The chant bubbled up organically and quickly. The Knicks had already had a bad night, but that was no outlier. They have had plenty of those this season and over the past 20 years. Knicks fans had grown frustrated, grown angry, grown tired of another year of this. Of 13-36, of another six-month-long slog to the lottery, of 127-106 — the final score of their loss to the Grizzlies Wednesday night — and the 13 other times this season New York has lost by 20 or more points.
But they had never groaned quite like this. Not in resentment, not in dissatisfaction, not in whatever emotions lived inside Knicks fans at this moment. All that had usually been muted before they entered Madison Square Garden’s doors. There were boos, lots of them, loud choruses of them, a ritual that had lost its edge because of how often they rang out.
If there is one cardinal rule there, however, it’s to steer clear of the owner. One fan was thrown out and barred for saying it to…
