Watchdog

The ongoing feud between the Knicks and the Daily News took another weird turn Monday.

Beat writer Frank Isola - who has been tailed by Garden security officials for much of the season - wrote in his followup story about Isiah Thomas' job status that it was Barry Watkins, the Garden's VP of communications, that leaked the news Thomas is safe to Newsday, the Post and the Times Saturday night.

I don't know that to be true, but it's extraordinarily unusual for any newspaper to out an alleged source for another newspaper, and it's another example of just how weird things have gotten around MSG.

(Come to think of it, there was a time late last season in which one reporter surmised that the source for a reporter from another paper was Tiki Barber. But that only was in a blog, so maybe it doesn't count.)