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Jeremy Lin really wanted the Knicks to match and tried to lower the Rockets’ infamous offer sheet in July 2012. That is what Lin says now in an hour-long one-on-one interview with MSG Network broadcaster Mike Breen in the capper to “Linsanity Week’’ that airs Friday. Lin’s run in New York ended when owner James …

Raconteurs co-lead singer Brendan Benson is dropping his seventh solo album, “Dear Life,” on Friday, but there’s no doubt which one of his gigs has his heart. “The Raconteurs is, like, my ultimate fantasy,” says Benson, 49, of the rock band he fronts with Jack White. “That’s what I’ve always wanted to do. I always …

The Rolling Stones have released the brand-new song “Living in a Ghost Town” to tide fans over until they’re able to reschedule the upcoming leg of their No Filter tour. It’s their first original composition since “Doom and Gloom” and “One More Shot” came out on their 2012 compilation album “GRRR!,” although they did put …

The Strokes named their latest album “The New Abnormal” well before knowing what our new normal would be. “It feels so prescient because of the parallel between something like coronavirus,” says Julian Casablancas, 41, lead singer and lyricist of the New York garage-rock band. “But the name came from the [2018 California] fires, when Malibu …

Brock Aller, a longtime fixture for Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, is close to joining president Leon Rose in the Knicks front office as vice president of strategy, according to an NBA source. Aller was financial planner/capologist with Cleveland, but a source said he’ll be “more than a capologist’’ under Rose. However, Aller is not the …

Iggy Pop borrowed his pants. Beyoncé’s mom bought a studded jacket off him for her daughter’s tour. And when Debbie Harry needed someone to zip her into thigh-high boots, he was the man for the job. Jimmy Webb, who died this week at 62 from cancer, made his name outfitting rock royalty. An eccentric scenester …

Omnnivores, this is on you. According to Queen guitarist and armchair epidemiologist Brian May, the coronavirus outbreak should be blamed squarely on meat eaters. “This pandemic seemed to come from people eating animals, and it’s becoming more well known that eating animals is not the greatest thing for our health,” the 72-year-old tells NME. “We’ve …

Jimmy Webb, a downtown fixture and enthusiastic salesman and buyer at iconic East Village rocker fashion haven Trash and Vaudeville, has died, his longtime friends confirm. He was 62. “We are all going to miss our wonderful friend Jimmy Webb,” Debbie Harry, legendary Blondie frontwoman and Webb muse, 74, told The Post. “There goes a …

Billionaire Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta said he was doing fine after laying off 45,000 employees — claiming he was doing them a “favor.” “I’m holding up pretty damn good,” the Texas mogul who is said by Forbes to be worth $4.8 billion told Fox News Saturday. “But I’ve got 45,000 employees out there that …

Broadway actor Nick Cordero’s health has worsened since he was hospitalized with a possible coronavirus infection — according to his wife, Amanda Kloots, he is now in ICU and “fighting for his life”. Amanda took to Instagram and posted a photo of her and the ‘Waitress’ and ‘A Bronx Tale’ star and their son Elvis, …