NEW YORK – The big news inside Madison Square Garden on Monday evening had little to do with the New Jersey Nets, and even less to do with the Knicks. The resignation of Indiana GM Donnie Walsh, long to be rumored as the prime candidate to replace Isiah Thomas as team president, occupied the minds of beat writers on both sides of the Hudson River. But Thomas reserved comment, and Mark Jackson, now an announcer with both ABC and YES who previously played for the Knicks and Pacers over a 17-year career, wouldn’t elaborate of Walsh’s future. “He’s a great man, and a great basketball mind,” the former St. John’s product said before the Nets defeated the Knicks, 106-91. “It is sad to hear, knowing what he meant to the community. At the same time, I wish him nothing but the best.”

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Occasionally in a modern media culture of easily disposable headlines and news cycles that are faster than a stage of the Tour de France, the really important stories can be drowned out in the cacophony. Like, for example, when the commissioner of one of the most popular professional leagues on the face of the Earth indirectly reveals that his entire sport is basically a steaming pile of horse excrement.

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