NEW YORK –It was early during the 2006-07 season, and the New York Knicks were an absolute horror.  Larry Brown, after all of one year, was eradicated, and Isiah Thomas, the team’s general manager, was given the added responsibility of head coach.
Don’t drop the ball, James Dolan warned.
Thomas, the Hall-of-Fame guard who -once upon a [...]

More than twenty years ago, John Feinstein wrote A Season on the Brink, which told the saga of Bob Knight, the legendary basketball coach at Indiana University.
In Open Court: A Year With the New York Knicks, John J. Buro recounts one particular forgettable season in the life of Isiah Thomas -Knight’s point guard on the [...]

NEW YORK – As absurd as it would have sounded just a few weeks ago, it now makes total sense.
The Knicks were better off last season.
It was easy to be a Knick in 2008-09. No one expected any major improvements and when something went wrong, there was always the newly departed Isiah Thomas to blame. [...]

The talk all around the National Basketball Association as the current season begins has been the plethora of teams who are merely looking to go through the motions in anticipation of the free agent class coming up in the summer. It is almost as if this – and in some cases – last season were [...]

New York – We knew going into this 2009-10 season that the Knicks were sacrificing this season by trading away most of their long-term contracts to clear salary-cap space in preparation for the class of 2010 free-agent sweepstakes. We knew such NBA superstuds with expiring contracts like LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Joe Johnson, [...]

Have I missed something? When did James L. Dolan purchase the Mets?
Ok, the MSG Boss hasn’t reached out into Queens, but with the way the Mets are acting these days with their front office, you might think Isiah Thomas is running the team.
Sure, Thomas is safely away from New York starting his gig as coach [...]

Of course the ultimate goal for a team is to make the playoffs, regardless of what sport you’re in and even if the team is going through a rebuilding year. For the New York Knicks, getting into the postseason in Year One of the new regime would be a feather in the caps of team [...]

One by one, all the busts that former head honcho Isiah Thomas brought to Broadway are being sent packing. The latest to go is perhaps the most villainous and the face of the franchise’s recent failures, and no one was shedding a tear when Stephon Marbury was finally given the heave-ho.
The most ironic part of [...]

For those of you out there who are concerned about the political future/leadership of our nation–and its overall welfare in general–please be advised that we ALL can take solace in at least one thing: Isiah Thomas has yet to enter the field of politics……….The “Who Am I” TRIVIA QUESTION: After playing college ball at Jackson [...]

Too much have been made of these last four losses. And ok, outside of the 1-0 loss in Boston – always a tough assignment – they were bad.
But to ask for Tom Renney’s head for this outrage is ridiculous.
In his fourth full season as Rangers head coach, Renney brought back the pride of the Rangers [...]