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Make Your Predictions: What's Next for Isiah?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Lugnuts, Oct 2, 2007.

  1. Sxysprtswrtr

    Sxysprtswrtr Active Member

    Look man, just buy Ms. Sanders a $4 mil ring and all will be forgotten. I promise.

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  2. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    They could pay me to go away any old time. :D :D


    What the fuck is it with juries, that no person can ever be held individually accountable for his own acts? O.J. Simpson, Robert Blake and Phil Spector slaughter people and walk free; Isiah Thomas, a multi-multi-millionaire, collecting millions on false pretenses for years, commits despicable sexual harassment and isn't penalized a dime.
     
  3. Elliotte Friedman

    Elliotte Friedman Moderator Staff Member

    Oh, Starman: this is worse.

    Isiah looked worried walking out of that courtroom because he knows Dolan has to pay for his mistakes. He'd rather pay Sanders off himself, because this makes him toxic. No one will hire the guy knowing he cost a previous employer $12 million in damages. It would be possible if he was a proven winner. But he's not.

    Now, he's officially unhireable. He's finished, and he knows it.
     
  4. Oz

    Oz Well-Known Member

    He should have been deemed expendable years ago.
     
  5. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Well, any prospective employer already knew he has cost the Knicks literally hundreds of millions of dollars in wasted salaries (players and coaches), so I'm not sure another $12 million out the window should make him any more unhirable. That's about what he paid Jalen Rose a year or so ago, wasn't it?? :D :D
     
  6. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Thomas has to pay actual damages including pain and suffereing, but not punitive damages. MSG has to do that.
     
  7. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    When does the second chance telethon begin? He's paid his debt, it's in the past, lets move on[/Michael Vick]
     
  8. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Too bad MSG couldn't give the plaintiff Jalen Rose then.
     
  9. Lugnuts

    Lugnuts Well-Known Member

    Well, MSG has come out all defiant and full of bravado. They say they'll appeal, yada, yada, yada. And Thomas WON'T be fired.

    What's interesting is that she also asked for her job back.

    Anybody know how that works?
     
  10. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    With Ike's career pattern he'll probably get promoted to an even better job. I've never known a person who kept failing and kept winding up in better positions. Frankly, Dolan should make him do double duty and coach the Liberty as well.
    The whole situation doesn't surprise me after reading the piece on Dolan in SI about a year ago. MSG didn't appear to be a very professionally run business. Stuff like this doesn't happen by accident and its never a situation of one person v. one person, its bad management pure and simple.
     
  11. Lugnuts

    Lugnuts Well-Known Member

    Is there any way Jim Dolan could get "fired" by his dad? Or does Jimmy hold the keys to the empire now?

    Let's say the Knicks and the Garden start bleeding money because nobody wants to go to their games. It still doesn't make much difference because they have the cable empire, which is engorged with money.

    Can the EEOC get involved? Stern? Is a company allowed to act like pigs and just keep doing it?
     
  12. jakewriter82

    jakewriter82 Active Member

    Adrian Wojnarowski has a bang-up column on the topic...http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AhLzowh4uJY.czsbEGniWgs5nYcB?slug=aw-isiah100207&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
    Isaiah Thomas has killed everything he's ever touched since he quit playing years ago. Now, apparently, he's a sexual deviant on top of that. What a guy!
     
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