Jimmy Fallon Covers ‘Jeremy (Lin)’
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GREENBURGH, N.Y. — LeBron James beat Jeremy Lin in a head-to-head matchup between the Heat and the Knicks before the All-Star break.
And now he has beaten him out for NBA Eastern Conference Player of the Month.
James captured his second consecutive such award Friday night after leading Miami to an 11-2 record in February.
The award came on a night when James had 35 points, 10 rebounds, six assists and three blocks in a 99-98 loss at the Utah Jazz that snapped a nine-game Miami winning streak.
GREENBURGH, N.Y. — J.R. Smith is the best scoring guard ever to come out of St. Benedict’s Prep.
Isaiah Briscoe may be the next stud scoring guard to emerge from the Newark school.
And Smith wants to get a look at the 2015 combo guard who is considering Syracuse and UConn, among other programs.
“There’s a lot of great talent there,” Smith said Friday after Knicks practice. “We have a freshman over there that’s really talented so I can’t wait to see what he looks like.”
GREENBURGH — The developing relationship between Jeremy Lin and Baron Davis appears to have reached a new level.
The two point guards played together for a stretch during practice Friday — and head coach Mike D’Antoni could opt to utilize them more often together in game situations going forward.
“It might happen in the game, we might have both of them in,” D’Antoni said. “So they’re just getting used to each other, playing with each other.”
GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni wants to play his bench more minutes, but what that means for Josh Harrellson remains unclear.
“He can play,” D’Antoni said Friday of the rookie out of Kentucky.
“I’ve got to find the time. It’s got to be right. I’ve got to feel right about it, but the way he plays, anytime is good.”
Harrellson was one of D’Antoni’s favorite bench players when he went down with a fractured right wrist on Jan. 21.
At 6-foot-10, he could space the floor and shoot 3-pointers. He could rebound. And he wasn’t afraid to do the dirty work, like diving for loose balls.
Lamar Odom has been sent to the NBA Development League for at least one game.
The Mavericks said Friday that Odom had been assigned to the Texas Legends. He will be in uniform for the D-League team’s home game in Frisco on Saturday night.
Dallas is playing nine games in 12 games, including at New Orleans on Friday night and at home Saturday against Utah.
Some lucky college basketball fans next year will get to chant, “Who’s your daddy?,” just like the Serra High School student section did Thursday night.
“That’s my name,” Daddy Ugbede, a 6-foot-7 left-handed senior combo forward from Nigeria, told the Los Angeles Times. “I hear it every game. I like it.”
Ugbede, who we have been writing about here for two years, is now helping Serra make a deep postseason run in Southern California.
Playing against Arizona-bound McDonald’s All-American Grant Jerrett, Ugbede went off for 32 points Thursday as Serra beat La Verne Lutheran, 69-59, in the Southern Section Division 4AA championship basketball game.
