P.S. 21 Jump Street

By Jake Appleman/@JakeAppleman Mom was born a Newark Knick Pops, a New York Net They rarely got along, but Bro’s a shining Sun Game-changing skills, whole lotta fun. Top young childhood memories are games at the Garden, –24 and 12 for Saint Patrick, and a Brent Price sighting– …and a swim in the Bioluminescent Bay Call it a perfectly Heated Lake, O Viernes en Vieques…un viaje My teacher asked me to keep a journal; Donyell Marshall, a sign of The Times *** Flash forward, Courtside in the swamp, “Hey Jalen!” a kid shouts “My dad went to Michigan!” The rook doesn’t break stride– Still fabulous in the layup line, But perceptions change after you go Pro. Who would’ve thought the rose would grow concrete to corporate, and the web would be the dynamite? The Jackson fifth, maybe. *** College years were like Ohio: Beautiful in stretches Divisional studies in Cavaliers and Pistons Rockets and Sprocket and Ginger Spurs...