Story on the nightmare of covering the Knicks

If you think your job is rough, check out the plight of the reporters on the Knicks beat.

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Access is minimal and the Knicks minions are making a note of everything that is said in interviews.</a>

 

This Watkins guy sounds like Baghdad Bob.

 

This is the epitome of childish behavior for a media relations department:

 

Amazing that media professionals don't realize that by treating reporters with disdain, they get more of the negative stuff they would like to avoid in the first place.

 

Even though it would never happen, what kind of a statement would it make if the NY print media boycotted the Knicks for a few games. No columns, no gamers, no features. Just a box score in the league page and that's it. It probably wouldn't matter much to the Knicks, who seem like they'd actually want this to happen, but how strong of a statement would that be to the rest of the country & the NBA? Stern would probably be as livid as all get out.

 

Should the Post put an asterisk next to the Knicks on the NBA standings page to label them for "idiocy"?

 

Great, great story.

I'm surprised that the NBA office hasn't gotten involved in this at any level, especially considering it's based in the same city and it's one of the league's highest-profile franchises.

Certainly doesn't look good to anyone on the outside looking in.

 

They'll rig the draft again so the Knicks get the No. 1 pick. It's happened before.

 

I've never seen media members complain so publically about a current beat like that before. It's amazing how they treat Isola.

 

“We all know what it’s like to cover a normal team,” said Mr. Beck, who previously reported on the Lakers for the L.A. Daily News. “Covering the Knicks is so much worse.”

Wow. Just wow. The Shaq-Kobe-Phil Soap Opera du Jour Lakers, the team where beat guys had to chase players into the parking lot in the hope of getting a brief comment as they drove away ... and in comparison to the Knicks that was "a normal team."

 

Maybe the league took pity on Isola, and that's why it hired him to co-host their studio show on game nights on NBA TV.