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    • Articles, NBA Draft, West Virginia

    Kevin Jones‘ agent says the former West Virginia star has a guarantee from one team that he will be picked in the first round of Thursday’s NBA Draft.

    If that doesn’t materialize, he expects Jones to go in the second round.

    “A team in the first round has committed to him,” agent Bill Neff told SNY.tv. “The question is, what does that mean? I never trust anything other than what happens on draft night.

    “He’ll get drafted,” Neff added. “It’s either them in the first or early second.”

    Articles, Recruiting

    Jabari Parker, the No. 1 player in the Class of 2013, is OK after suffering a hairline fracture of his left big toe and will be able to compete for the USA U17 team in the upcoming World Championship in Lithuania.

    “Forty-eight hours ago he had a hairline fracture on his big toe and now it’s healed,” Sonny Parker, Jabari’s dad, told the Chicago Tribune on Friday afternoon. “That’s the power of prayer.”

    Parker initially injured the toe during U17 practices in Colorado Springs, Colo., and X-rays revealed the fracture.

    Old Knicks

    The Knicks received a dose of good news Friday when an arbitrator ruled that Jeremy Lin and Steve Novak both will retain their “Early Bird Rights.”

    The NBA intends to appeal arbitrator’s Kenneth Dam’s decision, according to a release sent out by the league.

    According to the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the player keeps his rights if he changes teams by trade. The NBPA argued that a player and his contract going from one team to another also should maintain his rights through a waiver claim.

    Articles, Recruiting

    Jarell Martin, a 6-foot-9, 223-pound combo forward from Baton Rouge (La.) Madison Prep, has cut his list to 10 schools and will be down to five later this summer.

    As has been reported, Martin, a 2013 forward, trimmed his list to Alabama, Arizona, Kansas, Louisville, LSU, Oklahoma State, St. John’s, Texas A & M, Tulane and UCLA.

    “We’re going to look at at the end of July possibly by then cutting it down to five,” Madison Prep coach Jeff Jones told SNY.tv Friday.

    Jones calls Martin, who will attend the Kevin Durant and LeBron James Skills Academies, “more of a face-up four who can play the three. He knocks down 3-balls, puts it on the floor. He’s in the mold of a Terrence Jones at Kentucky. He has a little bit better handle at this stage.”

    Rutgers

    PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Mike Rice remembers watching Wally Judge play when he was a McDonald’s All-American in high school.

    “I just saw him as one of the best athletes with that frame,” the Rutgers coach told SNY.tv.

    “That’s what pros are, the ability to run, jump, change directions. That’s what a pro body looks like.”

    Fast forward several years and Rice will now get the opportunity to coach the 6-foot-9, 245-pound Judge after he sat out last season following his transfer from Kansas State.

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