Taylor King, who has played for Duke and Villanova will not be coming to USC after all, a USC spokesman confirmed Tuesday.

King is a former McDonald's All-American who became notable for committing to UCLA as a 15-year-old.

A source close to USC said that King "didn't want to pay" to come to USC, which he would have had to do in the upcoming season because the Trojans didn't have a scholarship to offer him.

In an exhibition game in Canada, incoming freshman point guard Brandon Knight scored 31 points for Kentucky.

"Brandon scores 31 points on 19 shots, makes every free throw and doesn't turn the ball over his first time out," Calipari said. "Let me say this guys, he was nervous before the game. He wanted to go throw up. I said, `If you don't have butterflies and aren't nervous before the game you probably shouldn't play for me."'

Attendees of the Dyckman Park Basketball game at Watson Gleason Playground last Saturday confirm that Villanova's Corey Fisher scored 105 points.

"At the end of the third quarter, I had 71 points," Fisher told the Daily News. "I was pretty tired. But I kept pushing. I continued to score and score."

Fisher's performance bests by five points what is believed to be the previous record, set in 1978 by the legendary Fly Williams in Jamaica, Queens.

Anthony Davis, a 6-foot-10 forward from Chicago, committed to John Calipari and the Kentucky Wildcats on Friday, his father confirmed.

Davis, who is rated the No. 5 player in the nation by the Scout.com recruiting service and No. 8 overall by Rivals.com, picked Kentucky over Ohio State, Syracuse and DePaul.

Davis joins 6-6 forward Michael Gilchrist of Somderdale, N.J., and 6-2 point guard Marquis Teague of Indianapolis as top-10 prospects in the class of 2011 committed to play for Kentucky.

"Coach Calipari is easy to talk to and he listens to what you are saying," Davis told ESPN recruiting writer Paul Biancardi on Friday in explaining his choice. "(Calipari) will be a father figure to me away from home. He's a demanding coach that will not tell me what I want to hear, but what I need to hear to improve."

Sources tell Ken Berger of CBS Sports that the Knicks will have a very difficult time being able to get the NBA league office to approve an arrangement that allows Isiah Thomas to formally consult with the Knicks while retaining his position as head coach at Florida International University.

NBA team officials are not allowed to have the level of pre-draft contact and regular interaction with college players that a college coach like Thomas is required to as part of his job.

It will likely be found to violate the NBA's rules for team personnel to hold this type of dual occupation.

If the Knicks are permitted to retain Thomas' services in such a manner, it could open the floodgates on NBA teams hiring members of college teams in order to give those NBA teams an inside track on college players.

"I think it's going to blur the line to such a degree that teams are going to say, 'OK it's a competitive disadvantage if we don't have a guy,'" a team basketball operations official said. "So they're going to go get guys, whether they're low-level coaches or whatever. All these teams and executives are going to say, 'Hold on, this is a different message you're sending us.'"

Berger also refutes reports that Donnie Walsh threatened to quit when Thomas was hired.  Berger calls these reports "not entirely true."

Sources say that Dolan first discussed bringing Thomas back with Walsh, who indicated he wouldn't object to Thomas returning in the consulting role he held before accepting the offer from FIU.  But Walsh made it known that he did not want Thomas having a full-time position in the daily operations of the Knicks.

NBA commissioner David Stern may allow Isiah Thomas to continue coaching at Florida International despite joining the Knicks last week as a consultant.

The league announced soon after New York's agreement with Thomas that they would determine whether or not a conflict of interest was involved.

"I'm hearing that David Stern will not prevent Isiah from working for the Knicks while coaching at FIU," Frank Isola of the New York Daily News wrote on his Twitter page.

Isiah Thomas will continue to serve as the head coach at Florida International for now.

The Knicks hired Thomas as a consultant on Friday.

NBA spokesman Tim Frank said the league is "reviewing the agreement, in consultation with the Knicks, for compliance with league rules."

In a Friday telephone interview, Donnie Walsh said there were no plans for Isiah Thomas to resume a full-time position with the Knicks.  Walsh said Thomas had initiated the discussions on returning to the team in some formal capacity.

"Isiah can help us in the areas that he?ll consult with us in," Walsh said.

"He?s a good basketball man," continued Walsh. "He will not be full time with us up at the training center. I think he wanted to be involved with us, and I think it came from Isiah to begin with."

A source with knowledge of the Knicks? strategy who was not authorized to speak said that some in the organization believe that Thomas might be able to relate to the present generation of franchise players in a way that Walsh and Mike D?Antoni cannot.

Thomas is expected to be actively involved in recruiting Carmelo Anthony to join the Knicks if he becomes a free agent next summer.

Insiders with the Knicks also told the New York Times that Thomas is not in the running to re-take control over the team's basketball operations.

"Speculative nonsense, organizational insiders are saying," writes Harvey Araton about the chatter that Thomas could eventually replace Walsh as the team's chief decision-maker.

Isiah Thomas has been hired as a consultant by the Knicks, giving the team's former president and head coach an official role with the organization.

Thomas' position will be in a part-time capacity and he will remain head coach at Florida International.

Thomas played a role in helping the Knicks with free-agent recruitment this summer.

"I?m excited to once again be a part of the New York Knicks organization. I was honored to have been asked to help during the recent free-agent recruiting process, and believe that this new role takes full advantage of my skill set as an evaluator of basketball talent," Thomas said in a statement released by the Knicks.

"While I will of course continue in my role as FIU?s coach," continued the statement, "I look forward to working with Donnie (Walsh), Coach (Mike) D?Antoni and all of the Knicks staff to help bring a championship back to New York."

The Knicks' statement indicates that Thomas "will assist the team?s senior management in various capacities, including player recruitment."

Will Barton may not be academically eligible this season to join the University of Memphis.

Barton would have opportunities to play in Europe or the NBA Developmental League next season before entering the NBA draft next June if he does not become eligible.

Barton was a member of Team USA for the Nike Hoop Summit.