Well, this is awkward.
by Seth on Apr 22, 2008 9:31 AM EDT
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PrintWe all knew Isiah Thomas was getting "reassigned" off the sideline and into some other wing of Knicks' staff...but we didn't know how serious they were about that. From ESPN:
Former New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas has been banned from having any contact with members of the team as part of his reassignment agreement with team president Donnie Walsh, the New York Daily News reported, citing a team source.
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According to the report, there is concern that Thomas, if allowed to have any contact with the team, could either willingly or unwillingly undermine its new coach. Thomas acquired all the players on the current Knicks roster as team president.
First of all, this may prove to be a false report. That aside, I don't want to question Walsh this early on, but if you have so little trust for the guy, then why keep him around in any respect? If this is report true, it seems to me like a Dolan-engineered move. Perhaps Big Jim doesn't want to pay Isiah to leave, nor does he feel Isiah has what it takes to stick around. That creates a bit of a conundrum, as we're seeing here. Any thoughts on this? Is this is a smart move and I'm missing the point? What's the motivation?
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awkward indeed
i’m just afraid hell still be available for interviews and conferences and shit…
i have no idea what the purpose of dolan and walshes move is…hopefully it’s to use his scouting eye to help with the draft lol
waaaay 2 serious about the yanks and knicks? maybe... oh well
by Prezs2ReprsntMe on Apr 22, 2008 10:49 AM EDT reply actions
That "scouting eye" might not be as strong
with this new news. What motivation will Isiah have if he can’t even talk to any of the guys anymore? If Walsh was going to do this, then he should’ve just fired the guy in the first place.
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Perhaps.....
This is all part of a ploy to have Thomas be willing to negotiate a buyout or reduction of the money owed to him. Maybe if you keep pushing him farther and farther into the corner, he might end up wanting to leave, and then be willing to negotiate. If they just fired him then they would owe him all that money. However, if you belittle him, keep him around but make his significance less and less, his natural pride might come to the fore.
How about that, huh?
"We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement." Friedrich Nietzsche, "All Too Human" (1878)
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