My Sport Diary--NBA

NEW YORK − Sure, the Knicks cruise to Brooklyn to accessible the division adjoin the Nets on Nov. 1 is noteworthy. As is their home opener adjoin the Miami Heat on Nov. 2.

But the date that’s abiding to be circled by a lot of Knicks admirers is Dec. 17, if Jeremy Lin will acknowledgment to Madison Square Garden as a affiliate of the Houston Rockets.

Lin agreed to a three-year, $25.1 actor accord with the Rockets beforehand this month. The Knicks beneath to bout Houston’s offer, in allotment because they didn’t anticipate Lin was account the $14.8 actor bacon in the third year of the contract. (It would accept amount the Knicks $43 actor if counted adjoin the affluence tax).

NEW YORK (AP) − New York Knicks point bouncer Jason Kidd was arrested on a drunken-driving allegation afterwards badge said he comatose his SUV into a blast pole in the Hamptons on Sunday, canicule afterwards signing with the Knicks.

Treated at a hospital for accessory injuries afterwards the crash, Kidd was arraigned on a abomination driving-while-intoxicated allegation and appear after bail, Southampton Town badge said.

Kidd’s abettor didn’t anon acknowledge to buzz or email messages. The Knicks, who active the 10-time All-Star in chargeless bureau this week, had no actual comment.

Kidd, 39, was abandoned in the 2010 Cadillac Escalade if it hit a pole and veered into the dupe about 2 a.m. in Water Mill, badge said. Water Mill is a serene, mainly residential association east of Southampton Village.

The Miami Heat won the NBA Championship endure anniversary - bound silencing all the critics of LeBron James' accommodation to yield his talents to South Beach. It was LeBron's aboriginal championship, and the additional appellation for the Heat aback 2006. To bless this, aggregation sponsor Hublot absitively to accord the absolute alignment watches. But not just any watches - big, white watches. Called the White Hot Big Bang, these Hublots are engraved on the aback with the Heat logo and date of the championship. They were presented to not alone players, but the apprenticeship agents of the team.

Conspicuously absent from the anniversary was, well, the man anybody absolutely capital to see, alternation MVP LeBron James. James is, of course, an agent for arch Hublot adversary Audemars Piguet (read an account with James conducted by Ben Clymer about his accord witih AP here).

No official chat on how abounding watches in absolute were accustomed out, but the official retail amount of this archetypal is $14,800. Curious why the White Hot Big Bang was chosen? Well, that's because the Heat had a "White Hot" playoff run. Hmmk.