Who didn't see this coming? Isiah Thomas is the biggest fan of Isiah Thomas. He's Mr Myopic. I'm sure e thinks he got Brown this great roster of players and that it was Brown's fault the team sucked.
. . . Well? Its not like Brown had 5 Ryan Bowens on the court. Francis Marburry Q. Rich Crawford Channing Frye N. Robinson The weakness is he doesn't have a "Superstar" per say, but come on.. the Knicks have talent on that roster. LB did a terrible job this year. I admit I never watched the Knicks, so I don't know if injuries played a role but - JVG did more with less (and that's not saying much) in a tougher conference.
Anyone dumb enough to put Francis and Marbury on the same roster deserves to get fired, not to be given head coaching duties.
Not only have the Knicks hit rock bottom, they've grounded themselves 15 miles below into the Earth's crust. The Knicks have officially gone to "ludicrous speed".
i almost thought it wouldn't happen just because it was so obvious and would be way too good to be true. God bless you isiah thomas. i've said it before, but the worse isiah does, the better (at least in terms of power) his jobs seem to get. now he's coach/gm, not just gm. at this rate, this MFer will be president of earth by late next year. actually, he just made $50M in one season of work! while the thought of larry brown getting all that undeserved money (plus undeserved money from detroit just b/c they wanted him to leave) makes me sick, the thought that its another great addendum to isiah's resume makes it kinda worth it. bill simmons, start your engine!
Not so fast folks. The Knicks plan NOT to pay him the $40 m, as they claim he was terminated "for cause" so as of right now he doesn't get a dime; likely this is posturing and they'll eventually agree to a buyout: "And the team indicated that it did not plan to pay him the more than $40 million left on his contract." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/s...&en=087efd39ccbfa525&ei=5094&partner=homepage
ESPN.com has learned that a clause in Brown's contract designates NBA commissioner David Stern as the arbitrator of any financial dispute between the sides, meaning the final chapter of this drama has yet to play out.
Not to excuse Isiah, because he's done a terrible job, but apparently the Brown firing was Knicks owner James Dolan's call, to be fair.
This is great on so many levels. You know the NBA is going to over-allocate nationally televised games to the Knicks now, which will just increase the audience for Isiah's inevitable humiliation. I'm sure he thinks he's going to pull an Avery Johnson. It's a league moving towards parity though, so I wouldn't be shocked to see them make the playoffs. Still, if they did, it would be of the "40-42, East #8" seed variety, which would set up an epic ass-whooping in the first round. Ideally it will just be a train-wreck though; I'm talking 120-76 scorelines to the likes of the Bobcats. I'm excited.
Brown deserves some flak for this as well. Granted his roster doesn't fit but he mailed it in this year, packed his carpetbags early and basically pulled a George Costanza and tried to get fired for the last few months. All 3 of them, Dolan, Thomas, Brown? They deserve this mess. In fact, the punishment shoudl be that they all continue in the same roles their in now.
does anybody think that the knicks owner basically said "ok isaiah, you put this team together, and larry brown cant coach them, so lets see you try. if you get to the playoffs, ill keep you around, and if the teams sucks, youre fired"
Wow. The Knicks are such a joke now. They are right about on the same level as the Hawks now as worst run franchises.
well brown benching nearly everyone on the knicks at some stage would've bruised a few egos. maybe the vets didn't want brown back?
Somehow, I do expect next year's Knicks team to be better than last year's, even if he has much the same roster. Brown was a good coach, but he did seem to go off the deep end. Bad coaching was somehow NY's biggest problem last season. Isiah will probably be less crazy.
