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LeBron James played the role of D.J. in the Heat's locker room before taking the court for Game 3 at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night. The first song he selected was by the rap duo Outkast, ''Da Art of Storytellin' (Part 1).'' In the first three quarters of James's New York playoff debut, James was more outcast than most valuable player. He was ineffective on offense. On defense, he picked up his fourth foul with more than seven minutes remaining in the third quarter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Forty minutes before Thursday night's playoff game between the Knicks and the Miami Heat, Chris Bosh's No. 1 Heat jersey hung in an otherwise empty locker inside the visiting locker room at Madison Square Garden. Bosh's absence was understandable. About 16 hours earlier, his wife, Adrienne, had given birth in Miami to the couple's first child, a son, Jackson. But at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, with the opening tip-off of Game 3 in the Knicks-Heat playoff series half an hour away, Bosh walked into the Heat locker room, where he was greeted by cheering teammates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After their 95-70 victory over St. John's on Saturday at Madison Square Garden, the Syracuse players packed their bags quietly, with hardly a sign of celebration. Coaches and university administrators lingered outside the locker room, waiting to go home. The scene matched the Orange's businesslike demolition of the Red Storm squad, which could not come up with an answer for Jim Boeheim's 2-3 zone defense, the size to stop center Fab Melo on the inside or the athletes to keep up with the Orange's nine-deep bench. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Each man in the Rangers' locker room was disconsolate after their 3-0 loss to Ottawa Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. The players acted as if they were in the midst of a lengthy losing streak instead of having just lost for the second time in twelve games. ''It's infuriating,'' said center Brian Boyle. ''By no means are we satisfied by what we've done before January 12th.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Walking through the crowded hallway just outside the locker rooms at Yankee Stadium last week, John Sterling, unlike most everyone else, was not wearing a badge, security identification or media credential. Dressed in a crisp navy blue suit that he plucked from his closet that morning because he saw President Obama on television wearing a similar one, he merrily waved his hand as he passed attendants at various checkpoints. Swiftly down a private corridor, he marched into the office of Yankees Manager Joe Girardi, who rose from behind his desk. An animated children's program was playing on the big-screen TV above the desk, and Sterling, who was there to interview Girardi for a pregame show, pointed to it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]