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12:27 AM ET Andrew LopezESPN As fans in Madison Square Garden rose to their feet to give one last round of applause to their New York Knicks, Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young wanted to send the crowd home with one more parting gift. In the final minute of Wednesday’s Game 5, Young sized up Knicks …

In what the franchise prays is not a harbinger, the Knicks initiated the season’s second half in Milwaukee in disastrous form Thursday. After all the hope garnered from their season’s first half, the Knicks looked unrecognizable as they fell behind by 35 points in the fourth quarter. The Bucks, blown out by the Knicks in …

There are no perfect solutions for the Knicks right now, because that is the sentence for a team that for 20 years has wandered in a fugue state. Firing Steve Mills was a necessary decision that also comes a few weeks — or years — too late. There is a perfect candidate to replace Mills, …

OK, so it took a while. As Ben Franklin said, “Make haste slowly.” Just as we were about to give up on Fox’s lead NFL analyst, Troy Aikman, as incurably stiff, dull and speaker-of-the-obvious, he deadpans the best line of the football TV season. Sunday, after the Packers’ Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams hooked up …

The opening day was crazy, and while the second didn’t provide that same bang, it still kept us on the edge of our seats. Kawhi Leonard is probably the last max player left on the market, and we’re all waiting with bated breath for what’ll probably be the most consequential decision of the free agency. …

Free-agent All-NBA star Kevin Durant plans to sign a four-year contract worth up to $164 million to play for the Brooklyn Nets. Durant will join free agents Kyrie Irving and DeAndre Jordan, who also plan to sign with the franchise. Players can officially sign their contracts starting Saturday. Irving will sign for four years in …

The majority of the NBA’s free agents are all awaiting decisions from the top of the class, including from Golden State’s Kevin Durant and Toronto’s Kawhi Leonard. Durant has left his top suitors such as the Warriors, New York Knicks, Brooklyn Nets and LA Clippers guessing, and league sources said no formal meetings have been …

Kevin Durant may have a different path to the Knicks. According to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, the Warriors are floating the idea of signing the injured forward and then later look to trade him in a move that would potentially benefit both Durant and Golden State. The Warriors are the only team in the league that …