According to several reports, a group of Knicks fans were ejected from Wednesday night's game at Madison Square Garden for starting a “sell the team” chant. The Knicks have since stated that the group was not ejected, but the fans are claiming that they, in fact, were.
The group of four cousins were escorted out of the arena and interrogated for 15 minutes, according to Marc Berman of the New York Post. John, a member of the group that asked for last name anonymity, says they were told that they violated the Garden’s code of conduct.
“My cousins and I decided to start a ‘sell the team’ chant after another losing night in the Garden,” John, 22, said in a message to the New York Post. “We were immediately escorted out of our seats by eight-plus security guards and were interrogated for 15 minutes.
“Which led us to (being) fully escorted out because we violated ‘the Madison Square Garden code of conduct.’ The exit they took us out of was the same exit Spike Lee was talking about earlier this week.”
John says he's proud to be the one who started the chant:
“We are proud to say we started that chant,” John stated, via the New York Post. “They just kept telling us we broke code of conduct and are not welcome back to our seats. We had to wait for a supervisor to see what his verdict was and he agreed with the usher/security guards that we had to leave and he was the one who escorted us out.”
The Knicks have been making headlines for the wrong reasons as of late. Earlier this week, legendary director and long-time Knicks supporter Spike Lee found himself in a verbal dispute with security officials at The Garden for using an employee entrance. Interestingly, Lee noted that he had used the same entrance for years. The Knicks countered, however, noting that they had previously asked Lee to use a “VIP” entrance.
Lee has since stated that he will not be attending any more Knicks games at The Garden this season.
The Knicks will be back in action on Friday night, when they'll serve as hosts to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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