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Peter Vecsey
Peter Vecsey of the New York Post is the most prominent basketball columnist in the world. He has covered the NBA for the past 30 years, and has been an expert analyst on both network and cable television in the United States. His inside information and access to the league's top players, coaches and executives have helped earn him recognition as one of the "Most Powerful People in Sports" by The Sporting News.
For Peter Vecsey's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Oct 7, 2004
Knicks distracted by in-house fighting
CHARLESTON, S.C -- If it's such a great honor to wear a New York uniform, as Isiah Thomas preached to Shandon Anderson last Friday through the media, how come he decided to retire when the Pistons traded him to the Knicks rather than try it on for size?
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jul 2, 2004
Don't expect Shaq deal to happen fast
NEW YORK -- So, Kobe Bryant finally has a start date (Aug. 27) for his Eagle scout trial. This gives him exactly two months from today to unite the community and divide community property.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 25, 2004
Trying to pacify Kobe has caused chaos
NEW YORK -- In my concocted dictionary an enabler is someone who waters the weeds.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 19, 2004
Selfishness short-circuited Lakers
NEW YORK -- If it helps them to sleep better at night thinking the result of The NBA Finals would be reversed had Karl Malone remained healthy, Laker fans, by all means, are encouraged to dream on.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 5, 2004
Don't count out blue-collar Detroit
LOS ANGELES -- To be perfectly prickly, nobody outside this city's limits, exempting Yankee fans, perhaps, likes the Lakers. How can we when the Lakers don't like themselves?
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 27, 2004
How many teams will be willing to take a chance on Kobe?
NEW YORK -- Will Kobe Bryant's August trial impact his impending free agency?
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 22, 2004
McGrady looking at Suns, Rockets, Spurs, Lakers for future
NEW YORK -- For obvious reasons, Tracy McGrady has narrowed his choices to play next season -- or the following one, at the latest, should the Magic incomprehensibly fail to arrange a trade -- to four teams, all of whom flaunt a centrifugal force.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 13, 2004
Spurs, Pistons create 'mother of all moribund monstrosities'
LOS ANGELES -- And you thought the NFL was "One for All, All for One." That was until Camp David sent out that "make-these-series-competitive-or-else" memo . . . and the Spurs and Pistons compassionately complied.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 1, 2004
Hall of Famer Yardley engaged in different kind of battle
NEW YORK -- Contrary to conventional conviction, George Yardley's induction into Springfield's Hall of Fame in '96, leading the NBA in scoring (27.8) and becoming the league's first player to amass 2,000 points in a (72-game) season (Wilt doubled that output four years later) did not compare with his greatest basketball achievement.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 29, 2004
Knicks a long way from being a factor
NEW YORK -- Say this much for the Knicks, at least they weren't swept by the Red Sox. But, really, what did you expect?
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 24, 2004
Barkley's commentary makes him look like a buffoon
NEW YORK -- As most of us with a pulse know all too well, Charles Barkley rarely says something that isn't stone stupid unless he has impounded somebody else's original thought. And TNT couldn't be prouder presenting its Master of the Oblivious.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 15, 2004
Pacers' O'Neal gets nod as NBA's Most Valuable Player
NEW YORK -- "Did you ever have to make up your mind, pick up on one and leave the other behind? It's not often easy and not often kind, did you ever have to make up your mind?"
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 8, 2004
Thomas, Bird bury hatchet over messy ending in Indy
NEW YORK -- Contrary to popular perception, Tuesday's Knicks-Pacers game at Conseco Field House was not the first time Isiah Thomas and Larry Bird were under the same roof since Indiana's president elected to fire his shocked coach and replace him with Rick Carlisle.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 2, 2004
Warriors setting up Musselman as scapegoat for poor season
NEW YORK -- Golden State Warriors President Robert Rowell, whoever this faceless, dubiously qualified phantom may be, was quoted last week contending his team has "under-achieved."
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 25, 2004
Grizzlies defying expectations
NEW YORK -- Let's have a big round of applause for Hubie Brown, whose Grizzlies are an astounding 43-26. Other than team president Jerry West, who unflinchingly branded his team "dangerous" to me prior to the exhibition season, I imagine no one else figured Memphis, which began last season 0-8 under Sidney Lowe, would be entrenched in sixth place in the bloodcurdling Western Conference.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 18, 2004
76ers mismatch turns ugly
NEW YORK -- So, the 76ers' fading franchise player and the NBA's all-time inflexible interim coach are at war again. It's a mismatch the prohibitive favorite can't hope to win.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 11, 2004
Bucks not getting the praise
NEW YORK -- Two superb NBA stories of late implicate the Milwaukee Bucks, which is why you've read or heard precious little about them.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 4, 2004
'Little Noxious' needs to rethink strategy
NEW YORK -- Gary Payton is so concerned about getting more minutes (and touches), he might want to reassess the value of being expelled from games; Little Noxious, it deserves highlighting, leads the league with four ejections.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 26, 2004
NBA looks bad after Pistons fiasco
NEW YORK -- The NBA just took one giant step forward for madness.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 19, 2004
Bad-boy Wallace unlikely to stay with Hawks long
LOS ANGELES -- The biggest surprise regarding All-Star Weekend is Magic Johnson didn't win MVP.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Yen’s fragility raises specter of a new currency war in Asia
Suspected intervention to drag the yen off a 34-year low against the dollar is already seen as unlikely to have a lasting effect if Japan continues alone.
Online booking for Mount Fuji climb to open on May 20
Visitors climb the slopes of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak at 3,776 meters. From May 20, climbers will have access to a new online booking system for Mount Fuji's most popular Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture.
In Japan, 68,000 people over 65 projected to die alone at home this year
As Japan grapples with its population's rapid aging, supporting people who live and age alone is looming larger on the policy agenda.
Ex-METI bureaucrat given 10-year sentence for drugging and raping women
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.
Japan's logistics firms seek partnerships to cope with driver shortage
Japan Post CEO Tetsuya Senda (right) and his Seino Transportation counterpart Satoshi Takahashi announce their companies' agreement on joint long-haul truck operations, in Tokyo on Thursday.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.
Unlike 10 years ago, Japan's new security bill sparks little debate
The Lower House starts discussing a security clearance bill on April 19 in Tokyo.

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