Thursday, February 23, 2006

Zeke or LB?

With NY Knicks GM Isaiah Thomas' most recent trade, bringing Stevie "Franchise" Francis in at the cost of losing cheap labor and an expiring contract bargaining chip, the questions I have are these:

  1. Who will leave the Knicks organization first- Zeke or Larry Brown?
  2. With Zeke flaming out of this job in spectacular fashion, at what point do the people who make Decisions say, Zeke's resume consists of the following:
    1. He lmost single-handedly bankrupted the CBA. (CBA is now flourishing again since he's left)
    2. He practically stole the Indiana head coaching job from Rick Carlisle, took a team that had come within two wins of a championship, and made it a borderline 8th seed for two years before he was fired.
    3. He hoodwinked the Knicks organization into giving him free reign after the Knicks experienced the Scott Layden debacle. Sort of like breaking up with a girl that has a few too many personality quirks and then immediately hooking up with a hot chick at a bar who immediately moves in with you, and only then do you find out that she's Defcon-5 level crazy.
    4. He has leveraged his team into a group of guys that consist of no less than 7 (seven!) shooting guards, most of whom need high volume to produce points.
    5. He has placed two out of the three most "me-first" shooting guards in the league in the same backcourt together. (I'm sure you can guess who the third is)
    6. He traded for a big guy whose downside is that he could potentially die on the court.
    7. He traded for another big guy who has parlayed two months of hard work into a $30mm contract, and is now quite content to stop working again.
    8. He was just slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit.
    9. He's a tempermental prima donna who refuses to accept criticism or responsibility.
    10. Oh, and everybody who has worked for him hates him. Super guy.
  3. All this said, wouldn't it be a perverse pleasure to see LB put on the court, all at once, Starbury, Stevie Franchise, Nate "Take 14" Robinson, Jalen Rose, and Jerome "People Love Me" James???
So given the quagmire (gigidy gigidy goo!), who leaves first? Zeke or LB?

Fearless (or maybe fearful) prediction: with this kind of track record, is Zeke violently careening toward an OJ-level meltdown? Let's just say that if this sexual harassment lawsuit doesn't go his way, and I find myself watching TV one night and the network suddenly switches over to a police car chase where Bill Laimbeer is slowly driving a white Bronco down the Detroit freeway, I'll be shaking my head knowingly.

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