A New York Knicks fan thinks of point guards the way a parched person thinks of water. Over much of Mike Breen ’s half-century association with the club, first as a Yonkers-bred die-hard and then as the play-by-play voice of the team’s radio and television affiliates, the Knicks have looked high and low for competency at the position, imagined how it might correct their misfortunes, and watched one homegrown player after another flourish elsewhere professionally. “We’re a city that prides itself on point guards,” Breen said. “Many of them never played for the Knicks, obviously.”

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