St. John’s on Monday got a commitment from another highly touted recruit, Michigan small forward Dom Pointer, who chose the Red Storm over his hometown Wolverines.
Pointer joins JaKarr Sampson and Maurice Harkless to give the Red Storm three of the nation’s Top 50 small forward recruits.
But they can’t help Lavin until next season. And Monday St. John’s announced power forward Justin Burrell has been lost for at least a month with a fractured bone in his left hand. Burrell avoided surgery.
Burrell suffered the injury in a drill in the first practice on Oct. 15. Burrell, Sean Evans and Dele Coker are the only true paint players on the roster.
Sources told The Post Evans has been slow to buy into Lavin’s system, and Coker remains a project.
Pointer is considered a terrific defender with good ball-handling skills. Sampson and Harkless are rated highly, but those rankings can change significantly during a player’s high school senior season and their arrival on a college campus.
The Post has learned that guard Nurideen Lindsey also is on the verge of committing, and the Red Storm believe they have a great chance with another terrific wing, Amir Garrett of California.