Practice had been over for an hour, with most of the other Knicks players already gone, but the gym door remained shut.

I wonder how many more youngsters across the globe pushed open a gym door for the same reason.

The gym door opened, and he could hear the thump of basketballs against the floor.

He watched the gym doors slide open in front of him and marched inside.

He was stopped at the gym door, which was locked.

In sorrow he watched her cross to the gym door and pull it open.

Mark Dolan signaled to two officers, who were already in position on either side of the gym doors.

I waited until they'd drifted away into various vehicles and then tried the gym door.

"I remember getting ticked off as a kid when the gym doors were closed and there was nothing else to do," he said.

Ms. Young was standing by the gym door talking to a girl Sam didn't know.