NEW YORK, June 10 -- The watch party ended when the game did. As the final buzzer sounded inside Madison Square Garden on Monday night and the Knicks' Game 3 loss became official, the crowd that had filled Bryant Park spilled west onto 42nd Street, and a city block in the middle of Manhattan stopped behaving like one.

By the time the NYPD restored order, 21 people had been taken into custody, eight of them arrested and charged, two with assaulting an officer, and 13 more released with criminal court summonses, the department said Tuesday. Five members of the NYPD were injured. Officers used pepper spray to break up a crowd that, by the police account, spent the better part of an hour fighting, ripping out street signs, uprooting trees, c...