Comments on: Isiah Thomas: Codename “Persona Non Grata” http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/isiah-thomas-codename-persona-non-grata/ People don't think it be like it is, but it do. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:20:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Tank http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/isiah-thomas-codename-persona-non-grata/#comment-1248 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:04:13 +0000 http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/isiah-thomas-codename-persona-non-grata/#comment-1248 I would have been willing to destroy the Knicks for less than half of Isiah's salary. I would have been willing to destroy the Knicks for less than half of Isiah’s salary.

]]> by: Cliffy http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/isiah-thomas-codename-persona-non-grata/#comment-1241 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:46:32 +0000 http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/isiah-thomas-codename-persona-non-grata/#comment-1241 No kidding, eh? So let me get this straight: I'm brought in to run the operations, and I run it into the ground - and then I get a golden parachute for my efforts? Any one of us can do that! Where do we sign up?! No kidding, eh? So let me get this straight: I’m brought in to run the operations, and I run it into the ground - and then I get a golden parachute for my efforts? Any one of us can do that! Where do we sign up?!

]]> by: shtiny http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/isiah-thomas-codename-persona-non-grata/#comment-1232 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:12:23 +0000 http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/isiah-thomas-codename-persona-non-grata/#comment-1232 Doesn't that sound like a dream job for many DKEs? I get paid a lot of money, without any responsibility....Hmmm... hang on, going to check Monster.com Doesn’t that sound like a dream job for many DKEs? I get paid a lot of money, without any responsibility….Hmmm… hang on, going to check Monster.com

]]> by: Cliffy http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/isiah-thomas-codename-persona-non-grata/#comment-1224 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:38:18 +0000 http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/isiah-thomas-codename-persona-non-grata/#comment-1224 Not so fast, my friend. With Walsh's new "job description" for Isiah, they do indeed have plenty of reason to hope. He can't mess it up anymore. Just for starters, they enjoy (substantial) addition by subtraction in their efforts to become an NBA franchise again. Hmmm... just occurred to me: Maybe Isiah thought that he was still CBA commissioner so that's why he assembled (and coached) a CBA-cablier team? Nah, who am I kidding? The Knicks wouldn't have been able to compete with the likes of the Albany Patroons in the old CBA... my bad. Donnie Walsh is a very good basketball man... a surprisingly solid decision by James Dolan to bring him on. Dolan is clearly willing to spend money - so if Walsh can actually get him to spend it on *good* players, it won't take long for the Knicks to get back in the swing of things. Put it this way: The Atlanta Hawks and their 37 wins (.451 win %) made the playoffs this season. The Knicks actually aren't *that* far away... in the Eastern Conference. Nope - the CBA were granted no pardon as they sat on death row, and indeed the legal injection was ultimately delivered. Governor Dolan has granted the Knicks a pardon... they have been spared - and they will actually have the opportunity to redeem themselves. Big difference. Not so fast, my friend. With Walsh’s new “job description” for Isiah, they do indeed have plenty of reason to hope. He can’t mess it up anymore. Just for starters, they enjoy (substantial) addition by subtraction in their efforts to become an NBA franchise again.

Hmmm… just occurred to me: Maybe Isiah thought that he was still CBA commissioner so that’s why he assembled (and coached) a CBA-cablier team? Nah, who am I kidding? The Knicks wouldn’t have been able to compete with the likes of the Albany Patroons in the old CBA… my bad.

Donnie Walsh is a very good basketball man… a surprisingly solid decision by James Dolan to bring him on. Dolan is clearly willing to spend money - so if Walsh can actually get him to spend it on *good* players, it won’t take long for the Knicks to get back in the swing of things.

Put it this way: The Atlanta Hawks and their 37 wins (.451 win %) made the playoffs this season. The Knicks actually aren’t *that* far away… in the Eastern Conference.

Nope - the CBA were granted no pardon as they sat on death row, and indeed the legal injection was ultimately delivered. Governor Dolan has granted the Knicks a pardon… they have been spared - and they will actually have the opportunity to redeem themselves. Big difference.

]]> by: Tank http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/isiah-thomas-codename-persona-non-grata/#comment-1223 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:34:08 +0000 http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/isiah-thomas-codename-persona-non-grata/#comment-1223 You really think the Knicks are better off than the CBA? The CBA has been put out of its misery. It no longer suffers. Yet the Knicks must still walk the Earth, bearing the deformities inflicted upon them by Isiah, yet bereft of hope for a better future. You really think the Knicks are better off than the CBA? The CBA has been put out of its misery. It no longer suffers. Yet the Knicks must still walk the Earth, bearing the deformities inflicted upon them by Isiah, yet bereft of hope for a better future.

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