Who should play against Obama during the president’s basketball game fund-raiser?
Let us know what you think. Howard Megdal has his own suggestions…
So which is it? Has Jeremy Lin joined a team that will help him excel on and off the court? Or has he become part of a wacky and possibly ill-advised experiment?
"I love the New York fans to death. That’s the biggest reason why I wanted to return to New York. The way they embraced me, the way they supported us this past season, was better than anything I’ve ever seen or experienced. I’ll go to my grave saying that. What New York did for me was unbelievable. I wanted to play in front of those fans for the rest of my career."
— Jeremy Lin sends his regrets
A Knicks fan celebrates after a Game 4 win against the Miami Heat.
"Imagine a distracted, mostly disingenuous “it’s not you, it’s me” speech that drags on for nearly a decade at ear-splitting volume, interrupted only by canned crowd noise, the airy poompf of a T-shirt cannon and one 13-point loss after another, and it’s easy to understand why the prevailing mood at the last game in New Jersey was one of faintly nostalgic exhaustion."
— David Roth on why the Brooklyn Nets can scrub hard, but the Jersey won’t come off for Capital New York.
End of a Queens empire: The sun sets on Jack Curran’s era of disciplined basketball dominance at Archbishop Molloy
After suffering a pair of difficult losses in this weekend’s Big East Tournament—a 79-73 defeat to Syracuse, and senior D.J. Kennedy to a season-ending knee injury—St. John’s prospects in the NCAA tournament are … mixed. The team is still good enough to make a run deep into the tournament, even without Kennedy, but their most significant challenge could be their first-round game.
