NBA playoff pressure? Fuhgeddaboudit. If they're playing like a superstar, they're probably from N.J.

The Big Apple, after all, produced historic names like Lew Alcindor (who became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), Earl “The Goat” Manigault, Connie Hawkins, Bernard and Albert King, Kenny Smith, Kenny Anderson, Dwayne “Pearl” Washington, Mark Jackson, Chris Mullin, Stephon Marbury and Lance Stephenson, to name a handful. “Jersey was in the shadow of New York City for quite a long time,” Hurley, the Naismith Hall of Fame coach, said Tuesday by phone.