by John Walters
Patrick, Rafters
Knick legend Patrick Ewing, now coaching at Georgetown, was stopped multiple times by security at Madison Square Garden yesterday during the Big East tournament. He was not amused. Ewing is 7’0″ after all and the greatest Knick to not have played on the 1970 and ’73 championship squads.
Maybe if he’d have beaten Michael Jordan in the playoffs just once…
Johnny, Dangerously
Here’s retired A’s, Red Sox and Yankees star Johnny Damon failing a field sobriety test on his driveway in Windemere, Fla. That’s his wife going all Karen on the cops. If only he’d played for another AL club we’d have been able to headline this White Sox Privilege. Alas…
Not only did Damon fail the field sobriety test, he tested FOUR times the legal limit for intoxication. Damon can be heard saying, “I’m being targeted because I’m for Trump.”
Kawhi Ask Such A Dumb Question
On “Inside The NBA” last night, Charles Barkley asked Clipper forward Kawhi Leonard—you’ll remember when he took over the 2019 NBA Finals for the Toronto Raptors—if he has seen a difference between Ty Lue, the LA Clippers’ new coach, and Doc Rivers, the team’s coach last year (1:14 of the Clip clip).
“Yeah,” answered the laconic Leonard. “They’re two different people.”
I expect the Inside The NBA gang, particularly Ernie Johnson, to be using this line plenty in the coming weeks.
Rail Improvement
New Yorkers justifiably take great pride in the beauty and grandeur of Grand Central Station, the rail depot that connects New Yorkers to all points north and northeast. Ah, but as for Penn Station, which has for decades sat beneath Madison Square Garden, where no one knows who Patrick Ewing is anymore, not so much. It is a decrepit and cramped and low-ceilinged basement that is even possibly nastier than the Port Authority (the city’s bus depot).
But now they’ve fixed all of the that. The Moynihan Train Hall, opened in the old U.S. Post Office just across 8th Ave. from MSG, has just opened. For those headed out on Amtrak, or to the Jersey Shore or Long Island, things no longer need be so depressing.
I know what you’re thinking: What’s a post office?
Rebirth Of A Nation
President Joe Biden gave his first national TV address last night, on the one-year anniversary of The Former Guy’s national TV address in which he assured Americans that the “foreign virus” was no big deal.
We didn’t listen, but we’re going to go out on a short limb and assume that Biden did not remind everyone that he received more votes than any presidential candidate in history, or that he did not take personal credit for the Dow Jones hitting an all-time high, or that he did not belittle anyone who has dared to disagree with him while also falsely bolstering his own reputation. Just a guess.