We talked to someone who was at the Knicks game in Boston Thursday night and he told us he saw something he'd never seen at a sporting event before––a fan ripping off his team's jersey and throwing it onto the court in disgust. The Boston crowd loved it. The gesture came as the Knicks were trailing the Celtics by 50 points in what would come as the team's second-worst scoring performance in the history of......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: Intoxicated students at a Queens high school, a water rescue near East 14th in the East River, and a body was found in Van Cortlandt Park Subway Stickman, or how to turn gum on the ground into floor art Because of the Minuteman Brawl, the College Republicans at Columbia will get a refund from the university The NYPD has decided to have an outside firm examine its stop-and-frisk procedures,......

Scuttlebutt from Knicks sources is that Knicks owner James Dolan (owner of Cablevision) and MSG president Steve Mills are willing to buy out pricey remaining four years on coach Larry Brown's contract. And not only that, the new coach could be general manager Isaiah Thomas. Management has been upset with Brown's criticism of players to the media, but let's face it - who hasn't been criticizing the most expensive NBA roster with the second worst......

With news that Brooklyn might be the new home of the Nets, Knicks owner, Jim Dolan of Cablevision, is lobbying the NBA's commissioner to keep New York a one basketball team town. Oh, come on, by the time the Nets move to Brooklyn, the Knicks might have a decent team in place, but that's only if Isaiah Thomas don't trade the next ten years' worth of first round draft picks in iffy player deals. The......

Leave it to the Knicks to make the firing of coach Don Chaney as horrible as possible: Rumors are rampant that Mike Fratello is going to be hired as coach, as Chaney shows up before practice; then right before the game, he's told he's fired, leaving security to escort him and his wife out of the Madison Square Garden. That's really not classy, even if Chaney reportedly said with relief, "I'm not coaching tonight." And......