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By ADAM ZAGORIA Zeke Nnaji, the 6-foot-11 power
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(AP) — Joakim Noah’s disappointing Knicks career is over after just two seasons.
Unable to find a trade, the Knicks waived Noah, a 33-year-old center, on Saturday with two years and $37.8 million remaining on his contract.
Noah had been away from the team since clashing with the former coach Jeff Hornacek last season, when he appeared in only seven games. The Knicks had already decided he would not rejoin the club under their new coach, David Fizdale, but they were hoping they could find a trade to get something back for him without having to cut him.
Noah signed with his hometown team in July 2016 and drew a loud ovation in his first appearance at Madison Square Garden, where he was introduced as being from Hell’s Kitchen, a Manhattan neighborhood not far from the Garden, rather than from the University of Florida, the team he helped win two N.C.A.A. championships.
The Chicago Bulls selected him with the ninth overall pick in the 2007 draft. He had great years with the Bulls, highlighted by being voted defensive player of the year and first-team All-N.B.A. in 2014.
By ADAM ZAGORIA
Anthony Walker, the 6-foot-8, 205-pound forward from Brewster (N.H.) Academy, has cut his list to four schools and set a decision date.
Walker is down to Pittsburgh, Illinois, Miami and Boston College and will announce Oct. 20. He visited Illinois (Sept. 3), Pittsburgh (Sept. 14) and Rhode Island (Sept. 21) and Miami (Oct. 6). He did not visit BC officially.
By ADAM ZAGORIA During his 10th Big Blue
By ADAM ZAGORIA
Mustapha Heron is taking a stand on gun violence awareness.
Having been granted a legislative relief waiver to play this season at St. John’s, the 6-foot-5 Auburn transfer will now spend Saturday in his native Waterbury, Conn., promoting his “Shoot Hoops Not Guns Tournament” that is promoted by his Mustapha Heron Skills Academy.
The event involves about a dozen high school teams from New York and Connecticut playing at three recreation centers in Waterbury. It is the second event Heron has promoted to raise awareness of gun violence.
“I’m having a high school tournament in Waterbury right now,” Heron said Saturday morning by phone following the news first reported by ZAGSBLOG that he had been granted a waiver. “We have teams from Syracuse coming down and all the best teams in Connecticut, just a little preseason tournament that we hold to bring awareness to the gun violence around the state, around the city.
