Published 12/19/2007
at FOXSports.com News for NBA
New York Knicks fans angry over the team's losing streak rallied outside Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, holding aloft a giant pink slip and calling on management to fire coach Isiah Thomas.
Chanting "Fire Isiah! He's got to go! Good-bye!" two dozen irate fans signed the 8-by-4-foot pink placard urging Garden chief executive James Dolan to dump the coach, whose team is 7-17 going into Wednesday night's game with Cleveland.
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Led by a 67-year old dentist from Long Island, Knicks fans angry over the team's
losing streak rallied outside Madison Square Garden on Wednesday,
holding aloft a giant pink slip and calling on Garden management to
fire coach Isiah Thomas.
