St. John’s Finds New Locker Room and New Excitement at Garden [NY Times]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/sports/basketball/04storm.html

They're using the Knicks' locker rooms, finally!

Start with as basic an improvement as the team’s locker room. For years, the Red Storm had used one of the Garden’s drab auxiliary locker rooms. On Monday, because Lavin simply asked, the Red Storm was able to walk past those high-school-caliber locker rooms and take up residence in the Knicks’ dressing room.

On game days, the room is now converted into a personal space for the Red Storm.

“We have our own carpet with our own colors and emblem, nameplates that slide on top of the lockers, big leather chairs with the St. John’s logo, photographs of current and former players on the walls to cover the Knicks stuff — that really cherries it out,” Lavin said in a telephone interview Sunday. “It would have felt like we were playing on the road or at a neutral site for every game and be a disadvantage for us, as opposed to for other teams.”

gonzalo

Excellent.  :)