“We’ve been lucky because I had dinner with an old friend, Thierry Henry, and he’s going to play on Wednesday,” Steve Nash, one of the game’s principal organizers, said Monday in a telephone interview from a taxi in Manhattan. "It’s exciting for New York to have one of the best players in the world to come down and play on Chrystie Street." Nash, a four-time N.B.A. All-Star and the point guard for the Phoenix Suns, spends his summers in New York because “it’s an amazing city, and it’s a place my wife and I love.” The match, an eight-on-eight game, is scheduled to kick off at 5:30 p.m. at Sara D. Roosevelt Park on Chrystie Street (between Rivington and Stanton Streets). Full Article at The New York Times