Quick Hits....

"Every chance you get, you throw out rumors about him. I’m not even gonna denigrate or sully his name by bringing up what those rumors have been over the years -- it’s spanned years! Even if those rumors were true, oh, it was years ago. It was years ago" -- ESPN's Stephen A. Smith, on Mark Jackson no longer having a part-time role on the Knicks’ broadcast team (N.Y. POST, 11/20).