When he's not calling the Knicks as the team's radio voice, broadcaster Mike Crispino has gotten a chance to do what most NBA fans haven't done — watch top-5 draft prospect, point guard Emmanuel Mudiay and ex-Knick Stephon Marbury play in China.
Crispino has broadcast about 20 Chinese Basketball Association games this season for a fledgling cable station, One World Sports, from a studio. He called the Marbury-vs.-Mudiay matchup Monday — Game 4 of the CBA semifinals.
Marbury's Beijing squad ended Mudiay's season, 106-104, as Guangdong was ousted, 3-1.
Mudiay largely had been off the radar after suffering a high ankle sprain in late November. Monday's game was only his second game back. The former Dallas high-schooler who jumped to Asia instead of the NCAA notched 15 points, eight assists and seven rebounds, but Marbury outshone him with a 38-point night and key 3-pointer that sent the game to overtime.
In Game 3, his official return, Mudiay put up 28 points, eight assists and eight rebounds.
"I did a couple of his games early on and he looked like a high school player who didn't look physically up to being in a professional league — he looked like a teenager,'' Crispino told The Post at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis Wednesday before the Knicks were routed by the Pacers. "He showed flashes of being a good basketball player but nothing like he'd be a top-5 pick.''
Nevertheless, when Crispino caught Mudiay in Monday's contest after missing three months, his opinion changed. The Knicks can assure themselves of a top-4 pick if they remain as the league's worst team.
Certainly, they are in play for the 19-year-old.
"He looked totally different, he filled out, hit the weight room, he looked more like a grown man — if you can say that about a 19-year-old,'' Crispino said. "He was more confident. But he's still doing a lot of things that are just mistakes — that you wouldn't do if you had experience under your belt. He's still very inexperienced as a basketball player on the professional level.''
Crispino also does college games for ESPN and said the CBA is a higher level of basketball, perhaps better to prepare a prospect for the NBA.
"It's a little above the D-League,'' Crispino said. "It's got a 24-second clock. It's a 48-minute game.''
When it doesn't conflict with the Knicks upcoming West Coast trip, Crispino will broadcast the CBA Finals as Marbury goes for his third Chinese title.
"He looks the same as when he was here six years ago,'' Crispino said. "He's not scoring crazy points in China, but he runs the team.''
The Knicks will complete their home-and-home set with Indiana on Saturday at the Garden, and center Roy Hibbert will play.
Without him, the Pacers beat the Knicks by 23 points Wednesday and are the hottest NBA team since the start of February at 9-2.
In explaining how the Knicks can win two straight, then lose by a combined 61 points to the Kings and Pacers, coach Derek Fisher said: "We have nine guys [on the roster] who are pretty young who don't know how to do that just that [recover from a bad game].
"As the season wraps up, it's a great experience for these guys to learn what it takes to be good night in, night out. That doesn't necessarily mean we'll win every night. There's a standard we have to set.''
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