The Knicks regulate the basketball heartbeat in New York City. They control the city’s hardwood mood swings. When things are good — and lately, they have been as good as they have been since the Clinton Administration — the town feels like an overgrown version of Hickory, Ind., one big, sprawling gymnasium. It is the city game, after all.
But the Knicks aren’t the game’s only civic curators, and that’s made the past few years especially difficult for local gym rats. It’s been four years since one of “our” teams has been in the NCAA Tournament (not counting liberal March adoption policies when it’s OK to annex a UConn here, a Siena there, when we can pretend Syracuse is the outer-est of the outer boroughs).
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At a time when the Garden plays host to doubleheaders featuring national programs, when the Izod Center gets Duke-Butler, Pecora envisions a time when the Garden can do its part in the revitalization of the city game. An ambitious wish for two doubleheaders, afternoon and evening, eight area schools, capped by the St. John’s-Fordham game as the main event.
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