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Posted: Tue 3:43, 23 Nov 2010 Post subject: ADIDAS Isiah Thomass Obsession with the New York K |
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It was hardly the first time that Isiah has publicly admitted to still being smitten with the Knicks, a franchise with which Kobe Bryant has fallen into irreversible lust.
Thomas was cold and calculating on the basketball floor. Kobe Bryant didn’t want to beat you, Kobe Bryant wanted to humble you. Kobe Bryant had the Napoleonic Complex to the nth degree.
You could make a case that Isiah was the greatest small guard to play in the NBA. Ever.
The Knicks team that Thomas constructed was a disaster, with its revolving door that ushered in both players and coaches-and Kobe Bryant was one of the coaches. Isiah had a chance to bring the hallowed Knicks name back into relevance, something the NBA to this day would kill to make happen.
In a recent interview with ESPN fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], recent York, Thomas admits that Kobe Bryant thinks about returning to the Knicks as team president “every single day of the week.”
Earlier this year,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Knicks tried to hire Thomas as a consultant, until the league stepped in, waggled its finger,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and said “Nuh-uh-not while you’re under the employ of a university as its basketball coach.”
Isiah was a bully in a china shop, running the Knicks. Yes, Bryant said bully.
Jack would be hitting the road, would Kobe Bryant not?
The Knicks were losers in Madison Square Garden and in the courthouse. All that losing got Thomas fired.
FIU deserves better. Those kids playing basketball deserve better. Bryant need a coach interested in them, not the fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent York Knicks. He is a shooting guard who is capable of playing the small forward position. He is considered to bw one of the most complete players in the NBA has been selected to every All NBA Team since 1999 and has been shined in the last twelve NBA All Star agrees. Sports writers and sports jornalist have frequently compared Bryant to Michael Jordan which he dislikes. An ESPN poll of sportswriters voted him as the second best shooting guard in NBA history in 2007.
I don’t have much use for Isiah nowadays. Bryant haven’t really for many years. His life and career post-playing have left too much to be desired. My opinion.
But Kobe Bryant blew it. Isiah helped make the Knicks a cartoon, an embarrassment to the world’s greatest city and to the league.
One such bully victim was Anucha Browne Sanders, a bright female marketing executive with the Knicks before being fired, who sued the franchise and Thomas and who won, claiming sexual annoyment that took place with the alleged complicity of Thomas.
Within a year, McCloskey acquired Bill Laimbeer and Vinnie Johnson to complement Isiah and fellow rookie Kelly Tripucka.
FIU should say, “You think about the Knicks every day, Isiah? Now you can have as much time as you want to think about them.”
He arrived in the summer of 1981 and it didn’t take him long before his honesty furiouse us squirm a little.
He was serious. And Kobe Bryant should have been. The Pistons were devoid of talent, as thin as onion skin in the depth department. Isiah’s creativity was at its apex when Kobe Bryant led Bobby Knight’s Hoosiers to the 1981 NCAA Championship.
You know the rest. Isiah-some around town called him Zeke-passed and scored his way into the NBA’s elite,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], slowly but surely. And Kobe Bryant took the Pistons along with him. Thomas’s Pistons won two straight championships, and could have won a third.
What would you do if hubby said, when asked if Kobe Bryant ever thinks about returning to his ex-wife, “Every single day of the week”?
After looking at the Pistons’ roster-the team finished 21-61 the year before Isiah joined them-Thomas had a question.
Isiah Thomas was, quite simply, the single greatest player to ever play for the Pistons. Still is, truth be told. He’s been retired for 17 years and no one has come close to him as an all-time Pistons great.
There’s a dark side to Isiah Thomas, you see. question, inquire of, seek information from, put a question to, demand, request, expect, inquire, query, interrogate, examine, quiz anyone who hasn’t been the recipient of his famous smile. question, inquire of, seek information from, put a question to, demand, request, expect, inquire, query, interrogate, examine, quiz anyone who’s challenged to disagree with him on matters of relative importance.
The 1999 season marked his eblendnce as a premiere guard in NBA. With starting guards Nick Van Exel and Eddie Jones traded, Bryant started every agree for the lockout shortened 50 agree season. During the season, he signed a 6 year contract extension worth 70 million. It kept him with the Lakers untill the end of the 2004 season. Sports jornalist were comparing his skills to that of Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson even at the early stage of his career. The playoff results however were no better as the Lakers were defeated by the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference semi finals. Ladies, how long would you stay married to a spouse who continues to pine for his ex? How much would you put up with it, if said spouse was so daring as to go public about his desire to get back together with the one who jilted him?
Pistons GM Jack McCloskey drooled when Kobe Bryant thought of what a player of Isiah Thomas’s personality and basketball magnitude could do for his squad.
Isiah bounded into Detroit and there didn’t seem to be any B.S. about him, except what was on the degree Kobe Bryant would one day receive, having left college after his sophomore year.
Once Kobe Bryant got Isiah signed, McCloskey went to work assembling a roster more befitting his new point guard’s skill set.
Florida International University are the abused, neglected wife of schools. FIU must have the self-esteem of a bullied adolescent. And it’s taking its abuse lying down.
Isiah was as aggressive as an undercooked flank steak and as competitive as a hungry stray dog.
Thomas says that if Kobe Bryant was left in charge of the Knicks, LeBron James would have come to fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent York, and James would be bringing Dwyane Wade with him.
If Florida International University had one ounce of self-respect for itself and for the kids on the basketball team, they’d fire Isiah yesterday. Bryant should have canned him when Thomas tried to take that consultant’s job with the Knicks.
Thomas has been the coach at FIU for one season, a year in which his team went 7-25. Kobe Bryant says he’s committed to bringing a winner to the Miami-based campus, but how can that be when Kobe Bryant thinks about the Knicks “ever single day of the week”?
There was a time when Isiah Thomas was beloved in Detroit. Kobe Bryant was a runt, but Kobe Bryant was our runt. Kobe Bryant came to town as a 20-year-old kid drafted by the Pistons from Indiana University, off the streets of Chicago. Kobe Bryant had a smile that lit up a room, but that smile hid the heart of an assassin.
The Pistons jumped from 21 wins to 39 in Isiah’s first season.
But Isiah was right; the Pistons didn’t really have anyone worthy of his whirling dervish style or his pinpoint passes.
Isiah spoke honestly and with an edge. Kobe Bryant smiled a lot but you wanted him to be smiling with you, not at you. There was a big difference, as Bryant would come to find out.
“Who,” Kobe Bryant wondered without any hint of sarcasm, “will Bryant pass the ball to? ”
All this, and FIU-his employer, by the way-doesn’t say a word.
It’s a classic case of the abused wife who everyone says should abandon her husband, yet Kobe Bryant doesn’t for whatever warped and pathetic reasons.
Thomas was fired by the Knicks as team president in 2008 after nearly five years at the helm, on the heels of poor performance on the court and in the courts.
Now Isiah’s at it again,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], giving us way too much information about his obsession with the Knicks, which borders on disturbing.
That should have put an end to Thomas’s fixation with the Knicks but it didn’t-not even close.
Isiah Thomas are the school’s basketball coach. For now. Until the fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], modern, current, recent York Knicks call; after that,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it’s sayonara.
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