PeterNorth09 Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 There's a report now that the Knicks will neither confirm nor deny that they're buying out Larry Brown's contract and the new Knicks coach, guess who, none other than Mr. Dumbass himself Isiah Thomas: http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/5604160 I agree with buying out Brown's contract, the guy simply can not coach younger players, but to replace him with Isiah Thomas as the ****ing coach? Where is Stan Van Gundy when you need him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Brown will hold them to every last dollar, so this isn't going to be cheap.And he's also going to talk a bit. This is going to be embarrassing. Brown has a track record of success. Thomas, as an executive/coach/GM is a joke. How can they hoep to sell this? Isiah Thomas was pitiful as a coach with the Pacers.Catering to a complete idiot like Marbury wll get them nowhere.This is insane. Is there heroin in the MSG coffee machine? Zeke must hae pictures of Baby Boy Dolan with a farm animal or watching DirecTv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmike1 Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 This is 100% dolan. If Isiah after the LAUGHABLE job he's done still has his job and we're being told that Dolan wants him to be a coach what does that tell you about the way dolan is running this team. The guy is clearly inpet and has turned the knicks into the biggest joke in pro sports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsMan57 Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 This pretty much has to happen. The players hate brown, and Thomas cant get rid of all the scrubs in one offseason. No way will these guys go ahrd for Brown. It will be another 20 win embarrassment next year. This is pretty sad. The Knicks get one of the greatest coaches in history and screw that up too. Another frightening note is that Thomas thinks the team he assembled is pretty good lol. Everybody on the roster plays defense like a swinging door, but Thomas thinks this is a good team. If it werent so scary it'd be down right hysterical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/story/417615p-352779c.html Knicks buying out Larry? Dolan may be mulling move BY FRANK ISOLA DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Larry Brown Garden chairman James Dolan apparently has started the process of ending Larry Brown's dream job after one season. According to sources, Dolan, upset over Brown's record and the coach's public criticism of his players, is considering buying out the final four years of Brown's contract, worth at least $40 million. The Knicks declined to comment, and would neither confirm nor deny one published report that already is naming Knicks president Isiah Thomas as Brown's successor. Brown has indicated that he will not resign, but if Thomas takes over, the Knicks would avoid having to pay another coach upwards of $5 million annually. Thomas, who coached the Pacers from 2000-2003 but never got them out of the first round of the playoffs, is said to be amenable to coaching the Knicks, one source told the Daily News. Knicks brass has not met with Brown since the end of the 23-59 season, according to sources, perhaps another indication of Dolan's dissatisfaction with the Hall of Fame coach. According to a team official, Brown has requested a meeting with Dolan but Thomas has told Brown there is no reason for him to meet with the club's owner(they owe Brown $40 million; neither MSG team is still playing, and Baby Boy Dolan cannot find an afternoon to meet with a guy who could cost him some serious money for the next 4 seasons?). Last month, The News reported that a majority of the players blamed the Knicks' worst season in 20 years on Brown, whose hiring last July was looked upon as a way to return the struggling franchise to prominence(heaven forbid they stop and look in the miror). Brown, one of the most successful coaches in basketball history, ended the season with 1,010 NBA victories (he is fourth on the all-time list) but was never happy with the roster that the embattled Thomas had assembled. The Knicks played and acted like the league's most undisciplined team, which reflected poorly on the players and Brown. The coach talked often about a wish list of players more suited to his team-first, defense-oriented style, but sources say Brown has been told the team cannot be changed significantly(Marbury stays!). After joining the Knicks following a messy divorce from the Pistons, Brown quickly reignited his feud with point guard Stephon Marbury, which began during the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Within a few months, Brown had publicly criticized several players, which was an indictment of Thomas, who put together the league's most expensive roster at $125 million. According to sources, Thomas also was upset that Brown chose to publicly air his complaints about the Knicks' flawed roster. A turning point came in late February, when Dolan and Thomas joined the Knicks for a three-day road trip to San Antonio and Memphis. The News reported that during that trip, Dolan told Brown to focus on coaching the players. The following day, Dolan gave Thomas a strong endorsement, while giving Brown a lukewarm review(Yes, Baby Boy Dolan knows so much about basketball, that he immdediately recgnozed Brown was a mistake!). It was during that trip that Brown entered a Memphis hospital after complaining of chest pains. Six weeks later, Brown took ill and left a game in Cleveland in the third quarter, and was later taken on a stretcher to a hospital, complaining of an acid reflux problem. He missed the next three games, but returned for the finale against the Nets at Meadowlands Arena, where he let assistant Herb Williams run the team. During his farewell address to the media after the season, Brown shocked Garden brass by saying he had been suffering from the flu and that Thomas and team doctors had advised him not to coach that game. According to two player agents with clients on the Knicks, the players staged a palace coup in front of Thomas during their exit interviews. Players never blame themselves, and they weren't about to cast aspersions on Thomas, the man responsible for bringing them to New York. Instead, approximately eight of the Knicks' 15 players blamed Brown for arguably the worst season in franchise history. The most common complaints were Brown's failure to define roles and his penchant for publicly criticizing his players. "The Knicks are going to have to make changes because there is no way Larry can walk into the locker room with this same group," one source said then. "He lost a lot of those guys and he's not going to win them back." Brown could not have been surprised by the feedback Thomas was getting. Two weeks earlier, Brown admitted that several Knicks had long since tuned him out, and said that the season had been reduced to "begging guys to play." After the exit interviews, Thomas said: "We do have a group that, for everything that I've heard today, like each other, want to stay together and want to play together, and believe that they can get it done." Originally published on May 14, 2006 This is the classic case of allowing the inmates to run the asylum-no defense, players bitching about playing time and shots daily, whiny crap tolerated and basically encouraged by this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsMan57 Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Dolan has this all a$$-backwards. if I were him id send Isiah on his way, make Brown, who clearly doesnt have the health to coach anymore, the GM/President and make him rebuild this mess. Brown will send these guys to Siberia if it meant getting them off the team. He can bring in one of his guys to coach the squad, and get the players he likes that plays the game the right way. But Dolan wants to axe Brown and keep Isiah. Brilliant.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouda147 Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 please excuse me as i cry. So lemme get this right, Isiah with all of his years (sarcasm) will do better than Larry (i'm movin soon) Brown? Ugh, in the largest media capital of thge world, we cannot get a competitive team. such a shame! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterNorth09 Posted May 14, 2006 Author Share Posted May 14, 2006 I think the right move here would be to buy out BOTH Larry Brown and Stephon Marbury. I really think the Knicks could be half-way decent if they got rid of those two. Brown cannot help the younger players like Nate, Frye and David Lee and refuses to give them enough playing time. Marbury just isn't working out. Get rid of Brown, Marbury and Isiah. Bring in Stan Van Gundy and watch this team improve dramatically. This team does have a lot of young talent but no leadership. Next year's starting lineup should be: PG: Nate Robinson SG: Steve Francis or Jamal Crawford SF: Qyntel Woods PF: David Lee C: Channing Frye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 with every day I lose more interest in the NBA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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