Knicks Waiting for Gallinari to Emerge
GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- With the Yankees, Giants
GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- With the Yankees, Giants
Baltimore (Md.) Lake Clifton guard Josh Selby will announce his visit schedule on Wednesday, according to his mother.
After decommitting from Tennessee, Selby is looking at Baylor, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Miami and Syracuse.
“Yes, we are going to visit those schools,” Maeshon Witherspoon, Selby’s mother, wrote in a text.
Selby will visit Kansas this coming weekend for “Late Night in the Phog.”
“He will take an unofficial visit to KU for Midnight Madness,” Witherspoon said.
GREENBURGH, N.Y. — When the Knicks take the Madison Square Garden floor Tuesday night for their preseason home opener against the Philadelphia 76ers, Eddy Curry won’t take a single shot or grab a single rebound.
But Knicks President Donnie Walsh wants the 7-foot, 317-pound Curry back as soon as humanly possible.
Curry left training camp in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. on Sept. 29 after tearing his right plantaris muscle and hasn’t returned to practice since.
“I’m pushing for as soon as he can get here healthy and our trainers I think are doing a good job,” Walsh said after Monday’s practice. “And Eddy’s working hard, is what they tell me.”
Jesse “The Takeover” Morgan has verbally committed to Seton Hall.
The 6-foot-4, 180-pound combo guard from Philly committed after a weekend visit to campus.
“I committed about 45 minutes ago,” Morgan said by phone Monday afternoon. “I’m just happy to be a Pirate.”
He added: “I can come in and contribute as a freshman and get quality minutes. It’s not too far from home so my family can come up and see me play.”
Morgan, 18, joins 6-5 Paterson Catholic wing Fuquan Edwin in Seton Hall’s recruiting class for 2010.
South Kent (Conn.) coach Kelvin Jefferson said Morgan was “as under-recruited as anybody in the country.”
St. Anthony forward Devon Collier took his first official visit this weekend, flying cross-country to Oregon State.
It was the first of four visits for the 6-foot-8 Collier, a talented lefty combo forward from The Bronx who plays for legendary St. Anthony coach Bob Hurley.
“Oregon State would be my top [school] because the official visit was great,” he said. “Since I officialy visited Oregon State, they’re on top. I have to visit the other schools. Then I’ll decide.”
Collier will visit Providence beginning Thursday and stay for Midnight Madness Friday. He will then hit St. John’s for the Red Storm Tip-Off Oct. 22 and an official visit to the Queens school beginning the next day. His final official is slated for Seton Hall Oct. 30, the same weekend St. Patrick point guard Kyrie Irving is due to visit campus.
Oregon State head coach Craig Robinson, the brother-in-law of President Barack Obama, has pursued Collier by flying cross-country several times to watch him in open gyms.
Less than a week before the first practice of Louisville’s new basketball season, two starters were arrested for disorderly conduct and spent Saturday night in a southern Indiana jail.
Forward Terrence Jennings and guard Jerry Smith face misdemeanor charges after getting involved in a fight after an alumni homecoming party at Kye’s in Jeffersonville, Ind., according to reports by WHAS11.com and the Louisville Courier Journal.
Louisville spokesman Kenny Klein told the Courier Journal that both players were released from the Clark County jail on Sunday morning.
Kyrie Irving has now completed two official visits and still plans to take the three others he initially planned.
After a weekend official to Texas A&M in which the Aggies lost to Oklahoma State 36-31 in football, Irving texted me Sunday to say, “It was good. I really enjoyed it.”
The 6-foot-2 Irving, a senior point guard at Elizabeth (N.J.) St. Patrick, said he still planned to visit Kentucky next weekend for Big Blue Madness.
“Yes,” he said.
