Angry Knicks fan rips off jersey and walks out

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He didn't have a white flag to wave, so a frustrated New York fan sitting behind one of the baskets in Boston on Thursday night ripped off his blue Knicks jersey, flung it onto the court and marched angrily up the stairs and out of the building after the Celtics took a 50-point lead in their 104-59 clobbering of the Knicks.

Celtics fans applauded the guy.

"I've never lost that bad in my life," Knick guard Quentin Richardson said of a loss that once again has started the media watch for Isiah Thomas' firing.

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Beno Udrih, the former San Antonio Spur traded to the Wolves for about 20 seconds before they cut him last month in a salary-cap bookkeeping deal, scored in double figures in seven of his eight games off the bench for Sacramento, which signed him as a free agent after the Wolves immediately waived him. The Slovenian point guard scored 27 against his former Spurs team on Monday.

"I thought they might keep him," Spurs coach Greg Popovich said of the Wolves. "He was our third point guard, and he wasn't going to play, so we thought we kind of owed it to him. Now, people see he can play. He's going to get a contract someplace because he can play. It would have been awful if he had just sat for us all season."

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Dallas coach Avery Johnson is trying to be less demonstrative on the bench this season because he wants his players to be more vocal.

"It's hard," he said. "My wife called me after [a recent loss] and she's begging me to get back to my old self. But I've just got to wait because we need Devin Harris to talk more, we need Dirk [Nowitzki] and Josh Howard to talk more. It's got to be that way."

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