Isaiah to coach Knicks. Adios Larry

Well they did make the playoffs in one of his seasons, even if they did so with a losing record and got swept by the Nets in the first round. :

 

Aside from the obvious, the interesting part here is that they are refusing to pay him the rest of his contract, claiming he was let go "for cause". Unless there's something here we don't know. I assume Stern will smack them down, & make them pay.

I hope he also imposes a fine big enough to force Dolan to sell.

 

I think Lary Brown is an absolute jackass and one of the most overrated coaches in history, one who tanked on his team as much as his team tanked on him last season.
But for fuckwad Dolan to try to withhold the $40 million saying he was fired "for cause" is the most asinine thing I've ever heard.
Seriously, among Brown, Zeke and Dolan there is no good guy here, but Dolan takes being a scumbag to a new low.

 

Ohhhhhh no. David Stern hates Larry Brown with a white-hot hatred for his galactic-class tank job with the 2004 Olympic team, when he intentionally lost games to stick it to the selection committee of USA Basketball (aka David Stern). If anything, Stern will quietly pass the word among the owners that Larry Brown is never to work in the league again. (So look for him to pop up as a 'consultant' to Mark Cuban. Avery Johnson, watch your ass. )

The Knicks will be 5-8 games better on the court next season, because Isiah Thomas won't be intentionally throwing games to prove what a genius he is. He'll lose plenty on his own merits, but at least he won't be tanking.

 

Sorry, Ragu, but your entire hypothesis is unrealistic.

Jamal Crawford is Jalen Rose-lite. As someone who watched Eddy Curry play in Chicago for four years, he is gifted on the offensive end, but is completely lost on defense and on the boards.

Steve Francis may be less of a prick than Marbury, but he's close. And will never lead a winning team unless he's second or third banana. Frye and Lee are about the only keepers on that roster; Nate Robinson is a shooting guard trapped in the body of a 5-foot-nothing point guard, and he doesn't have the heart of Iverson to succeed on this level.

But at least the Knicks have some good lottery picks the next two years ... wait, no they don't.

Thanks, Isiah!

 

Then they'll get out the hypodermic needles and syringes and get down to business.

 

I'd hate to have to pay Larry Brown $40 million to take a hike. He's done it for free so often.

 

With both the Olympic team and this year's Knicks, Larry Brown intentionally threw games in order to demonstrate how bad things were gonna be if he was forced to play with the roster he was given by team management, and how horrible the team would be if they would not or could not "Play The Right Way," Larry Brown's own personal vision of how the game must be played.

Typical junior-high schoolgirl temper tantrum. "I told you, if we didn't get the players I wanted, that we were going to suck!! And we suck!! See,we lost again!! And again!! I told you, I told you, I told you. We suck, we suck, we suck. Nah-nah-nah-na-nahh nahhhh!!!"

 

Re: Knicks fire Brown; Zeke named coach

Just to clarify, vid: Thomas didn't run a CBA team in the ground. That would not have been lofty enough for his efforts. He ran the whole league into the ground and halfway to the earth's core.

 

Spnited, among those three, there's about enough goodness to spread over the end of a needle. And maybe that's too much space.