Brehs, I had no idea Isaiah Thomas was THIS bad with the Knicks.

[NYC Rebel]

fukk I hate these channels like the one you just posted. It's bunch of clueless douchebags reading some articles and making a video out of it for views. This the same shyt like them "top 5 ghosts caught on camera" bullshyt ass videos

this dumb cac says zeke may have ruined the team, but he inherited the already fukked up team that paid money to mcdyess and alan houston, same team that drafted bums like michael sweetney

Zeke did make some bad trades and overpaid for guys but he had a good eye for talent, his drafting skills were good the way he found players like david lee, channing frye, nate robinson who actually had pretty long careers and he even did some good trades like getting zach randolph, yeah he didnt work out well in NY but we saw what happened later in memphis.

its all james dolan fault, in his two decades of running this franchise only couple of years looked productive, the rest were garbage, when its going for THAT long, the ownership gets to be blamed for it.

I laughed loud as hell at that.

 

[Damnshow]

I mean for fukk sakes layden traded ewing to fukking sonics

You want to kill someone for ruining the knicks that's the guy they should talk about, but we know why they won't

 

[Regular_P]

He was trahsed BEFORE the sexual harassment suit and was NEVER offered any goodwill since his Bird comments. White folks circled around that dude from that point going forward

I'm sure Jordan hating him also played into it.

 

[Regular_P]

Zeke has left a trail of destruction in numerous spots, it wasn't just the Knicks.

The Raptors were garbage while he was GM, then as soon as he left they got good.

He bought the CBA and it folded within two years:

Then, Isiah Thomas bought the CBA for $10 million dollars in 1999 and things went immediately downhill. Roughly two weeks after becoming owner, he cut player salaries by roughly a third in an effort to purportedly make the “CBA a younger league” which would appeal more to the NBA as its feeder system.

The players hate “Zeke”.

The following March, six months after his purchase, the NBA offers “Zeke” $11 million dollars and a percentage of profits to buy the CBA and take over the league. Thomas says no, initially.

Three months later, Thomas is offered the head coaching position for the Indiana Pacers. But there is a catch- NBA rules forbid a coach from owning his own league and coaching since that would give him an unfair advantage in terms of player acquisition. So, Thomas signs a letter of intent to sell the CBA to the NBA Players Union.

The owners hate “Zeke”.

Amazingly, the NBA announces a month later that, after 20 years, it does not plan on retaining the CBA as its official minor league after the 2001 season because it will start its own minor league, the NBADL. Almost immediately due to no NBA affiliation, the league becomes nearly worthless and impossible to sell.

The owners really hate “Zeke”.

But Thomas doesn’t care. In October, he signs the league into a “Blind Trust”, essentially crippling the CBA because it can’t pay for anything because no one has any way of seeing the books or knowing about the financial status of the league, and accepts the Pacers head coaching job. Three months later the CBA folds and declares bankruptcy.

In less than a year and a half, Isiah Thomas killed a professional basketball league that had been around since 1946 and blew roughly $10 million dollars in the process. How the Knicks could ever hire him as VP of Basketball Operations after this is beyond explanation.

Pacers went to the Finals in 2000. Zeke took over the next season and they got bounced in the first round three straight years. Carlisle took over and they immediately won 61 games and went to the conference finals.

I like him on NBA TV, but he should never be part of any decision making with an NBA franchise again.

 

[DPresidential]

Current Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant whipped the voracious New York media into a frenzy earlier in the week when he stated that he would make a recruiting visit to New York if the Knicks extend an invitation when the free-agency courting period begins in three weeks. All it would take is a call from GM Isiah Thomas. "I'm going to listen to all options. If he invites me, I'll be there," said Bryant.

Kobe To The Knicks?

He should have done everything he could do have had that sit down w/ Kobe...

 

[Silkk]

Knicks been trash a LOOOONG ass time tho

 

[Bigblackted4]

dont let these cacs fool you
alot of them moves were good/solid - unfortunately didnt work out

Really you defending Isiah Thomas no wonder why

 

[SAJ!!]

I mean for fukk sakes layden traded ewing to fukking sonics

You want to kill someone for ruining the knicks that's the guy they should talk about, but we know why they won't

Layden should have been beaten into a coma for that move alone.

Along with trading Spree.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

Obligatory @Basaglia tag

 

[Colin X]

Zeke has left a trail of destruction in numerous spots, it wasn't just the Knicks.

The Raptors were garbage while he was GM, then as soon as he left they got good.

He bought the CBA and it folded within two years:



Pacers went to the Finals in 2000. Zeke took over the next season and they got bounced in the first round three straight years. Carlisle took over and they immediately won 61 games and went to the conference finals.

I like him on NBA TV, but he should never be part of any decision making with an NBA franchise again.

Folks in this thread acting like Zeke was some kind of genius who never got time to shine

 

[Reggie]

So what is the Knicks excuse before Zeke and afterwards?

 

[Bobby Lashleys eyebrows]

Yup, being a new Yorker. I hated my own damn team because of him and became a suns fan. I never ever liked him especially on Detroit.

 

[DoubleClutch]

Are you sure it wasn’t just the Knicks curse. NOBODY seems to have had success there for decades

Except Jeremy Lin

 

[eastside313]

Dumars was worse IMO.

Fukk outta here

 

[eastside313]

Isiah Thomas ranked best draft GM