Neil Best
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted on Sept.
Everyone wanted to hear from the tall guys down at court level – Phil Jackson and Kurt Rambis and Carmelo Anthony and Kristaps Porzingis and other members of the 6-foot-8-plus club, searching for answers to another Knicks puzzlement.
But something more interesting went on far above them at Madison Square Garden Tuesday night.
It was there that row upon row full of normal-sized people stretched to the very last row of the upper level.