A day after Knicks’ point guard Chris Duhon called out his teammates for a lack of focus entering the Charlotte game, his bosses and teammates reacted.
“I don’t think it’s a problem, let me put it that way,” Knicks President Donnie Walsh said before the Sixers-Knicks game Saturday at MSG.
Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni, though, said he [...]

No. 2 seed New Heights and the No. 1 New York Panthers will play for the is8 championship on Sunday in Queens after both teams won their semifinal games Saturday.
JayVaughn Pinkston poured in a game-high 30 points on 12-of-21 shooting and added seven rebounds, and Devon Collier added 27 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks [...]

The Knicks are only two games into their season and already there are signs of discord.
After Friday night’s 102-100 double-overtime loss at Charlotte, point guard Chris Duhon said he and his teammates “lost the game before it even started” because of a lack of focus.
“We lost this game before the game even started,” Duhon, who [...]

Kentucky freshman guard John Wall has been cleared to play by the NCAA.
The 6-foot-4 Wall must repay nearly $800 in expenses and sit the first exhibition game against Campbellsville (Nov. 2) and the first regular-season game against Morehead State (Nov. 13).
“I’m grateful to have this decision behind me. All I ever wanted was to go [...]

If Mick Cronin had his way, every top player in New York City would follow Lance Stephenson.
To Cincinnati.
“I think it’s great for all the best players in New York to get out of New York and come to Cincinnati,” Cronin said with a smile in an interview you can see in the Video Player at [...]

One of the bonuses of being a professional journalist is that you sometimes get advance copies of movies or books for review purposes.
On Wednesday I received a Fedex delivery containing the film, “The Street Stops Here,” which documents Bob Hurley’s 2007-08 St. Anthony Friars, who went a perfect 32-0 en route to the New Jersey Tournament of Champions title [...]

Hit the Video Player at upper right for my interview from Big East media day with West Virginia coach Bob Huggins, whose club was picked eighth in the AP preseason poll and ninth in the Coaches’ poll.
The Mountaineers feature a strong New York/New Jersey flavor with senior forwards Da’Sean Butler of Newark and and Wellington Smith [...]

Adreian Payne is headed to the Big Ten.
The 6-foot-10 center out of Dayton (Ohio) Jefferson chose Michigan State over West Virginia, Kentucky and Arizona.
“I decided to go to Michigan State,” Payne said on ESPNU. “I feel real comfortable stepping on campus going there. They offer a lot of good things, such as the academics [and] a good [...]

Seton Hall commit Fuquan Edwin dropped 25 points and Kyle Anderson scored 17 Wednesday night to lead Paterson Catholic to an 82-71 victory over Rice in the championship game of the Paterson Fall Ball at Paterson Kennedy, according to NJHoops-Journal.com.
It was the second straight Fall Ball crown for head coach Damon Wright’s Cougars.
The 6-foot-6 Edwin [...]

Kansas topped the USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 men’s basketball preseason coaches’ poll released Thursday, and six Big East clubs made the rankings.
Kansas, the 2008 NCAA champion, was voted the preseason No. 1 despite several off-the-court issues, including recent fights between members of the football and basketball teams that left New Jersey guard Tyshawn Taylor with an [...]