As St. John's coach Steve Lavin has criss-crossed the country selling a new vision of Red Storm basketball, he has emphasized two points:
St. John's is the only college that calls Madison Square Garden -- where every NBA legend has played --home. And Lavin believes he has the staff, headlined by former NBA assistants Mike Dunlap and Rico Hines, that can get players to buy into that promised land of hoops.
That's what sold former Philadelphia schoolyard legend Nurideen Lindsey on St. John's. The 6-3, 185-pounder verbally committed to St. John's yesterday, said Yaphett King, Lindsey's coach at Redlands Community College in El Reno, Okla.
King said Lindsey, a natural scorer, has been working the last year on point guard skills and is looking to play that position at St. John's. Lavin has signed some of the top wings in the country, but knew his first class would be lacking without a point guard.
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