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    • Breaking News, Knicks

    GREENBURGH, N.Y. — When his good friend LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers receive their NBA championship rings during a ceremony Tuesday night at Quicken Loans Arena, Carmelo Anthony knows what emotions will be running through his body.

    “I mean, wishing that that was me,” Anthony said on the eve of the Knicks’ season opener. “I think all type of emotions kind of go through you when you seeing that, and especially on somebody else’s court. But we’ll get over that, I’ll get over that quick. Once it’s time to go, it’s time to go. You’re not really thinking about that.”

    The Knicks haven’t won an NBA title since 1973. Anthony, 32, has never won one.

    And as long as James resides in the Eastern Conference, Anthony’s path to an NBA title will likely go through the “Chosen One.”

    Knicks

    WEST POINT, N.Y. –– The Knicks’ decision to hold training camp at West Point for a third straight year has inspired split opinions within the team on matters related to current events.

    Veteran Joakim Noah came out Friday and announced he had skipped a team dinner with Cadets on Thursday night because he’s opposed to war, while rookie Marshall Plumlee, a member of the Army reserves, told me he thinks it was a great idea to hold camp at West Point.

    “It’s hard for me a little bit,” Noah said Friday afternoon, according to Newsday. “I have a lot of respect for the kids who are out here fighting. But it’s hard for me to understand why we have to go to war, why kids have to kill kids around the world? So I have mixed feelings about being here.

    “I’m very proud of this country. I love America, but I just don’t understand kids killing kids around the world.”

    Knicks

    WEST POINT, N.Y. — Joakim Noah isn’t afraid to mix it up with LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers — and Carmelo Anthony thinks that’s exactly what the Knicks will need to compete with the NBA champions.

    Coincidentally enough, the Knicks will open the regular season in Cleveland on Oct. 25 when the Cavs will be feted with their NBA championship rings.

    “You ain’t got to worry about that with Joakim, I mean he gonna bring it,” Anthony said Wednesday after the first day of training camp at West Point, which was also Noah’s first practice with the team after he became the father of a baby girl on Tuesday.

    “If you’re not on his team, you’re the enemy and I think with that mentality, that’s going to kind of trickle down to everyone else.”

    Knicks, NBA

    NEW YORK (AP) – NBA players aren’t just worried about their teams as they start a new season.

    They’re concerned for their country.

    The usual basketball clichés that dominate media days gave way to serious talk about social injustice and violence in communities, with players wanting to be involved in finding solutions but acknowledging they don’t know yet how.

    “Some of the things that I’ve been addressing over this past summer, I think we’re still in the same state. I think it’s actually getting worse and it will continue to get worse,” Knicks All-Star Carmelo Anthony said Monday. “We still have to kind of keep the conversations going.”

    Knicks

    WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The Knicks are set to open training camp on Tuesday, but don’t ask Carmelo Anthony what type of offense the team will run under first-year coach Jeff Hornacek.

    “I honestly don’t know what this offense is going to be,” Anthony said Monday at Knicks’ Media Day. “I think everybody is speculating something. I honestly don’t know. I haven’t talked to Jeff about what type of offense we’re gonna run, what we’re going to be doing.”

    Hornacek is on record saying the triangle “will be part of our offense.” He was hired by President Phil Jackson in part because of his familiarity with the triangle offense from playing for former Phoenix Suns coach Cotton Fitzsimmons, a disciple of triangle founder Tex Winter.

    But Hornacek also ran an up-tempo attack and utilized multiple point guards during his tenure in Phoenix.

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