By MARC BERMAN
Fans pay the highest prices in the NBA to watch the Knicks at the Garden and can boo, cheer and chant whatever they want. Still, I thought it was in bad taste that a couple of hundred fans found the need to sporadically chant “Fire Isiah” in the final minute of their resounding win over the Nets.
Boo them when they stink out the joint. Chant for Isiah’s head during all the losses you want. But when the team was still trying to hold onto a six-to-eight point lead in the final minute against a Nets’ team that hadn’t given up yet, it was inappropriate. The Knicks played their butts off tonight on the second leg of a back-to-back, Eddy Curry awoke from the dead and they didn’t deserve to hear those chants right then. Isiah knows the healing will take some time and said afterward, “We have a long, long, long, long way to go.”
The season is not over yet. The Knicks are a different team when Eddy plays like the Eddy of last season and they get Stephon Marbury back Monday vs. Indy.
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I don’t like to tell war stories about the hapless airlines but my Chicago trip was too much. United Airlines couldn’t find my bag after I landed Thursday afternoon. When the office in India finally located the bag 40 hours later and set it up for delivery to the downtown Chicago Marriott, it didn’t arrive until Saturday at noon, one hour after I already checked out and headed back to New York for the Nets’ game. The performance of the United Airlines baggage service is almost as disgraceful as the Knicks. And Nets.