How does this affect you, Jimmy? If you replace Isiah Thomas with a more competent leader (say, any collection of three items on your desk lashed together with rubber bands and given an impromptu name like 'Squishy'), the Knicks could weasel their way into the NBA playoffs and blow their chance at one of those top draft picks.
Worse for the rest of us, though, the Boston Celtics could continue their tear through the Eastern Conference, setting up a first round matchup between... Boston and New York. It would go seven games. It would never end. It would be the worst Night Gallery episode ever.
So think of us, Jimmy boy, and keep Isiah right where he belongs: at your side, pointing at the iceberg you two have just bounced the Knicks' ship off for the seventh time. Keep shouting, "Full speed ahead; we'll get through this time!" Please do this for us, Jimmy, because we can't get through another trip down Boston and New York Avenues. Give us just a few months off.
Desperately,
America
Article comments
1 - Matthew T. Sussman
At the end of the season, like Homer Simpson in the courtroom after Skinner gets shot, Dolan needs to stand up and say: "This has gone on just long enough!"
2 - Tuffy
Notice how I chose Night Gallery instead of Twilight Zone or Outer Limits? I wanted it to be the worst of the worst. Jus' sayin'.
3 - The Haze
I like to fondly refer to them as the "Diazinon Knicks". It tends to infuriate my fellow New Yorkers(which makes me chuckle). BTW - They've sucked way before the prophet Isiah showed up. He just hitched a ride on the "Dumbass(Dolan) Express" and offered to help drag it under! Take note people on how to tear a franchise apart. It just doesn't happen over night!