Knicks See Smaller Crowd In First Game After Spike Lee Spat

Spike Lee last night followed through on his promise not to attend Knicks games after his spat with the team, and he was not the only one "who no-showed" at Jazz-Knicks at MSG. The venue was "uncharacteristically scattered with sections of empty seats" in the first game since the team's spat with its high-profile celebrity fan. The announced attendance of 16,588 was "well short" of a capacity crowd (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 3/5).

Meanwhile, a Knicks fan who chanted "Sell the Team" with his friends at the game said he was “interrogated” by security for 15 minutes before leaving MSG. The fan posted a video on Twitter of him and at least three friends "being surrounded by six security guards and one police officer." The fan said that the security guard "threatened them with arrest but they are allowed back at the Garden" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 3/5).