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    • Kentucky, Recruiting, St. Patrick

    HILLSIDE, N.J. — Growing up in Kingston, Jamaica, Nick Richards loved competing in soccer, volleyball and track and field.

    He never thought much about the McDonald’s All-American Game until he landed on Long Island in the summer of 2013 ago to pursue his dreams in the game of basketball.

    “I knew what [the McDonald’s Game] was, I just didn’t think that I would get selected for it,” Richards said Wednesday in the gym at The Patrick School.

    Now playing in just his fourth year of organized basketball, the 6-foot-11 Richards proudly slipped on the McDonald’s All-American jersey in front of his mother, his coaches, his teammates and his schoolmates during a ceremony on the stage in the gym.

    Breaking News, Kyrie Irving, St. Patrick

    By ADAM ZAGORIA

    Spencer Joyner has never met Kyrie Irving, but he knows a lot about him.

    “I never met him,” Joyner, a 12-year-old seventh-grader at The Patrick School (N.J.), said by phone. “He plays on the Cleveland Cavaliers with LeBron and Kevin Love. He just won an NBA title last year. [He was] the No. 1 pick in the Draft, went to Duke. He didn’t play so much in college because he got hurt.”

    Irving is also among the leaders in votes for the upcoming NBA All-Star Game in New Orleans.

    Though the two have never met, Irving is making a huge difference in Joyner’s life. Spencer was diagnosed in November with pseudotumor cerebri, a debilitating condition that results in migraine headaches and can cause vision loss. The condition kept him in the hospital for more than a week and prevents him from attending school for the time being.

    NBA, Video

    The 2016-17 NBA season kicked off Tuesday night in glorious fashion.

    Three games featuring some of the league’s elite teams took place. First LeBron James and the Cavaliers got their championship rings and then crushed the Knicks in Cleveland to begin their title defense. Then Damian Lillard went off for 39 as the Blazers beat the Jazz in Utah. And the nightcap featured Kevin Durant and the new-look Warriors getting getting blown out at home by Kawhi Leonard and the Spurs.

    Here are the top 10 ZAGSBLOG / OVERTIME highlights from the NBA’s opening night.

    You can see all of the highlights from Tuesday nights action on Overtime here.

     

    1-To avoid this being a LeBron top 10 list, here are several of his insane plays.

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