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.
It's downright lamentable, though outright predictable, not a single soul belonging to LeBron James' wagon-circled, anarchy-free business unit was wise enough to persuade the Drama King to handle his final hours of free...
July 11, 2010 12:00 AMWhat does it say about Le Bron James that he choose Miami? That the Unconquering Hero no longer believes in himself -- at least as far as being able to will a team to his first (of many) championships without help...
July 09, 2010 12:00 AM
Let’s get a little ahead of ourselves here. Say, Chris Bosh suddenly comes to his $enses and, as a willing adult, gives his consent to participate in the sign-and-trade arrangement essentially worked out between the...
July 07, 2010 2:46 AM
Lucky for Michael Jordan, Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf and his entrepreneurial entourage tutored him on how to make millions beyond what the Bulls paid him, otherwise he never would have become rich enough to buy the...
July 04, 2010 12:00 AM
As the NBA begins its seducing season, the most sizzling summer in the league’s 64-year-old history, it’s important to be aware of an obscured truth relating to the fraternity of authentic Hall of Fame players who...
July 01, 2010 4:05 AM
Post columnist Peter Vecsey forecasts the next stops for the top 10 NBA free agents: Before attempting to project where the NBA's top 10 free agents figure to find fairly gainful employment over the next couple of...
July 01, 2010 12:00 AM
Many moons ago, when Manute Bol briefly played for the University of Bridgeport, before joining the NBA as Washington’s 1985 second-round draft pick, the 7-foot-6 Sudanese skyscraper showed Rod Michaud his passport. It...
June 22, 2010 2:50 AM
An hour or so following one of the most revolting blights in NBA history, the infamous Pacers-Pistons basket-brawl, Ron Artest and I exchanged several text messages. Our relationship had become almost exclusively father...
June 20, 2010 12:00 AMWAS it just me, or did I sense something personal in little Jeffrey Van Gundy's ABC diatribe before Game 6 about critics "especially in the media" being way off base in asserting Kobe Bryant should trust his teammates...
June 18, 2010 12:00 AM
While waiting for white smoke to billow from the roof of Tom Izzo's mouth, let's chat about the mundane matter of the Finals. So, who do you think sat next to Kobe Bryant on the Lakers' non-commercial flight to Los...
June 15, 2010 12:00 AMIn late March, I received an e- mail from Sam Stith alerting me his younger brother's health was in decline. Tom, one of New York City's all-time top 10 schoolboy stars, had been hospitalized on Long Island for a...
June 14, 2010 12:00 AM
Today's missive is spon sored by the letter "P" -- as in "Pivotal." If I had a buffalo head nickel for every time the word "pivotal" was/is used leading up tonight's Game 5, I would have doubled my investment in BP...
June 13, 2010 12:00 AMGiven more time and fewer re sources, Rod Thorn probably could've made a worse coaching choice than Avery Johnson . . . but damned if I can imagine who that micro-managing, playoff-pressure-leaking megalomaniac might...
June 11, 2010 12:00 AM
An appreciably well-wired roundball entrepreneur believes LeBron James will re-up with the Cavaliers for three years, a possibility he almost certainly would not entertain had Mike Brown been retained -- something GM...
June 08, 2010 12:00 AM
I've long envied the blessed legions that played for John Wooden and bonded with him for so long. I've always been jealous of Bill Walton and Gail Goodrich and Jamaal Wilkes and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and so many...
June 06, 2010 12:00 AMPau Gasol can't be just all right for an off night without having his testosterone quantity questioned. Yet, season after season, Gasol's value pack is unquestionable. In the final analysis, all that counts is that...
June 04, 2010 7:41 AM
Since the NBA failed to give me game action for Memorial Day (see "Massacre" at Boston Garden, circa 1985, and "Miracle" at the Alamodome in 1999), I shall dutifully look ahead to the Finals. Say this much for the...
June 01, 2010 12:00 AM
Column contributor Irwin Sirotta wants Knicks coach Mike D'An toni to know how greatly indebted the Celtics and their faithful are to him for his overly generous contribution. "First Rajon Rondo, then Nate Robinson...
May 30, 2010 12:00 AMAs a paying customer or merely a (basketball) fan, there's nothing better regarding any game, but especially a playoff series, than to see the contestants have to sweat it out physically and mentally. The first...
May 28, 2010 12:00 AMFinally, if my homemade Hubble telescope is seeing images precisely, a new form of life, other than the Celtics and Lakers, has been sighted in the NBA playoffs . . . . . . And that was before a species re...
May 25, 2010 12:00 AM
Let the crepe hangers belabor the Suns’ unshielded playdates with the indiscriminately terminal Lakers. As usual, I prefer to accentuate the affirmative by identifying an intangible in Game 2. With 6:18 left in the...
May 23, 2010 3:53 AMAmar'e Stoudemire is proba bly pretty happy with his point production (20.5 avg.) against the Lakers in the Suns' two decisive setbacks. But not as happy, I suspect, as Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom (44-for-66 from the...
May 21, 2010 12:00 AM
So, according to widespread reports whose source appears to have been on one conference call, agent William Wesley is trying to sell client John Calipari and LeBron James to the Bulls, Nets and/or Clippers as an entry....
May 18, 2010 12:00 AM
“My life, your entertainment You watch it while I live it You wait for me to lose it I guess I’m just here for your amusement.”— rapper T.I. from “My Life, Your Entertainment” Have you ever seen a city turn so fast...
May 16, 2010 2:53 AMAnd, just think, the Cel tics ended LeBron James' season and quite possibly his Cavaliers' career without Nate Robinson. If you were one of the few who missed last night's 94-85 inequality, don't get fooled by...
May 14, 2010 12:00 AMLast night's Cavaliers- Celtics showdown at sundown promised to be so good I treated myself to a pregame meal and fastened a cell phone in each ear. This is what I heard: In issues relating to the Van Gundys,...
May 14, 2010 12:00 AM
If you're keeping score (and, really, that's pathetic), Mike Brown's refusal to allow LeBron James to cover Rajon Rondo late in Game 4 was the first time since James joined the Cavaliers, he has had to ask twice for...
May 11, 2010 12:00 AM
Every so often in a game, but more likely in prac tice, the lefty-dealing Goran Dragic would do something freaky with the ball or reveal an unearthly move comparable to the inimitable Manu Ginobili and his Suns...
May 09, 2010 12:00 AMYou gotta hand it to the NBA ... at the time of year when the game's supposed to be the thing, it ain't. And I'm not even talking about rounds that drag like RuPaul. Play three games in four nights during the...
May 07, 2010 12:00 AM
We know 76ers president Ed Stefanski is interviewing coaching candidates: Doug Collins and Avery Johnson so far, with more on tap, including, reportedly, Mark Jackson and Sam Mitchell. What we don't know is who's...
May 04, 2010 12:00 AM
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