After all that, it turns out The Answer is No.

The Knicks chose not to add Allen Iverson to their roster and will move forward without him.

“We’re not going to be making additions at this time to our team,” Knicks President Donnie Walsh said, according to The New York Times. “So I guess that ends the speculation about Allen Iverson. It really has nothing to do with Allen Iverson. It’s just a stage that our team is in right now: what we’ve been trying to do since we got here in building a team for the future. It did get interesting for a while because Allen’s a great player, has always been a great player.

“You’re 1-9, you’re going to start thinking, ‘Well, we got to get some help in here.’” Read more…

NEW YORK — Tobias Harris arrived for his commitment announcement at the ESPN Zone in midtown Manhattan in a black stretch limo.

The 6-foot-8, 220-pound senior forward from Dix Hills (N.Y.) Half Hollow Hills West High School stepped out with his father, Torrel, and assumed his position on the set in a gray suit with an orange shirt.

About 30 Syracuse fans sat behind him in the restaurant and soon began to boo as he said, “I’m going to be playing my college basketball at the University of Tennessee.”

“Rough crowd,” Harris later quipped.

Harris chose the SEC school over Syracuse, West Virginia, Kentucky, Louisville, Maryland and Georgia Tech. He is ranked No. 5 overall in the Class of 2010 and No. 1 among power forwards.

“I liked the family atmosphere, the campus,” he said. “It was a place I could imagine going to if I wasn’t playing basketball. I can talk to coach [Bruce] Pearl about anything.” Read more…

GREENBURGH, N.Y. — -Allen Iverson may clear waivers at 6 o’clock Thursday night, but don’t expect him to be wearing a Knicks jersey five minutes later.

Knicks president Donnie Walsh has spoken to a “few people” about Iverson, including Charlotte coach Larry Brown, who coached Iverson in Philadelphia, but the Knicks have still not decided whether or not to pursue the 10-time All-Star if he does clear waivers.

“I’m still not decided and I don’t think we are decided,” Walsh said Thursday after practice.

Asked if he had a timeframe on when he would like to have a decision made, Walsh said, “Not really.”

That means there’s a chance nothing could happen Thursday night?

“Yes,” Walsh said.

Iverson, 34, and the Memphis Grizzlies parted ways Monday and the Knicks are investigating whether or not to add him to their roster. The Daily News also reported that the Miami Heat were interested in adding Iverson. Read more…

Cleveland Melvin, a 6-8, 200-pound forward from Notre Dame Prep, has committed to UConn, according to Notre Dame Prep coach Ryan Hurd.

Melvin, an East Baltimore, Md., chose UConn over Seton Hall and DePaul. South Florida and TCU also offered.

“A 6-8 kid that can move like he can, you gotta take a commitment from him,” Hurd said. “What their intrigued by is his athleticism. The kid flies around the floor and attacks the rim. We’re working on developing his perimeter game to the arc. He’s got a decent game to 16 feet or so. We want to get him out another three feet. That’s really going to make him a threat.”

Melvin joins 6-9 C Michael Bradley of Chattanooga, Tenn., and 6-4 SG Jeremy Lamb of Norcross, Ga., in UConn’s 2010 recruiting class.

(Photo courtesy New England Recruiting Report)

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Once again it’s one of those days where I wish someone could clone me (like a sheep) and I could be in 2 or 3 places at once…Look at what’s going on today in the New York area:

12:30 - Knicks practice in Greenburgh,  N.Y. Knicks are coming off just their second win of the season last night in Indiana and the Allen Iverson buzz grows stronger every minute.

12:30 – Press conference for Newark Invitational in Newark. Bob and Dan Hurley and players from St. Anthony and St. Ben’s will be on hand to promote this stacked event Jan. 30, which includes a showdown between Duke-bound Read more…

Tobias Harris has made his college decision and will announce it at 6 p.m. Thursday on ESPNU.

“The decision has been made at 11:56 p.m. [Wednesday],” Torrel Harris wrote in a text. “The Tobias college world tour has ended. We appreciate all the great coaches who recruited Tobias.”

The 6-foot-8 Harris, a senior at Dix Hills (N.Y.) Half Hollow Hills West, will announce for one of the following schools: Syracuse, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisville, West Virginia, Maryland and Georgia Tech.

Harris and his father made a surprise stop at Tennessee on Tuesday night on their way back from the Georgia Tech visit.

“We made an unexpected visit to watch the game and congratulated the coach [Bruce Pearl] for his 100th win in the SEC and then we left,” Torrel said. Read more…

With their 110-103 victory Wednesday night in Indiana, the Knicks now have as many November wins as the Yankees.

Two.

Think about that.

Baseball isn’t typically played in November and it’s now 19 days into that month. (And we’re five days from my birthday in case anyone’s counting.)

The Yankees won 2 games in the World Series in November and until Wednesday’s win, the Knicks, Nets, Giants and Jets had combined to win one game — yes, one — in the month of November. Read more…

St. John’s landed its only player of the fall signing period Wednesday when Ronald Roberts signed with the Red Storm.

Roberts is a 6-foot-7, 205-pound combo forward out of Bayonne, N.J. who plays at St. Peter’s Prep and for the Playaz Basketball Club. He chose the Johnnies over St. Joe’s.

“I signed to St. John’s today,” Roberts wrote by text. “I loved the coaches, the players, the atmosphere, the facilities and the campus. I had an offer from St. Joe’s but I wanted to fulfill my dream of playing in the Big East.” Read more…

I wrote a feature on North Carolina freshman point guard Dexter Strickland that that you can read here on SNY.tv but there were a few items that didn’t make the story.

**First off, how about this loaded schedule that North Carolina has in the next couple of weeks? The defending NCAA champion Heels could play five ranked teams in an eight-game span.

They face No. 15 Ohio State Thursday in the Coaches vs. Cancer semis at MSG and could then face either unranked Syracuse or No. 13 Cal in Friday’s title game.

After two tilts against Gardner-Webb and Nevada at home, the Heels host No.2  Michigan State Dec. 1 and visit No. 4 Kentucky Dec. 5. After a home game with Presbyterian, the Heels play at No. 3 Texas Dec. 19.

“Perhaps I took one more game this year than I probably should have for this team,” Carolina coach Roy Williams said. Read more…