You might want to sit down for this: We have reports of more weirdness at Madison Square Garden. Leo Standora of the
New York Daily News reports a 22-year-old SUNY student was arrested during Wednesday's game against the Kings for hawking anti-
Isiah Thomas t-shirts outside the Garden. The odd part? They locked him up for the duration of the game, then let him go with a fine once the Knicks had lost.
Around a photo of beleaguered Knicks coach Isiah Thomas, black lettering on the bright orange shirts delivers the message, "Don't hate the player or the game. Hate the coach."
"The police came up to me at every game before and asked me what I was doing," said Cash. "I told them. They shrugged, and that was that." But not Wednesday night.
I'm sure the NYPD just had a solitary revelation that unlicensed peddling of wares in Manhattan is worthy of police attention, and the jailing just happened to last three hours. No chance of funny business there.
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. huh, how ironic. what that guy should do, is sell the tshirts after the game. because after the obvious loss that will happen, people will then buy more shirts, without team interference
Posted at 12:38PM on Jan 4th 2008 by Bobz
2. Not only the dolan's have a control on MSG but on the NY police as well this is scary and I question legal ?? The monopoly that they have is by taking the fans out the game ( the ones they disaproved of ) and not respecting freedom of expression is worst then the maffia in fact papa dolan and his retarded son are making aware to the fans that we are the law in our turf and you don't like we can prosecute and give you a fine let's showthese kiks that we are free in this country and is no royalty here or maffia like running MSG let's do something NY!
Posted at 12:50PM on Jan 4th 2008 by frank
3. In past Knicks games, I had in fact been selling shirts after the game.
Shirts are available at http://www.hatethecoach.com by the way.
Posted at 1:39PM on Jan 4th 2008 by Ivan Cash
4. You know you guys hate coaches so much. Why don't you try doing it with some spoil millionaire Kids see how far you get with them. I wish I had a talk show so ass wholes like you guys could call in and I could give them a piece of my mind. If a player gives up and is getting paid he should be fired not the coach. You can't stop doing your job where you work if you don't like your boss? Think about it you dummies.
Posted at 2:31PM on Jan 4th 2008 by disco Dannon
5. That's disgusting.
Hopefully these shirts explode now.
Someone should give one to Isiah...or hope the players start wearing them.
Posted at 4:26PM on Jan 4th 2008 by Andrew V.
6. I guess the definition of "dummy" is someone who has the ability to, like, punctuate.
Posted at 4:31PM on Jan 4th 2008 by SLaird22
7. New York deserves Dolan. The rest of the country is pleased because we don't have the Don in our cities. We can take alot but the level of stupidity shown by Doland exceeds even our usual indifference to a sport more at home on the Harlem streets than in a civilized facility. Dolan and the thugs...a match made in ........not heaven.
Posted at 7:44PM on Jan 4th 2008 by GreatR
8.
I guess when Stern had his Ned-Beatty-in-Network-type meeting with Dolan the Elder, it didn't really go as planned. Didn't Daddy just tell Emperor Stern to shove it?
I'm still waiting for a little reaction from the Emperor on that one.
Also, you tough NooYawkas might make some kind of impression if you stopped going to the f*cking games. "Buy the tickets and boo." or "Buy the tickets and cheer.", I think you're missing out on the option that might actually influence these yahoos.
Posted at 10:47AM on Jan 5th 2008 by trollificus
9. Any team doing as poorly as the Knlcks. Everyone would think that the coach has to be a big part of the problem. This way of stopping fans from voiceing their dismay. Is bordering on the absurd. He should have lost his job over his actions off the court. ( Imus )If the world was a fair and balanced place. This would now be a non-issue. Because he would have been gone already!
Posted at 12:01PM on Jan 5th 2008 by Shadow
10. Read an interview with Ivan here! http://mvn.com/nba-fantasy/2008/01/05/its-a-crime-to-be-a-knicks-fan-literally-an-interview-with-ivan-cash/
Posted at 5:19PM on Jan 5th 2008 by Chris
11. He probably had a better time in jail than he would have had inside MSG actually watching the Knicks. The cops did him a favor.
Posted at 12:47PM on Jan 6th 2008 by Danno
12. I have a solution to this whole Thomas mess...FIRE HIM!!!!!!!!
Posted at 8:10PM on Jan 6th 2008 by Steve
13. this guy is just lucky that they didn't hold him until after the knicks WON.
Posted at 3:31AM on Jan 7th 2008 by chris
14. Isiah was the GM and made these decisions. Apparently the players are terrible, and that makes the decisions maker(AKA Isiah) terrible GM and Coach. Get rid of Thomas and bring in a basketball GM and a actual Coach that has respect of his players. NO one on or off the court respects this idiot. He has taken a trouble team and made them a joke and his ego is the only thing that matters.
Locking up a T Shirts selling guy, lock up the man pretending to be a GM and Coach!!!
Posted at 3:40PM on Jan 8th 2008 by k