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Old Knicks

The Knicks have added point guard Raymond Felton in what will likely be their last free agent signing of the summer.

“Yes,” Tony Dutt, Felton’s agent, said via text.

Citing “two league sources,” ESPN.com first reported that the two sides had reached an agreement that would pay Felton approximately $7 million annually.

“We talked to him,” Knicks president Donnie Walsh said earlier Friday in a conference call. “We feel like we’re close. We have no contract right now. Until we get a contract, in my world it’s not done.”

Felton averaged 12.1 points and 5.6 assists last season and has career averages of 13.3 points and 6.4 assists.

He shot 46 percent from the field and 38.5 percent from beyond the arc last season. Both were career-highs.

High School Transfers, St. Benedict's

By ALEX KLINE

Jevon Thomas is one of the best point guards in New York City. The rising sophomore has some big plans for next year that include a change in school and in grade.

The 6-foot Thomas has decided to leave Our Savior New American in New York for St. Benedict’s in New Jersey.

“I’m going to St. Benedict’s,” said Thomas, the No. 14 point guard in the Class of 2012, according to Rivals. He will play the point there and replace Myck Kabongo — who departed for Findlay Prep — as the school’s starting point guard. “I chose to transfer to St. Benedict’s because they have a much better schedule so I can get more exposure,” he said.

“Along with that, my family wanted me to go to an all-boys school so I wouldn’t have any distractions.”

Arizona, Memphis, Rutgers, St. John's, St. Patrick, UConn, Villanova, West Virginia, Xavier

By ALEX KLINE

While LeBron James‘ Skills Academy and the Adidas Invitational in Indiana were huge grassroots events this week, another camp got coaches, fans and top players to participate.

The Hoop Group was hosting its annual elite camp and as usual, did not disappoint. The camp takes place at Albright College in Reading, Pa. With boatloads of discovered and undiscovered talent all around the East Coast, this four-day camp brings out the best in everyone who participates.

With tryouts, skill drills, live games, lectures and much more, the campers experience a few days of hard-nose basketball and living on a college campus in order to prepare for the next level. While the hard working members of The Hoop Group ran around and pulled the strings behind the show from sunrise to beyond sunset, the tournaments ran just as planned.

LeBron James

By Tom Withers

AP Sports Writer

See ya, Cleveland.

Sorry, Chicago, New York and New Jersey. Maybe next time around, Clippers.

LeBron James chose superstar help over the comforts of home and is heading for Miami because he wants to win a championship with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.

NBA, get ready: A superstar trio has just been born.

Ending weeks of will-he-or-won’t-he speculation, the two-time MVP said Thursday night that he’s decided to join the Heat and leave the Cavaliers after an unsuccessful seven-year quest for the ring he covets.

Arizona State, St. John's, UCLA

Remi Barry is waiting.

Waiting for the NCAA to decide his fate.

A French native who is enrolled at Loomis (Calif.) Del Oro High, Barry cannot make his next move until he is cleared by the NCAA.

He is considering St. John’s, UCLA and Arizona State but cannot enroll until he hears from the NCAA.

“I’m waiting on the NCAA on everything,” the 6-foot-7 Barry said Thursday night by phone.

“Basically, there’s a lot of things they don’t know. They don’t know if I’m eligible. They’re trying to figure it out.”

LeBron James, Old Knicks

NEW YORK — Knicks president Donnie Walsh has no plans to watch the hourlong LeBron James spectacle Thursday night on ESPN.

What will he be doing instead?

“Probably watching a movie,” Walsh quipped after the press conference officially introducing Amar’e Stoudemire as the newest Knick via a sign-and-trade with the Phoenix Suns.

“I’m not going to watch [LeBron]. I know I’ll get a phonecall within 10 seconds.”

Walsh and the Knicks spent two years clearing some $34 million in cap space to pursue James, but now appear resigned to him heading elsewhere — with Miami his reported destination.

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