Peter Vecsey - The Japan Times

November 22, 2024

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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

Feb 12, 2004

Play of Knicks puts Isiah in better position to wheel and deal

NEW YORK -- Dealing from weakness, Isiah Thomas was able to obtain Stephon Marbury when the Knicks were sinking out of the standings because he was willing to relinquish draft picks, youth and desirable contracts.

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Feb 6, 2004

Media blames 'coach killers'

NEW YORK --Byron Scott's firing encouraged an irresistibly, hysterical deduction by the player-hating segment of the media: The NBA is a (cancerous) cluster of coach killers.

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Jan 29, 2004

Scott's sacking by Nets was no shock

NEW YORK -- For a while there, I thought the Nets' latest farce would never end.

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Jan 22, 2004

Pistons respond as Brown adjusts

NEW YORK -- Larry Brown's teams historically struggle at the outset of his rule. It takes time for the players to figure out what he wants.

MORE SPORTS / NBA REPORT

Jan 17, 2004

Wilkens not the right coach for Knicks

NEW YORK -- So, for a change, the New York Daily News was correct; Don Chaney was, indeed, replaced on the Knicks' sidelines by a former coach of the Cavaliers and Hawks who's represented by Atlanta-based Lonnie Cooper (as is Isiah Thomas) . . . except it's not Mike Fratello, it's Lenny Wilkens.

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Jan 11, 2004

Despite flaws, Wallace still a man in demand

NEW YORK -- Aside from the obvious downside of relocating communications major, Rasheed Wallace, to the media capital of the world, his acquisition by the Knicks would force the NBA's Competition Committee to reposition them in the Western Conference.

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Jan 8, 2004

Move for Marbury was a winner for New York Knicks

NEW YORK -- The answer: Burberry, Blackberry and now seats to see Marbury.

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Jan 1, 2004

Knicks hiring of Thomas doesn't necessarily spell danger for Chaney

NEW YORK -- In view of Scott Layden's still smoldering dismissal, why would any clear thinker vaguely concerned with credibility hypothesize Knicks coach Don Chaney is in immediate danger of being fired?

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Dec 18, 2003

Wallace lives up to nickname

NEW YORK -- The less Rasheed Wallace's silly soliloquy is scrutinized, the less exposure his fraudulence is afforded. To so much as deny his drivel, fine him for such tasteless thoughtlessness, much less waste a subdivision of space to refute such uneducated gibberish, is to dignify it.

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Dec 14, 2003

Suns didn't rise for Johnson like last season

NEW YORK -- The healthier Antonio McDyess (not necessarily the Knicks) gets, the more extraneous Kurt Thomas becomes, logic dictates.

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Dec 11, 2003

Hard to believe McMillan is really in trouble as coach of Sonics

NEW YORK -- If a writer can't get an easily checkable, exceptionally vital fact correct in a prickly news story markedly rampant with purportedly contentious conversation between a coach and his players and his bosses, why should we accept anything of import as being accurate?

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Dec 4, 2003

Rivers made the final call on dumping Armstrong

NEW YORK -- Four defeats A.D. (After Doc), hints and allegations continue to dribble-drive-and-dish throughout the league; the misinformed majority would like you to believe Magic GM John Gabriel undermined his undeviatingly adored coach by refusing to re-sign force field Darrell Armstrong. Not.

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Nov 20, 2003

Talk of Kobe joining Spurs just hot air

NEW YORK -- Welcome to the NBA where Jazz fans are wondering why John Stockton took so long to retire and turn over the point guard responsibilities to Carlos Arroyo.

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Nov 6, 2003

Kobe a loner who still has much to learn

NEW YORK -- As a self-trained psychoanalyst, I'm greatly tempted to explore the alcoves of Kobe Bryant's innermost thoughts regarding loneliness, ruthless words about Shaquille O'Neal and dirty deed with a stranger whose allegation will stain him forever even if found innocent (bad choice of words),...

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Oct 30, 2003

Hall of Famer West regrets Riley's decision to walk away from coaching

NEW YORK -- Don't look now (you're too late, anyway, the preseason is over), but the Grizzlies were the NBA's most improved Canadian outcast during the exhibition schedule, their sole setback to the champion Spurs.

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Oct 23, 2003

Mavs got best of Walker-LaFrentz swap

NEW YORK -- At first aghast, I figured Danny Ainge must be using Rick Pitino as his consigliere.

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Oct 17, 2003

Yao signing with Reebok to have huge impact on market

NEW YORK -- Never has a seven-story man, elite or otherwise, created any noteworthy noise in sneaker sales, not even when Devious Darryl Dawkins tried to get rich in a hurry by advertising a different brand on each foot.

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Oct 9, 2003

Incoming rookies James, Anthony already make an impression on Artest

NEW YORK -- Infamous for his demonic defense and alarming genuineness, Ron Artest recently evaluated the NBA's two newest compulsive scorers after confronting the incoming rookies in Magic Johnson's summer all-star game.

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Sep 25, 2003

Blazers struggling to get roster in shape

NEW YORK -- The best thing about the NFL season is the NBA season is just around the gully, so over the ridge to Grandpa Stern's house we go.

BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT

Sep 14, 2003

Nets want to get rid of Mutombo

NEW YORK -- Alonzo Mourning, the newest member of the New Jersey Nets, hopes he will get the opportunity to play defense alongside Dikembe Mutombo this season on a regular basis like they did as collegians at Georgetown, but it isn't likely to happen.

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