There are many things you can chalk up to computer accidents. For example, take every Microsoft product ever made. But scheduling the Washington Wizards in Madison Square Garden on opening night? "You don't schedule the Wizards at New York on opening night by the computer," Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy says.

"He's definitely coming back, and I think it's great," Van Gundy says. "I never bought into the idea that he had to leave a certain way. But I believe greatness like his, which has never been matched before, should play all the way through for one team. It will be very hard seeing him in another uniform. It will be like Patrick (Ewing), except that we're talking about a different level of greatness."

Ian O'Connor of The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News and USA Today also discusses more with Van Gundy about a possible return of MJ to the NBA.