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Steve Novak: Honestly, I'll say this. Jeremy and Linsanity happened when Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire were hurt. And so there was a lot of messaging from different guys in the locker room and people around the team that said one thing and guys that said the other. I can only speak for myself. Melo was a great teammate. I loved playing with him. I have no confirmed and I mean this I didn't experience and I have no confirmed from Melo or from Jeremy that Melo in any way did anything to get rid of Jeremy or to stop Linsanity or to hurt him. And I know based on what I've spoken privately with Jeremy about his conversation with Melo went really well and then Jeremy said you know we talked about a bunch of stuff and very open about what I heard what he said I heard this kind of stuff and I think it's in a really good place.
MSG Networks has signed Steve Novak for a primetime spot off the bench. The former sharpshooter, 42, who played two seasons in New York, will serve in the analyst role for about a dozen games as Clyde Frazier’s backup this season, MSG Networks announced Thursday. Novak’s debut is Friday night against the Bulls in Chicago, where the Knicks will try to snap a two-game skid. Novak is replacing Jamal Crawford, who was Frazier’s backup last season but moved to NBC for the national station’s return to NBA broadcasts.
New York Knicks PR: Julius Randle will represent the Knicks in the three point contest. He’s the first Knick to compete in the event since Steve Novak. pic.twitter.com/liZDAncimb
Julius Randle will represent the Knicks in the three point contest. He’s the first Knick to compete in the event since Steve Novak. pic.twitter.com/liZDAncimb
— NY Knicks PR (@NY_KnicksPR) February 16, 2023
A sign addressing systemic racism was recently removed from the Whitefish Bay Public Library grounds following vocal criticism from some in the community — including former Milwaukee Bucks player Steve Novak. The sign, which was placed in a rock garden display outside the library by Bay Bridge Wisconsin — a group that focuses on "raising awareness of racial and cultural bias in our community" — described its vision for the North Shore suburb.
"There is an offensive sign posted in front of the public library that incorrectly generalizes our community. It says that Whitefish Bay recognizes systemic racism," Novak, who works as an analyst for the Bucks on Bally Sports Wisconsin (formerly Fox Sports Wisconsin), wrote in a June 8 email to Nyama Reed, the library's director. "What group has taken the liberty of speaking for our community in such a hateful, damaging and inaccurate way?"
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Musselman was in the middle of his first year coaching the Reno Bighorns, and his team was toward the end of a 110-96 win over the Idaho Stampede. Musselman’s squad was relatively loaded, featuring future NBA regulars in Jeremy Lin, Danny Green, Hassan Whiteside and Steve Novak. During his lone year in Reno, Musselman, now the University of Arkansas coach, led a team that still has its fingerprints on the NBA nearly a decade later, from the court to front offices.
Novak remembers Lin talking about how Musselman let him play through his mistakes, and improve his point guard vision and offensive game. For Green, who came in low on confidence, that was all he needed to hear. “(Musselman) really vouched for me,” Green said. “He really let me play free. He really let me do my thing. The day I got in, he asked me how things were going, he incorporated me into a lot of stuff, but he was tenacious. He got after it. He talked his trash to opponents. He was a tough son of a gun.”
Marc Berman: As part of Linsanity Week, Jeremy Lin will join some of his former Knicks teammates – Landry Fields, Steve Novak and Amar’e Stoudemire – on “MSG 150 at Home” tonight at 5 p.m., per source. Nice touch.
Ryan Wolstat: Danny Green also said it's fun to be reunited with Jeremy Lin and Raptors assistant Phil Handy, who was an assistant when both were on the Reno Bighorns in 2011 (with Hassan Whiteside, Steve Novak and others). "Right after that the Linsanity thing happened."
He knows that in the broadcasting business an analyst can only be as successful as their play-by-play broadcaster allows them to be. From that very first moment, it was clear Paschke was invested in Novak. “I think to me to the overwhelming thing is, growing up a big Bucks fan and watching and listening to the Bucks, he is the voice that has always represented all the information that you got from the Bucks when you watched the game, when you turned the TV on," Novak said. "I look at it as such a huge honor – a privilege, really – to work with him because I 100 percent know what his sound has meant to me watching the Bucks and now knowing I get to be on there with him has been a blast.”
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One time, Thompson kept falling short on the last set, and he asked Torres who had done the best at the drill in the past. Torres said it was Steve Novak, who usually hit at least four of five from each spot. Thompson snarled and said, “Novak? Fuck that.” The next time through the drill, Thompson caught fire and completed it. “Klay is so competitive. It doesn’t matter if it’s Ping-Pong, pool, golf, or beer pong. It doesn’t matter. It’s the factor that separates the guys that are good and the guys that are great,” Torres said. “Klay has an ability to turn it on, even when he’s tired. Most people just don’t have that.”
A popular topic of conversation at the Thunder practice facility was the house Kanter purchased in Oklahoma City (that he’s since sold, at a loss). He was so excited to furnish it and asked around about hiring an interior decorator. But later, when he saw the bill and noticed that he was charged around $10,000 for curtains alone, he lost it. “It became a joke in the locker room,” Novak says. “Like, ‘Oh God, Enes is bitching about his curtains again.’” Bring up the curtains with Enes and his smile turns into a sheepish grin. “She didn’t charge me that much but it was very expensive curtains. Very, very expensive curtains. I was like ‘what was I thinking?’”