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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 23, 2007
Van Gundy has history of twisting words
NEW YORK — The Houston Chronicle makes it appear Jeff Van Gundy got shafted by messenger Daryl Morey, claiming the only just installed GM knew all along the Rockets' exiled coach wanted to continue for at least another season.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 16, 2007
Nets nearly dealt Kidd to Lakers
NEW YORK — President Rod Thorn's "bold" admission last week that he tried to trade Jason Kidd to the Lakers right up until the deadline is a dead giveaway the Nets guard was intimately involved in New Jersey's game plan.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 9, 2007
Van Gundy to blast off from Rockets
NEW YORK — Jeff Van Gundy has taken another walk to the hot dog stand.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
May 2, 2007
Warriors expose Mavs' flaws
NEW YORK — Obviously, after warning in the playoff preview the Warriors were the worst imaginable matchup for the Mavericks I can't be vaguely surprised Golden State is providing such legit competition.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 25, 2007
Nuggets, Bulls to pull upsets in 1st round
NEW YORK -- The playoffs -- the NBA's bridge abutment between the high drama of the regular season and the cold sweat of Secaucus -- are once again upon us.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 18, 2007
Outlook not very promising for Knicks
NEW YORK -- A presence in the paint, Eddy Curry is even more of a presence at the plate. He's the only player I've ever seen gain weight on a break and I don't mean commercial.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 11, 2007
McAdoo deserves shot as head coach
NEW YORK -- In 1973 American agent Richard Kaner hooked up virtual unknown Dan Peterson to work the sidelines for Virtus Bologna, Italy.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 4, 2007
Coaching carousel likely to be especially busy in offseason
NEW YORK -- An always informed source tells me Sam Mitchell may decide to leave Toronto when his contract expires at season's end and sign on with the Bobcats.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 29, 2007
Prince James should not be close to action at Cavs games
NEW YORK -- The camera attested to LeBron James' sensitivity the other night when the Knicks were in Cleveland, zeroing on him as he delicately tucked a folded towel to cushion the head of toddler, James, Jr., who was laying in front of the Cavaliers bench.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 21, 2007
Kobe's 65 proof he's Picasso on court
NEW YORK -- Since Kobe Bryant was an adolescent he has been consumed with visions of majesty.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 14, 2007
Patterson got raw deal from Blazers
NEW YORK -- In the judgment of billionaire Paul Allen, the last year of Steve Patterson's contract as the Blazers president/alternate governor/GM did not merit being exercised. This further confirms why I'll never be in position to make such weighty NBA decisions.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 7, 2007
Wizards-Warriors finish strange as it gets
NEW YORK -- Sunday's one-point Wizards' win over the Warriors was one of the most bizarre finishes in NBA history.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 28, 2007
Bird's memories of D.J.
NEW YORK -- How wretchedly ironic Dennis Johnson, 52, dropped dead from a heart attack on the day of the NBA's trading deadline.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 21, 2007
Warriors trying to bring Kidd home
LAS VEGAS -- Cheerless to say, yet indisputably reasonable, in all likelihood, we've seen the last of Jason Kidd in a Nets uniform.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 14, 2007
Time for Nets to dump Kidd, Carter
NEW YORK -- If it's not already a living lock, the time has come, the walrus says, for the 25-27 Nets to make a command decision today -- not tomorrow, not next week and definitely long before the Feb. 22 trade deadline, when any leverage they may own now will be lessened or lost -- to deal Jason Kidd and Vince Carter.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 7, 2007
Magic drops ball with on-air comments
NEW YORK -- Better to be a wise ass than a dumb ass, that's my policy. Magic Johnson takes the opposite approach.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 31, 2007
Nets likely to move Carter, maybe Kidd
NEW YORK -- Unlike the meaningful conversation the Bulls and Grizzlies are engaged in regarding Pau Gasol, nothing of any substance occurred recently when the Nets and Clippers threw out numerous names in two trade discussions.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 24, 2007
World champs star Gasol on trade block
NEW YORK -- Earlier this season I revealed Boston had offered Memphis its choice of any combination of Celtics for Pau Gasol.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 17, 2007
C-Webb never had shot with Spurs
NEW YORK -- Evidently Gregg Popovich and this chief petty observer have at least one thing in common: We carry grudges into the hereafter.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 10, 2007
Mavericks look primed to win it all
NEW YORK -- Don't try to stop me; I've officially decided the Dallas Mavericks have peaked.

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