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.
Connie Hawkins said I’m the first person who ever admitted not being at the old Garden when undefeated Boys High nearly got sideswiped by Wingate High in the 1960 PSAL semis, arguably the most ardently anticipated...
March 14, 2010 5:10 AMFor those of you not on the Toenail Clippers' e-mail list, permit me to recap Mike Dunleavy's unforeseen capsizing late Monday afternoon. LA severed heads with its general manager (and used-to-be coach) the media...
March 12, 2010 12:00 AM
It would be a sacrilege not to begin today's blather with doubly dangerous Dallas. Winners of 12 straight, the Mavericks, strictly offensive a moment ago, are No. 2 in the Spaghetti Western standings after last...
March 09, 2010 12:00 AM
This is not the first time Sha quille O'Neal's right thumb has been damaged and in need or repair. I was at an Orlando-Miami game during the 1995-96 season when Matt Geiger hammered him across the hands before he left...
March 07, 2010 12:00 AMI'm fairly flummoxed. What compelled Knicks team president Donnie Walsh to speak up for coach Mike D'Antoni, who appears to need a few sessions with Ray Handley on how to handle the New York media? Why the sudden...
March 05, 2010 12:00 AM
It takes one to rate one, so that makes me eminently qualified to lump Reggie Miller among the NBA's all-time oddballs. While Indiana Bones vacillated from being accommodating, caring and kind to inaccessible,...
March 02, 2010 12:00 AM
The specific formula is not yet official, but plans are far enough along to specu late with great certainty Team USA will forefront an international doubleheader at Madison Square Garden in mid-August before the World...
February 28, 2010 12:00 AMShortly after Clippers general manager Mike Dunleavy stepped down as coach, Fox Sports circulated a preposterous report that Los Angeles had "reached out" to Isiah Thomas regarding every front-office position of...
February 26, 2010 12:00 AM
As long as Sunday's educated speculation in this space regarding rising free agents Kobe Bryant and Phil Jackson is still alive, let's advance it a bit. Say Lakers owner Jerry Buss decides to impeach his Hall of...
February 23, 2010 12:00 AM
Until Kobe Bryant officially signs a Lakers' extension -- in the works almost as long as the construction of the Second Avenue subway -- I'm guessing he'd be another rising free agent the Knicks may be interested...
February 21, 2010 12:00 AMIf I were David Stern, I immediately would declare Every Day to be Trade Deadline Day. It's fascinating that a league whose irregular season is chock full of apathy, abysmal play and plea bargains, attracts so many...
February 19, 2010 12:00 AM
Cant' wait for the NBA trade deadline to expire day after tomorrow . . . or, as we call it, "prisoner exchange." I'm getting groggy trying to follow the perpetual bouncing rumors that have everyone in the NBA's...
February 16, 2010 12:00 AMYou have got to be extremely wary of sources claiming they're privy to the preferences of Mikhail Prokhorov about anything or anyone. Come on, other than commissioner David Stern, who in this country would the...
February 14, 2010 12:00 AMLose or lose, the 4-48 Nets have had no problem this season attracting attention. What's especially charming is their capacity to get entangled in two or three webs concurrently, even when blameless and even when the...
February 12, 2010 12:00 AM
The second easiest column to write is about people I loathe . . . or, at least those who try to pull loathsome stunts on someone who deserves far better. Have you read the preposterous things being said about Del...
February 09, 2010 12:00 AM
The easiest columns to write are about people you love. No reaching fouls. No nonsense. No censoring concerns. No painful creative thought process. No substance search. Just a refresher course or two to round up...
February 07, 2010 12:00 AMNOW THAT the local football season is over, I can put away my Jim Turner jersey and give my undivided attention deficit to basket cases. Here's the thing about Gilbert Arenas' Washington Post op-ed mea culpa . . ....
February 05, 2010 12:00 AM
In the riptide created by hypothesis New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may try to wring $7.5 million from the Nets for approval to relocate after this season from the Izod Center to the Prudential Center, owner Bruce...
February 02, 2010 12:00 AM
In the riptide created by the hypothesis New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may try to wring $7.5 million from the Nets for approval to relocate after this season from the Izod Center to the Prudential Center, owner Bruce...
February 02, 2010 12:00 AM
If it’s true the Cavaliers are interested in acquiring Amar’e Stoudemire, e-mails Rasheed McCorvey, “they must have forgotten how stifled he felt playing alongside Shaq.” Genuine curiosity in fact exists, I’m informed....
January 31, 2010 1:57 AMBecause I almost care, who do you think feels worse right about now -- Gilbert Arenas, Javaris Crittenton, the pistol-whipped Wizards, the Nail Clippers or David Stern? Age before unsightliness, I always advocate....
January 29, 2010 12:00 AM
The Lakers stopped by the White House yesterday to meet President Obama, whose approval rating is within the margin of error of the NBA team down the street. Ah, those wonderful Pinhead Wizards of yours....
January 26, 2010 12:00 AM
At the risk of accentuating my limitations even more outside my sheltered NBA existence and inviting the wrath of colleague Tim Sullivan by trespassing onto his college beat, I want to weigh in Fordham’s coaching...
January 24, 2010 2:28 AMThe NBA announced its All-Star starters last night in an election that shocked the Commonwealth. As my faithful parishioners have known for decades, I have an unwavering precept against losers being invited to...
January 22, 2010 12:00 AM
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. --Spent a couple hours in the mischievous presence of Connie Hawkins on Saturday at Turf Paradise for the sixth running of the Cotton Fitzsimmons Mile. Scores of current (Tom Ambrose, Tom Chambers,...
January 19, 2010 12:00 AM
SCOTTSDALE -- I would rather watch Manu Ginobili go scoreless than 98 percent of the league get career highs. Wednesday night against the Thunder, the Spurs' ingenious acrobat treated us to the most incomprehensible,...
January 17, 2010 12:00 AMSo, where do we begin to day's NBA installment of Pinhead Wizards? Well, I guess we might want to start with Gilbert Arenas being charged with a felony for carrying an unlicensed gun outside his residence or place...
January 15, 2010 12:00 AM
Every now and then, Jayson Williams touches base by cell or by text. A couple years ago or so, we had an unusually lengthy conversation about life (no, not mine), his ailing father -- more commonly known as "my best...
January 12, 2010 12:00 AM
As promised, today’s column is pure basketball, triggered by trade winds. A Lakers source told me the team had its sights set high, as usual, and planned to target the possible acquisition of Chris Bosh when it got...
January 10, 2010 3:32 AM"Bad decisions lead to last decisions." -- DMX SO, David Stern had an epiphany on the Feast of the Epiphany and went from indecisive to indefinite. Mazel Tov. Apparently, the one person who had the power to...
January 08, 2010 12:00 AM
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