New York Knicks owner James Dolan expects the team to win an NBA championship this year, but after the team has lost two of three games to start the season, Dolan reportedly "was about to erupt" on Sunday during the team's lopsided loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves and even took it out on the Knicks City Dancers, as he told them not to dance anymore.
The New York Daily News reported that Dolan was enraged during the Knicks' loss to Minnesota, where New York gave up 40 first-quarter points and that the owner went on a "manhunt" for general manager Steve Mills before finding him in a suite inside the newly renovated Madison Square Garden and chewing him out over the team's less-than-stellar start to the season.
After defeating the Milwaukee Bucks 90-83 on Opening Night on Oct. 30, the Knicks lost to the Chicago Bulls last Thursday 82-81 in a heartbreaker before falling to the Timberwolves 109-100 on Sunday, and that start has not been taken well by Dolan.
While Mills received most of the blame and the brunt of Dolan's anger, he reportedly also took it out on the team's game day entertainment as he told the Knicks City Dancers to stop dancing.
Frank Isola of the New York Daily News wrote the following about Dolan's tirade to the dancers in Tuesday's issue of the paper:
"Why? No one seems to know, except the standard answer is usually 'that's Dolan," Isola wrote in the paper about why Dolan took it out on the dancers.
Isola then reported that the Knicks City Dancers performed just once on Sunday.
According to CBS Sports, Dolan reportedly told Knicks coaches and executives that he expects nothing short of a championship in the 2013-14 season, but with 79 games remaining on the Knicks schedule perhaps his tirade was a little premature.
Knicks head coach Mike Woodson admitted that the team laid an egg Sunday in the first quarter and that a 1-2 start was unacceptable.
"That was the difference in the game," Woodson said of the first quarter per CBS Sports. "I thought the second, third and fourth quarter we played pretty good basketball, but you just can't come out on your home court and dig a hole."
Woodson better hope that hole doesn't get any deeper, otherwise it may be he who Dolan comes searching for the next time he goes on a tirade, instead of Mills and the Knicks City Dancers.
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