Knicks-Nuggets megabrawl??

"This will not be a lasting issue." - Stern in his teleconference with reporters.
Bull shit... by the way, why did it take nearly 36 hours to come down with these meager suspensions?

 

Melo already did when he said Isiah told him and Camby to stay out of the lane

 

Bet you that's not what he told Stu Jackson.

 

How about this for the new team slogan, based on Isiah's quote:

2006-07 New York Knicks: We Surrender

 

I suppose. I mean, that would ruin his street cred by snitching out Isiah

 

Put that quote from Isiah n the video screens before each game at MSG... that would be awesome

 

Marc Stein wrote this this morning. ... I'll paraphrase. So Isiah tells Carmelo to stay out of the lane, and that he shouldn't be in the game. Perhaps he's warning him because he can't control his players, or there's no telling what a player might do?

To suspend Thomas for saying whatever he said to Melo would be fucking dumb, and extremely hard to prove he had any malice in saying it. Now, I admit he PROBABLY had malice and was PROBABLY warning him because he had ordered a "hit." But I think you'd be looking at a tough case to prove if you suspend the coach for the actions of the players.

And I don't care how much fanboy spnited hates Isiah.

 

They've got Isiah on tape. You can easily read his lips and he's saying, "I wouldn't go to the hole right now. Wouldn't be a good idea." Presumably he's talking to Carmelo, although you can't tell for sure. I wouldn't fry him for that, though. That sort of stuff gets said all the time. This isn't like John Chaney sending out a thug to take somebody out.

 

Watching (sort of) the teleconference on ESPN was a hoot.

More than half of the questioners on the phone couldn't be heard. And then another guy came on the line and more or less said, "Fuck 'em."

Then when it happened so many times, he called out the woman to make sure their "mics were on." Pretty indignant tone.

Who is that guy?

Oh yeah, Isiah IS a pox on the ass of basketball. (Props to the guy who put it so well.) Please, please, Dolan, jettison this punk already.

 

I think it's amazing that Thomas didn't get a big suspension out of this.

 

I hope every goddamn NBA team runs up the score on Isiah into the fucking stratosphere the rest of the season, and if anybody on the Knicks says or breathes one word about it, send the four biggest dudes on your bench to go straight for the goddamn throat of Isiah Thomas, and stomp the bitch into the floorboards.

 

An outstanding column on Isiah this morning from one of my favorite NBA writers, who also happenes to be a friend:

http://www.nj.com/columns/ledger/dalessandro/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/1166422155129990.xml&coll=1