Anti-Dolan Protest Headed For Garden

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  1. Shapecity

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    <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">June 21, 2006 -- James Dolan's lawyers already stopped Selltheknicks.com from peddling dunce-cap T-shirts with his likeness, but the Knicks' eccentric owner can't do anything about a draft-night protest planned for next week by the new Web site.

    According to the founder, known as Mr. Orange, the Web site is planning an anti-Dolan protest that will begin next Wednesday at 3 p.m. at the ESPN Zone in Times Square. The group eventually will march to the World's Most Disgraced Arena and vocally attend the NBA Draft at the Garden's Theatre.

    The protesters will don Web site T-shirts and carry anti-Dolan signs. Two weeks ago, the Web site was threatened with legal action because it "infringes on their intellectual property rights," peddling a shirt with Dolan's likeness in a dunce cap.

    The standard web site T-shirt bears the simple slogan "Sell The Knicks." In replacing the dunce-cap shirt, the founders added a new one, with the transposed inscription "Duck Folan," that the founders say has sold the most rapidly. The founders are concerned Garden security will forbid anti-Dolan T-shirt wearers from entering the Garden.

    "Since Dolan won't give us the time of day, the protest is to get the attention of [NBA commissioner] David Stern, who will be there, and the ESPN cameras," Mr. Orange told The Post.

    There's hope Stern will mediate this mess once the NBA finals are over. By draft night, there's a good chance Dolan will have finally announced Larry Brown's dismissal and Isiah Thomas' appointment as head coach, but a summer-long court battle could ensue if the Knicks try to give Brown less than his $40 million.

    Signals are his removal will be made official before Wednesday's draft, before July 1's free agency and Las Vegas summer league. Recruiting free agents with Brown still twisting is lunacy. Of course, Dolan is so unpredictable the joke around the league is he could wait until the night before training camp.


    As Brown left the facility after running more pre-draft workouts yesterday, he was in no mood to talk to the group of 10 media members waiting for him at a traffic light one block from the Westchester facility.

    Brown waved off the group with his arms as he pulled up in his gray Audi and said, "Can't talk. You [the media] got me in trouble. Can't talk." </div>

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    Just when you think the Knicks have hit rock bottom as a franchise, they prove you wrong again.
     
  2. Mr. J

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    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting shapecity:</div><div class="quote_post">Source

    Just when you think the Knicks have hit rock bottom as a franchise, they prove you wrong again.</div>
    It can't get worse than this. Even though I said that before.
     
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    Stern will have them tazored away!
     
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    I`m glad to see the NY fans make a stand after the season they put up with.
     
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    I've heard about it. I went on the site and see what exactly they were going to do, sounds like a good idea.
     
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    The best shirt I saw had "Duck Folan" written on it.
     

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