Madison Square Garden/New York Knicks Ethics [ Updated ]

The New York Knicks finally won an NBA Championship after over half a century, bringing to a happy end one of the longest current fan base frustrations in professional sports, but also a series of ethics messes arising out of Madison Square Garden.

There were some post-victory ethics botches outside of the Garden last night. I don’t understand why winning a sports contest is provocation for a riot. I get the drunken fool effect, but even so: there were no riots in Boston when the Red Sox broke their 86 year-long World Series blight, “The Curse of the Bambino.” Gee, I wonder how many of those Knicks fans will be sent to jail for long periods on the theory that they threatened an “insurrection.” After all, President Trump made it clear that he was rooting for the Knicks. Wait, that’s it! The rioting was Trump’s fault!

Here’s an incomplete list…

4 thoughts on “Madison Square Garden/New York Knicks Ethics [ Updated ]

  1. What if the problem is that Tump and Musk aren’t approved Democrats? What if only Democrats can be Nazis and that is the actual problem, trademark infringement.

  2. I’ll take a little bit of issue with item #1. If someone in the crowd yelled “fuck” loud enough that it could be picked up by the microphones, then CBS faces fines and possibly worse from the FCC for knowingly broadcasting that over the public airwaves.

    It sounds to me like Adi Guajardo was just trying to get out in front of causing that problem for his network (and possible career repercussions for himself).

    –Dwayne

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