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Thursday / November 21.
  • Rasheed Wallace Spends Knicks Practice Boxing

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    GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Rasheed Wallace isn’t quite ready to play fullcourt basketball yet, but he looks like he could go a few rounds with Apollo Creed.

    Wallace, 38, spent part of Monday’s Knicks practice off to the side firing punches in boxing gloves while strength and conditioning coach Dave Hancock wore hand mitts.

    Wallace, it should be mentioned, is the NBA’s all-time single-season (41) and career leader (304) in technical fouls.

    “I mean, it’s all geared for conditioning,” Knicks coach Mike Woodson said of Wallace’s boxing techniques. “These guys do a lot of different things around here that we didn’t do when we came up the old-school way. But it’s all conditioning work to better the player, and eventually we’ll get him out on the floor ready to play.”

    Wallace, who last played during the 2009-10 season with the Boston Celtics, took shots with a basketball off to the side after practice was over, and told reporters last week he hopes to be ready for the Nov. 1 season-opener at the Brooklyn Nets.

    “Don’t know yet,” Woodson said. “We’re still monitoring him, we’re still training him off the floor and eventually he’ll be ready to go.”

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    Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle. A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.

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