In a very quiet move outside of New York, the Knicks acquired Patrick Ewing Jr. from the Houston Rockets in exchange for the draft rights for Frederic Weis.  This trade is hilarious/awesome/strange on so many levels.

Knicks fans may finally be able to rejoice and get closure on the infamous 1999 Draft seletion of Weis over local hero and St. John’s baller, Ron Artest.  Obviously, Weis – yes, the man Vince Carter dunked on by literally jumping over his entire body – isn’t going to come over from France anytime soon to play for the Rockets – but how hysterical is it now that both Artest and Weis are on the same roster – in Houston, of all places. (more…)

When David Arsenault took over the men’s basketball program at Grinnell in 1989, the school had closed with its 25th-straight losing season. A 1,400-student liberal arts college near Des Moines, IA, Grinnell is a Division III school meaning that they don’t offer athletic scholarships of any kind. The average SAT score is 1,350. Recruiting top-flight basketball players isn’t easy.

“Our players needed a change,” admits Arsenault. “They were not happy, I wasn’t happy and no one came to see us play. I decided to experiment and have some fun.”

Arsenault created an offense never seen before in college basketball, a frantic run-and-gun assault that Terry Glasgow, the head coach of Monmouth College, described as “watching five mice let out of a shoebox.” (more…)