Aside from the prevailing notion that the Knicks the fifth-best three-point shooting team in the league won't keep missing their long-range shots forever, there is one particular statistic that works against Boston.

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That's what's been missing in this debate for too long, and that's why this announcement is so important, for it represents not only a change in policy in Washington but the harbinger of a change in the way business is done in Washington.

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Just making sure the bad ones aren't that bad whether it's a driver, 3-wood, long iron, wedge whatever it is, that I'm missing the ball in the correct spots.

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The only hitch is that the four other schools have not yet been selected, and there is no indication of who they might be or whether the interest that has obviously been missing for so long finally exists.

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Note: "As long as there are no setbacks, " Oates said, Ward is expected to play Thursday after missing the last nine regular-season games with a left knee injury.

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