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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
May 5, 2010
Hill likely to be a key player in Spurs-Suns series
NEW YORK — The Spurs have ended the Suns' season like clockwork . . . four times in their last five playoff appearances.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 28, 2010
Durant not backing down in duel with Kobe
NEW YORK — A casual acquaintance e-mailed me a couple days ago to complain about the Eastern Conference playoff mismatches, as if I had something to do with the short supply of competition.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 21, 2010
Move by Nets triggers flood of memories
NEW YORK — Play "Misty" for us — the Nets closed the coffin on the Izod Center last week with one more loss.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 14, 2010
Award winners from both East, West needed
NEW YORK — My postseason award winners job would be so much easier if the NBA allowed voters to do it right; my way, in other words. Actually, Major League Baseball originated how to get maximum bang for the buck when announcing individual honors.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 31, 2010
Light sentence for Arenas a complete joke
NEW YORK — This is the last time I help out the authorities.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 24, 2010
Another LeGarie power play set to backfire
NEW YORK — A few years ago, when the Cavaliers were head-hunting for a general manager, resulting in Danny Ferry's hiring, agent Warren LeGarie tried to pressure Nuggets owner E. Stanley Kroenke into giving lame duck GM Kiki Vandeweghe a new contract at a sizable salary spike.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 17, 2010
Dunleavy's firing a surprise move by Clippers
NEW YORK — For those of you not on the Clippers' e-mail list, permit me to recap Mike Dunleavy's unforeseen capsizing last week.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 10, 2010
Lakers starting to look less than invincible
NEW YORK — The Lakers lost a mere 17 games all last season when they won the NBA championship.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 3, 2010
U.S. to host pre-worlds tourney in New York
NEW YORK — The specific formula is not yet official, but plans are far enough along to speculate with great certainty Team USA will headline an international doubleheader at Madison Square Garden in mid-August prior to the FIBA World Championship that commences later that month in Turkey.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 10, 2010
Knicks lose a legend with McGuire's passing
NEW YORK — The easiest columns to write are about people you love.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 3, 2010
Stern letting wild Wizards off way too easy
NEW YORK — Because I almost care, who do you think feels worse right about now, Gilbert Arenas, Javaris Crittenton, the pistol-whipped Wizards or David Stern?
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 27, 2010
Van Gundy the definition of disingenuous
NEW YORK — Jeff Van Gundy's insincerity, his most important product, was on full display Friday throughout ESPN's coverage of the Lakers' victory over the Knicks.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 20, 2010
Arenas, Wizards continue to look clueless
NEW YORK — So, where do we begin today's NBA installment of Pinhead Wizards?
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 13, 2010
Lakers looking to acquire Bosh from Raptors
NEW YORK — Today's NBA Report is 99.9 percent pure basketball, "triggered" by trade winds.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 6, 2010
Arenas deserves lifetime ban for gun incident
NEW YORK — Even in a world long gone mad . . . what an unfathomable, boundary-crossing, guns-in-the-Wizards locker-room Gilbert Arenas-Javaris Crittenton grudge confrontation story.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 30, 2009
Lakers, fans embarrassed on Christmas Day
NEW YORK — Win or lose, Laker fools remain consistently bad sports. Secure a championship at home and they burn the surrounding neighborhood. Have calls go against them in a game already decided in their disfavor and they chuck souvenir foam fingers (I get the imagery) and plastic bottles onto the court.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 23, 2009
Kobe's winner continues L.A. hex on Bucks
NEW YORK — The date was Jan. 9, 1972.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 16, 2009
Donaghy's claims don't stand up to scrutiny
NEW YORK — Originally, Tim Donaghy says he bet on 13 NBA games he refereed. Presently, the contention is 47, all but 10 resulting in wins by the point spread, or by picking the over-under.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 9, 2009
No truth to Harrington-Thomas trade talk
NEW YORK — The mind boggles and the mouse googles:
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 2, 2009
Signing Iverson would be mistake for Philly
NEW YORK — Other than generating some desperately (the operative word) needed excitement among the missing masses and possibly selling enough tickets for the remainder of the 76ers' 5-11 season to rationalize investing in a pro-rated $1.3 million veteran minimum contract, I can't visualize anything positive being derived from Allen Iverson postponing "retirement" to rejoin his original team.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Putin’s war will soon reach Russians’ tax bills
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas, turned to photography, shooting motion while in motion himself, after an injury forced him to give up his career as a professional breakdancer.

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