Stephon Marbury was icing his shoulder in the locker room as the Knicks were falling behind by 17 to the Milwaukee Bucks and likely pushing Isiah Thomas closer to the exit once and for all.
There may yet come a day when Madison Square Garden chairman James Dolan says enough is enough and puts a stop to the Thomas era. The players seemed to do that symbolically 24 hours earlier in Boston.
But in New York you are always one win away from making a comeback and Friday night Thomas` team, minus Marbury, made a comeback that gave the sparse Garden crowd and the head coach new life.
"Every time you lose a game in New York, you`re on Death Row here," Thomas said following the Knicks` dramatic 91-88 victory at the Garden. "So tonight they unstrapped the belts and I get to walk. Had we lost, I`m sure they`d have wet me down." (...)
