the NBA Finals for the third straight season is guaranteed to cost Pistons coach Flip Saunders a fourth try.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 28, 2008
Reinsdorf scared D'Antoni away from Bulls
NEW YORK — Those in the know reveal Jerry Reinsdorf's business-like approach (vs. Donnie Walsh's unchecked enthusiasm) in Mike D'Antoni's recruitment was the major factor for choosing the Knicks over the Bulls.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 21, 2008
Field wide open in race to be GM of Knicks
NEW YORK — Billy King, Billy Knight, Bernie Bickerstaff and a mystery man are the exclusive competition for the Knicks' GM job, it says here.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 14, 2008
D'Antoni not the solution for troubled Knicks
NEW YORK — "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.'' — Albert Einstein
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 8, 2008
Expect discarded, retread coach to replace D'Antoni in Phoenix
Mike D'Antoni to seek gainful employment elsewhere (attempting to manipulate salary relief on $8.5 million obligation), the Suns have confirmed their coach is not invited back for the two years remaining on his contract. Depending on his agent's success at selling D'Antoni to the Knicks and Bulls who...
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 30, 2008
Return to Charlotte would bring Brown's coaching career full circle
NEW YORK — Let's connect the polka dots.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 24, 2008
Suns' mental gaffes inexcusable
NEW YORK — What better time to dramatize then after the first games of the first series of an inexorable playoff season? Beginning with the Spurs-Suns showdown. . .
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 9, 2008
Mark Jackson qualified to coach Knicks
NEW YORK — This may be a first (and a last) in the New York metro area.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 2, 2008
Where will Next Town Brown resurface?
NEW YORK — Why would even the disseminators of fabrication sense Rick Carlisle is a consequential candidate to replace Isiah Thomas as Knicks coach?
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 26, 2008
Williams, Paul top of class at point
NEW YORK — "At best," Mark Jackson appraises, no disrespect intended, "Steve Nash is the NBA's third-best point guard."
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 12, 2008
Absence of Marion affecting Suns
NEW YORK — Should the staggering Suns slip into qualifying as a 50-plus-win lottery team (as opposed to the Nuggets or Warriors), their fans will be astonished to learn this closet consequence:
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 5, 2008
Marion bashers refuse to exit shadows
NEW YORK — Sorry, but no Shawn Marion column today, as advertised, on the grounds one and all insisted on anonymity with regards to his debatable trade for Shaquille O'Neal.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 27, 2008
Cuban steamed over Nowitzki column
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — For those who get off on me being slapped silly, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban branded my disclosure that Avery Johnson broached trading Dirk Nowitzki a "ridiculous assertion."
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 20, 2008
Mavericks wanted to dump Nowitzki
NEW ORLEANS — I was starting to think Jason Kidd would get back together with ex-wife Joumana before the Mavericks.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 13, 2008
Trade for Shaq a bad move by Suns
NEW YORK — At first shudder, Shaquille O Neal's relocation from one retirement village to another triggered the normal atypical knee-jerk reactions:
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 6, 2008
Acquiring Gasol latest coup for Lakers
NEW YORK — Wilt, Kareem, Magic, Jamaal Wilkes, James Worthy, Shaq and Kobe all became Lakers as a consequence of poor or pressured decisions by competing executives.
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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