The Nets are running a series of youth basketball clinics the next few weeks on both sides of the Hudson. As usual, their youth ambassador, Darryl Dawkins, is running the show.

He did some coaching last season at the community college level but as he tells the Post, that was more fun; this is more deadly serious. ""We are trying to get the role model to not be a drug dealer," he said. "Let the role model be somebody else".