Some Good Things about the NIT Starting the Season
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It lets the gamblers mingle with a lot of good players early.
It lets the spread setters knock off the rust on their spread setting, while chowing down at Le Bernardin.
It takes fans minds off former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s private oligarchy model of city government.
It helps people ignore the lightweights Lorne Michaels has put on Tonight and Late Night.
It increases the chances of New Jersey Governor Chris Christy enrolling correspondence at St. John’s and playing some power forward to try to jump start his a presidential bid, if another tropical storm does not hit soon.
It reminds everyone of that great New York basketball legacy of players playing in wire cages.
It gives everyone an early look at the kind of St. John’s players that Norm Roberts was denied by wrong way types.
(Note: All fiction and/or satire. No malice.)