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On Thursday night, near the end of another of those 37-point Knick routs that felt as if it should count as more than a single loss, word came that the team’s owner, Jim Dolan, as well as the team’s president and its general manager had vacated their seats and disappeared underneath the stands of Madison Square Garden.
My heart leapt. Was it too much to hope they might gather in a conference room and all agree to fire each other?
Alas, it was not to be. Instead, Knicks management announced on Friday afternoon that they had fired another coach.