Hoop Hopes

NY Knick fans have been hoping that Cablevision and team owner James Dolan does one of two things, and speed is of the essence.

Sell the team. Die.

Numerous websites have commented upon the sorry state of the team, and the ones that do so with tongue in cheek had better have a care, as the billionaire owner is pissed...

DOLAN SICS HIS LAWYERS ON SITE

June 7, 2006 -- "Knicks owner James Dolan has sent his lawyers after the new Web site selltheknicks.com for peddling derogatory T-shirts with his likeness, including one with Dolan pictured in a dunce cap, The Post has learned.

According to sources, Cablevision attorney Ashima Dayal dispatched an e-mail to cafepress.com, which manufactures, distributes and handles the shirt sales for the fledging anti-Dolan Web site, whose birth was first reported in the Post's Rumble section 10 days ago.

The e-mail from Dolan's lawyer said, in part, the Dolan T-shirts, which sell for $19.99, "infringes upon their intellectual property rights." In accordance with the notice, the manufacturer has temporarily taken the T-shirts off the site."