New Class Action Suit Accuses Thomas and Knicks' Owner of Creating Hostile Basketball Environment

Superfans Woody Allen and Spike Lee join fans' rights activist Melvin Fink in charging Knicks management with "Enron-level" malfeasance, causing "undue pain, anguish and, per Woody, unacceptable levels of ennui" For Woody Allen, the breaking point came during a mid-season game against the Washington Wizards. The Knicks were mounting a late game run to pull within three points, but instead of a racing pulse, Woody could barely stifle a yawn and fight the urge to race home for a glass of warm Ovaltine. "When Marbury dribbled into traffic and threw up an ill-advised finger roll, normally I'd want to see him beaten senseless with one of his $15 sneakers. My blood would be boiling. I mean, literally boiling. In fact, I once badly scalded two opticians sitting in Row Three when little Nate Robinson airballed a slam dunk. I'd be gripped by total, irrational rage, like an old Jew from Miami sending back a cold bowl of oatmeal. But all I felt was…intense indifference. If I wanted indifference I'd still be having once-a-month sex with Mia." For Spike Lee it was the time his old nemesis Reggie Miller came back to the Garden as a member of the Pacers' broadcast team. "For years, Reggie coming into town would get me all juiced. I hated the motherfucker. Hated. H-a-t-e-d. This time, I was almost happy to see the skinny, big eared bastard. I couldn't understand why. It was then that I realized that something was radically wrong. I just felt, I don't know…uncomfortable. Disoriented. Like coming home and finding out the locks have been changed and your wife is upstairs with a man that looks a lot like Isiah Thomas."