Peter Vecsey has been the Post’s NBA columnist since 1976. Inducted into the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame, at Holcombe Rucker he coached two championships in the early ’70s (Julius Erving, Charlie Scott, Billy Paultz, Joe DePre, Ollie Taylor) and two more in the early ’80s (Louis Orr, Sam Worthen). A graduate of Archbishop Molloy High School, Peter spent two years in the Army (1965-67) as a member of the Airborne and Special Forces.
Rather than wait until after the fact, I'd like to take this opportunity to apologize beforehand for everything offensive I plan to say, write and do during The Finals. Yes, silly head, David Stern is, too, staging...
May 31, 2011 12:00 AMJohn Calipari couldn't believe his awful luck when he stepped into an almost empty hotel elevator a week ago in Sarasota (site of the Dick Vitale Gala) and the door closed before he recognized its lone occupant....
May 29, 2011 12:00 AMLast night’s crumble by the Thunder was worse than when Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. … ….Worse than when the Walls of Jericho tumbled… ….Worse than Cool Hand Luke’s failure to communicate. You’d think by now last...
May 24, 2011 11:25 AM
Projectile dysfunc tion, according to word of mouth, can deflate and depress a team more than anything that ails it. Yes, it is up to the players to perform. Still, the coach and management must prescribe...
May 24, 2011 12:00 AM
SARASOTA, Fla. —The buzz name on the lips of the coaching civilization that migrated here in flocks Friday night from all over the country and helped raise over $1 million for cancer research at the sixth annual Dick...
May 22, 2011 12:05 AM
It's not tricky to figure out why effervescent Magic Johnson and inspirational Chick Hearn were the first Lakers sculptured outside Staples Center. Creative oomph on the floor and in the booth, both were favorites of...
May 20, 2011 12:00 AMIn Dirk Nowitzki, who barely touched twine in his obnoxiously-efficient Lakers’ performance, and Kevin Durant, who rolled the Nuggets and Grizzlies in close-outs for 41 and 39 points, this Spaghetti Western Final...
May 17, 2011 11:30 AM
How perfectly surreal! On the same day a glowing article appeared on Dirk Nowitzki in the Dallas Morning News, there was an AP story alongside on Robert "Tractor" Traylor's overturned life. In the 1998 draft,...
May 17, 2011 12:00 AM
With the Mavericks resting for what seems to be about a month, the Grizzlies and Thunder — brashly disregarding the NBA’s curfew for newborn contenders — return to Oklahoma City today for the privilege to get posterized...
May 15, 2011 2:17 AMIntriguing to note that Shaquille O'Neal, speaking to the Boston Globe, no less, Nov. 8, 2002, didn't quite follow guidelines he set for himself. He declared he would never do what an NBA center-fold was doing . . ....
May 13, 2011 12:00 AM
In the 1973 conference fi nals, Game 3, John Havlicek was chasing Bill Bradley through a network of picks when somehow he smashed into a brutal Dave DeBusschere screen in front of the Celtics bench. His shoulder...
May 10, 2011 12:00 AM
How weird and wonderful; here we are, forsythia is on sale for 50 percent off, and we're on the threshold of talking about "next season" regarding the Lakers instead of "next series." How deep is the doodoo the...
May 08, 2011 12:35 AMUnlike players and coaches, I don't have to take one game at a time. In fact, I've seen more than enough. I'm already looking ahead two series and it's impossible not to envision a 2006 Finals replay. No offense to...
May 06, 2011 12:00 AM
When I worked for NBC, TNT and NBATV, the league office -- in the name of David Stern -- would go ballistic if the network was late so much as a nanosecond returning to a game that was back in progress. I can't...
May 03, 2011 12:00 AMThe beauty of the NBA's best- of-seven playoff format is the best teams almost always advance from the first round. As Spurs coach Gregg Popovich underscored in his post-series press conference, intimate observers...
May 01, 2011 12:00 AMSometimes, I really wonder. The rest of my waking hours are spent wondering why I care at all anymore. Specifically after seeing something so disbelieving as the last-second present the Grizzlies went out of...
April 29, 2011 12:00 AM
Logic decrees the vital judgments facing the Knicks by Friday regarding Chauncey Billups' 2011-12 salary option and whether to keep Mike D'Antoni on retainer for the final guaranteed year of his contract are Donnie...
April 26, 2011 12:00 AM
Given the physical and emotional condition of An thony and the Immaterials coming into Game 3, was there really any doubt Knicks fans would wake up yesterday with tears on their pillows and pain in their hearts?...
April 24, 2011 12:00 AMIf it weren't for Carmelo Anthony's brain drain at the end of Game 1, Tuesday's command playoff performance would've compelled a retraction today of my stance that the Knicks gave up too much for him, if not the part...
April 22, 2011 12:00 AM
It's like Roseanne Connor's father-in-law told his son: "Work smart, Danny, not hard." Once upon a time, when the Knicks were winning and competing for championships, the coaches and players were celebrated for out...
April 19, 2011 12:00 AM
While gathering insight, information and irony from my column contributors for this NBA playoff preview, it occurs to me that Cathie Black lasted longer in the classroom than I did. Too bad their shoulders weren’t...
April 17, 2011 1:19 AM
As sure as Kobe Bryant is underwriting the next Pride parade, the Knicks have what it takes to upset the Celtics, it says here. But no matter which team advances to Round 2, the series is guaranteed to leave...
April 15, 2011 12:00 AMPost NBA columnist Peter Vecsey previews the Eastern Conference playoffs, including his analysis of the Knicks-Celtics series which begins Sunday in Boston. <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"...
April 14, 2011 6:35 AM
With the irregular season about shot, it's time to break up this space's monotony and cast votes instead of aspersions. MVP: I pull the lever for the player who recurrently works wonders for teammates and his team --...
April 12, 2011 12:00 AM
A friend of mine is convinced a minimum of seven members of the Hall of Fame committee (nominees require 18 of 24 votes to gain induction) has Jamaal Wilkes confused with John Wilkes Booth. “Who are these voters?”...
April 10, 2011 12:31 AMJames Dolan’s reluctance to pick up Donnie Walsh’s $5 million option for next season the moment the Knicks qualified for the playoffs says it all about where this shadowy situation is headed. Instead of earning as...
April 08, 2011 12:00 AM
What do the Suns, Cavaliers and Celtics have in common? In three straight seasons now, they all pinned their prom bouquet on Shaquille O'Neal. Google it if you don't recall what happened to the Suns and Cavs. As for...
April 05, 2011 12:00 AM
There was a 25-year period of time where I knew a lot about every NBA referee, had a drink at the bar or the curb with many and partied/gambled alongside the degenerates. Over the last decade and a half, the new...
April 03, 2011 12:10 AMFather, forgive me, for I know not what I do. How ghastly is Gilbert Arenas' play in general -- in particular against the Knicks the other night, filling in for Jameer Nelson? He actually had me feeling sorry for...
April 01, 2011 12:00 AM
Regardless of who was re sponsible for acquiring Carmelo Anthony, fact is, the Knicks would not have been able to parade him to the press, and James Dolan would not have felt justified to inflate ticket prices with an...
March 29, 2011 12:00 AM
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