http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2305164 Former Knicks executive sues Thomas, MSG New York Knicks president Isiah Thomas has been accused of sexual harassment and sex discrimination in a lawsuit filed by a former team executive Tuesday in federal court in New York. Anucha Browne Sanders, 43, claims Thomas made unwanted advances and says she was fired as the Knicks' senior vice president of marketing and business operations after she made the complaints, according to a report in the New York Times. The suit also says her supervisor, Madison Square Garden Sports president Steve Mills, failed to aid her in the matter. Madison Square Garden also is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, which seeks Browne Sanders' reinstatement and unspecified damages. "I'm outraged at the termination," Browne Sanders told The Times in a story in Tuesday's editions. "I feel they've destroyed a stellar sports career." The lawsuit brought by Browne, who had been with the Knicks since 2000, charges Thomas and The Garden with two counts of sex discrimination and two counts of retaliation. Ron Green, a lawyer for Madison Square Garden, called the lawsuit "fabricated and outrageous" and said Browne Sanders was trying for a "financial windfall." The Knicks said they fired Browne Sanders after investigating her complaint and finding no evidence to support it. A statement released by Thomas' lawyers called the lawsuit a "cynical attempt to get a large sum of money from Madison Square Garden by taking advantage of the celebrity status of our client." Browne Sanders, the fourth-leading women's basketball scorer in Big Ten history, alleges in her lawsuit the work environment within Madison Square Garden changed drastically after Thomas was hired in Dec. 2003, according to The Times report. What a disaster the Knicks are. They are in the fast track to being the worst sports franchise in North America.
Maybe it's just the way they reported it, but does this seem like a rational personnel move? An employee complains inside the company about sexual harrassment. They find no proof of it, so they fire the complainant? That looks bad.
how can you go back to a normal working relationship after you have claimed your boss harrassed you? doesn't seem irrational to me at all.
hmm espn isn't gay like the rest of the news was watching espn news this mornign and they actually said ha RASS ment instead of this bull**** harrisment there's no ****ing RISS in harassment. ..... carry on.
If it's true, I want Isiah Thomas to be heavily punished not for sexual harrasment, but for incredibly bad taste.
true but even if he wanted a "non-hottie chic" theres more than enough able and willing,i am just sayin he doesnt have to force himself onto chics, but ya i agree with some of those lack of beauties
Me too! All those pound in to the hole and the "length" of players references when he was in broadcasting I guess? The one that got me, was during one of the Bulls playoff runs saying that "the bulls be so long, they bench is so interchangeable and pound it to the rim." .......with a slight lisp of course. My friends and I quoted that for an entire year I think. Funny stuff.
