- <ul> <li><strong>INCREASED INTEREST CAN MEAN BIGGER BUDGETS :</strong></li> </ul> City recreation programs tend to have their budgets squeezed during hard economic times but as Smith explains, a relevant pro sports team creates civic pride and that has a significant trickle-down effect. “New York is a basketball city and having a good Knicks team impacts youth and high school basketball,” he says. “Kids get better by watching pros play and more people are interested in seeing what’s going on. It can have an impact in ways we don’t even know.”
![BIG STARS SPREAD THE WEALTH:“[The trade] impacts coaching a lot,” says Smith. “When the Knicks are good and St. John’s are good, it brings a different energy to the city; a kid from Detroit might come to Manhattan College or Fordham University. You can recruit on a larger scale, a kid could look at it like, ‘Basketball is important in New York and I’d like to go there.’ Maybe that team plays better and makes the NCAA tournament now and that school is seen in a better light, school salaries are raised, etc.”](http://cdn-live2.blackenterprise.net/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/02/Knicks-fans.jpg "Knicks-fans")
- <li><strong>BIG STARS SPREAD THE WEALTH:</strong></li></ul>“[The trade] impacts coaching a lot,” says Smith. “When the Knicks are good and <strong>St. John’s</strong> are good, it brings a different energy to the city; a kid from Detroit might come to <strong>Manhattan College</strong> or <strong>Fordham University</strong>. You can recruit on a larger scale, a kid could look at it like, ‘Basketball is important in New York and I’d like to go there.’ Maybe that team plays better and makes the NCAA tournament now and that school is seen in a better light, school salaries are raised, etc.”
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