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.
If you successfully surmised two rounds of the draft were internationally interminable, stay tuned for the rounds and rounds of ridiculousness we're in store for in the coming months (years?) after the NBA's owners...
June 28, 2011 12:00 AM
A permanent friend (no matter what I write about him or those in his profession; yes, there is actually such an animal) is forever telling me not to expect anything out of people, especially those you work for. “That...
June 26, 2011 12:57 AMNobody has gotten closer than Kyrie Irving from coming straight to the pros from high school since the NBA annulled that practice in 2005, requiring a year wait before applying for the draft. Rather than do the...
June 24, 2011 12:00 AM
You'll have to excuse the Good Rumor Man for failing to keep you current of late regarding trade, coaching and draft chatter. I hate when the NBA interrupts my fundamental train of thought and schedules the Finals in...
June 21, 2011 12:00 AM
Marques Haynes' grandfather was a freed Mississippi slave. He fled to Tennessee when his cotton gin was commandeered by locals experiencing a little trouble adapting to a black man owning control over his life, much...
June 19, 2011 12:00 AMHaving just returned from my role as designated heckler at the Anthony Weiner Members Only Mea Culpa Resignation Rotunda, I felt inspired to whip up some final NBA Finals impertinence and pertinence -- with the help of...
June 17, 2011 12:00 AM
MIAMI -- Moments before Game 6 began, it became evident the NBA Finals would soon conclude in a "Dead Heat." No performer with any pride would dare try to follow Marc Anthony's unparalleled interpretation of the...
June 14, 2011 12:00 AM
MIAMI -- Long ago, be fore mindless reality TV ("The Decision") and premature jubilation about "five, six or seven" NBA championships and targeting oneself for full-frontal assaults, snipers and drone drops, fans used...
June 12, 2011 12:00 AMDALLAS -- In a charity event last August, Marie Jackson, assisted by Lucille O'Neal, coached the NBA mothers to a 24-12 victory over the NFL mothers at sold-out Orlando's Olympia High School. Sheryl Howard played....
June 10, 2011 12:00 AM
DALLAS -- One way or the other, Udonis Haslem -- health permitting and perseverance a given -- feels he was predestined to play in the 2011 Finals, either as Dirk Nowitzki's sidekick or sealed siding. Haslem was...
June 07, 2011 12:00 AMDALLAS — Donnie Walsh’s most sacrilegious compadre predicts Walsh’s semester break at his Indianapolis home will not agree with him. “The fresh air will kill him within a week,” Mel Daniels says. Boredom might do him...
June 05, 2011 1:39 AMFor the mostly taste ful 19 NBA seasons Shaquille O'Neal had it goin' on, what struck me most was the homage paid to him on "Gimme the Loot." Oh, sure, Shaq's legacy is richly endowed in assorted spheres and...
June 03, 2011 12:00 AM
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 AM
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