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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
Jul 2, 2008
Knicks roll the dice with selection of Gallinari
NEW YORK — When you're the Knicks and picking sixth in a top-heavy freshman draft, and your isolated asset (David Lee) and the slot weren't ample inducement (assuming another obscene contract was out of the question) to move up to harvest Derrick Rose, O. J. Mayo or Kevin Love, the inevitable conclusion is singling out an unfinished product.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 25, 2008
Heinsohn: Pierce one of Celts' all-time greats
NEW YORK —In nine years of playing for the Celtics, Tommy Heinsohn, who came into the NBA the same season as Bill Russell (who arrived six weeks late due to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics) and won top rookie honors, averaged 18.6 points and 8.8 rebounds.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 18, 2008
Lakers in tough as Finals return to Boston
LOS ANGELES — Funny, how minor imperfections (and subtle specialties) became pronounced once the Boston Stranglers got their barely breathing opponents in a 3-2 chokehold.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 11, 2008
Jackson always marched to different beat
BOSTON — Phil Jackson couldn't always afford to be unconventional yet he maintained his nonconformity at a high cost anyway.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 4, 2008
Failure to make Finals will cost Saunders job
NEW YORK — Failing to crash the NBA Finals for the third straight season is guaranteed to cost Pistons coach Flip Saunders a fourth try.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 28, 2008
Reinsdorf scared D'Antoni away from Bulls
NEW YORK — Those in the know reveal Jerry Reinsdorf's business-like approach (vs. Donnie Walsh's unchecked enthusiasm) in Mike D'Antoni's recruitment was the major factor for choosing the Knicks over the Bulls.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 21, 2008
Field wide open in race to be GM of Knicks
NEW YORK — Billy King, Billy Knight, Bernie Bickerstaff and a mystery man are the exclusive competition for the Knicks' GM job, it says here.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 14, 2008
D'Antoni not the solution for troubled Knicks
NEW YORK — "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.'' — Albert Einstein
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 8, 2008
Expect discarded, retread coach to replace D'Antoni in Phoenix
Mike D'Antoni to seek gainful employment elsewhere (attempting to manipulate salary relief on $8.5 million obligation), the Suns have confirmed their coach is not invited back for the two years remaining on his contract. Depending on his agent's success at selling D'Antoni to the Knicks and Bulls who have vacancies, and the Raptors, Hawks and Warriors whose split from Sam Mitchell, Mike Woodson and Don Nelson is scarcely inconceivable, his official firing (buyout?) will occur shortly.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 30, 2008
Return to Charlotte would bring Brown's coaching career full circle
NEW YORK — Let's connect the polka dots.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 24, 2008
Suns' mental gaffes inexcusable
NEW YORK — What better time to dramatize then after the first games of the first series of an inexorable playoff season? Beginning with the Spurs-Suns showdown. . .
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 9, 2008
Mark Jackson qualified to coach Knicks
NEW YORK — This may be a first (and a last) in the New York metro area.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 2, 2008
Where will Next Town Brown resurface?
NEW YORK — Why would even the disseminators of fabrication sense Rick Carlisle is a consequential candidate to replace Isiah Thomas as Knicks coach?
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 26, 2008
Williams, Paul top of class at point
NEW YORK — "At best," Mark Jackson appraises, no disrespect intended, "Steve Nash is the NBA's third-best point guard."
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 12, 2008
Absence of Marion affecting Suns
NEW YORK — Should the staggering Suns slip into qualifying as a 50-plus-win lottery team (as opposed to the Nuggets or Warriors), their fans will be astonished to learn this closet consequence:
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 5, 2008
Marion bashers refuse to exit shadows
NEW YORK — Sorry, but no Shawn Marion column today, as advertised, on the grounds one and all insisted on anonymity with regards to his debatable trade for Shaquille O'Neal.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 27, 2008
Cuban steamed over Nowitzki column
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — For those who get off on me being slapped silly, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban branded my disclosure that Avery Johnson broached trading Dirk Nowitzki a "ridiculous assertion."
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 20, 2008
Mavericks wanted to dump Nowitzki
NEW ORLEANS — I was starting to think Jason Kidd would get back together with ex-wife Joumana before the Mavericks.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 13, 2008
Trade for Shaq a bad move by Suns
NEW YORK — At first shudder, Shaquille O Neal's relocation from one retirement village to another triggered the normal atypical knee-jerk reactions:
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 6, 2008
Acquiring Gasol latest coup for Lakers
NEW YORK — Wilt, Kareem, Magic, Jamaal Wilkes, James Worthy, Shaq and Kobe all became Lakers as a consequence of poor or pressured decisions by competing executives.
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.
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.
Kishida defends planned rule to revoke foreigners' residency
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a meeting of the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
Japan concerned over U.S. officials' remarks on atomic bombings
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks to reporters during a news conference in Washington on Thursday.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.
New Taiwan president to set tone for ties with China at inauguration
Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te arrives at the CyberSec 2024 Exhibition in Taipei on Wednesday.
Ishin struggles to set itself apart from other parties
Nippon Ishin no Kai Secretary-General Fumitake Fujita (right) speaks beside Yui Kanazawa, the party's candidate in the Tokyo 15th district by-election on April 28. Nippon Ishin lost in this by-election as well as another in Nagasaki held on the same day.
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.
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.

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