Sports records are made to be broken, but in these cases, New York athletes have set records that are so impressive, they won't be broken anytime soon.
Being a coach's son or daughter, it has its advantages and disadvantages. When you are a coaching legend's child expectations can often be, well, legendary. Syracuse hoops fans had some of those projections satisfied on Tuesday, when their head coach, Jim Boeheim's sons took the court in the NBA Summer League for the Detroit Pistons.
After the Brooklyn Nets disastrous season ended prematurely after the first round of the NBA playoffs at the hands of his ex-team, the Boston Celtics, Kyrie Irving spoke about how he Kevin Durant were going to steer the ship with General Manager Sean Marks and owner Joe Tsai
Michael Jordan has been known in his older age to be more private than when he was actively playing in the NBA. Famously at one of his camps if he missed three shots then the whole camp would get free Jordans and he responded with "F**k them kids". Well, it seems that Jordan kept that same energy with some kids who asked him for a photo.
Some people are just generous by nature. In a very cool act of kindness on Sunday, an entire New York City restaurant found out just how benevolent a particular NBA Hall of Fame player can be.
NBA Hall of Famer and TV commentator Charles Barkley has never been shy with his assessments, nor should he be given his occupation. However on Wednesday, while he was promoting a celebrity golf tournament, he took aim some pretty low hanging fruit, the New York Knicks. The franchise's president, Leon Rose is already feeling the heat for the roster he has assembled. Now it is clear that the basketball community's patience with Rose's plan is wearing thin.
For every draft boom, there is a draft bust, and some of the largest draft "busts" have taken the stage wearing a New York sports team's logo. Here are ten busts.
Five years later, the future of daily fantasy sports in the state is up-in-the-air, and its fate rests in the gavels of the New York Court of Appeals in Albany.