

Give it up for the Nets, who performed a critical civic duty Wednesday night for their neighbors on he other side of the East River. After the last four games — really after the last four weeks or so — it didn’t seem possible that any prescription existed that could make the Knicks feel this good about themselves.

The Yankees on Wednesday signed an incumbent player — a returnee — and that is never going to draw a standing ovation from fans looking for something new and exciting. But Cody Bellinger is the absolute right move and right guy for the Yankees, who should be vastly improved without doing anything dramatic or even especially different all winter.

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