4:40PM Monday
March 25, 2013

P.J. Carlesimo had some interesting things to say during an interview with the YES network Since becoming the interim head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, P.J. Carlesimo has revived the struggling Nets from an underachieving team, to having a solid chance of winning the Eastern Conference's Atlantic division. Carlesimo recently had an interview with the YES networkin which he opened up to everything from Jay-Z being his favorite musician to expressing his sadness and anger about college basketball's Big East breaking up. Here are some of the questions and answers from the interview: On the demise and restructuring of the Big East Conference: "I try not to think about it because I get either really sad or really angry. It's hard to understand exactly why. I mean, football drove that league even from the beginning, so many of the things we did were to keep the football schools there. That's why you had different teams coming in at different times. But for a league that has meant so much to those instituti