Big East Report: St. John’s Red Storm
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GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Henry Sims has started as many preseason games for the Knicks as Amar’e Stoudemire has.
He has actually started more preseason games than J.R. Smith, Marcus Camby and Rasheed Wallace combined.
On Saturday, when the Knicks played the Celtics in Albany, the 6-foot-10 former Georgetown standout found himself starting for the Knicks alongside Raymond Felton and Kurt Thomas, among others.
“It felt great,” Sims told SNY.tv Tuesday after practice. “My mom got to watch the game [on TV] so she was excited, more excited than I was.”
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GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Rasheed Wallace could scrimmage with the Knicks for the first time on Friday, but definitely won’t play in the team’s last preseason game Wednesday against the Nets at Nassau Coliseum.
“Probably in a couple more days,” said Knicks coach Mike Woodson, whose team went 0-3 on its recent exhibition swing that concluded with a 98-90 loss to the 76ers in Syracuse.
“We’re going to get [Wednesday’s] game out of the way and give them all the day off Thursday probably and then we’re going to come back and start to work.”
There could end up being an in-state recruiting war between Syracuse and St. John’s for 2014 forward Chris McCullough, a potential one-and-done player.
“I don’t really have a leader,” he told SNY.tv by text Tuesday. “I just feel like Syracuse and St. John’s [are] showing the most love.”
The 6-foot-10 McCullough is coming off a 17-point performance in Sunday’s Sharette Dixon Memorial Classic game, in which his New York team beat New Jersey, 112-98.
Karl Towns, arguably the top rising sophomore in the nation, visited Duke for Midnight Madness on Friday.
The 6-foot-11 Towns attended along with 2014 PG Tyus Jones, 2014 PF Jahlil Okafor, 2014 SF Theo Pinson and 2016 PF Harry Giles.
“I really enjoyed the visit and had a great time,” Towns, out of St. Joe’s-Metuchen, told ZAGSBLOG contributor Alex Schiffer.
Asked how me might fit in at Duke should he opt to go there, Towns said, “I think I would fit in well. With Coach K having Ryan Kelly this year shows he can work with big men at any position and make the most of their talent.
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James Young’s recent commitment to Kentucky may have emboldened other college programs to recruit Andrew Wiggins harder, Wiggins’s high school coach told SNY.tv.
“Obviously, with James Young right now as a kid that’s already committed to Kentucky in that ’13 class, maybe some of these schools feel a little bit more confident now,” Huntington Prep coach Rob Fulford told SNY.tv Tuesday morning.
“I think the other schools kind of feel they have a shot now, I guess.”
