Time Warner, MSG Win as Lin and Knicks Slide

Time Warner, MSG Win as Lin and Knicks Slide:
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- A month after "Linsanity" hit its peak in the New York area, there are a trail of winners and losers on and of the court.a
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During a torrid 7 straight wins with Knicks phenom Jeremy Lin in the lineup, New York hoops diehards, fair-weather fans and even the Governor were crying foul on a standoff betweenaMadison Square Garden, the owner of the Knicks television rights, andaTime Warner Cable, a powerhouse cable provider to the region. While the standoff benched Lin in the living rooms of nearly 3 million local viewers, a truce brokered hours before the tip off of Lin's 8th start may have been the high watermark of Linsanity.


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Jeremy Lin helped end a MSG and Time Warner standoff, but who won?
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Since MSG and Time Warner settled, the Knicks have cooled to a 6 win and 9 loss record, but the best New York basketball story in a generation has created off-court financial winners and losers.
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