How to Forget Your Own Troubles
Is there anything more fun in the sports pages these days than reading about that train wreck of a franchise called the New York Knicks? It's just all so good.
The owner, James Dolan, makes such consistently bad decisions that he proves every day that he must have inherited his money. Of course, his dumbest decision was hiring Isiah Thomas, the most incompetent person in America not working in a senior position in the Bush administration.
Dolan's second dumbest decision was giving Thomas the highest payroll in the league to spend, which Thomas has done on such gems as Jalen Rose ($15.6 million and 12.6 points per game); Maurice Taylor ($9.1 million and 6.3 points per game); Quentin Richardson ($6.8 million and 8.1 points per game); and Jerome James (5.0 million and 2.8 points per game). But the best part is that all four of these players are under contract next year at even higher salaries, including James, to whom Thomas last summer gave a five-year $30 million free agent contract. Well, he did average nearly five points and three rebounds a game playing for Seattle last year.
And let's not forget Larry Brown, whose legendary coaching skills will soon help the Knicks shatter the 15-win barrier. He's getting $10 million a year. Which, hard as it might be to believe, is probably not enough to have to work with this outfit.
The owner, James Dolan, makes such consistently bad decisions that he proves every day that he must have inherited his money. Of course, his dumbest decision was hiring Isiah Thomas, the most incompetent person in America not working in a senior position in the Bush administration.
Dolan's second dumbest decision was giving Thomas the highest payroll in the league to spend, which Thomas has done on such gems as Jalen Rose ($15.6 million and 12.6 points per game); Maurice Taylor ($9.1 million and 6.3 points per game); Quentin Richardson ($6.8 million and 8.1 points per game); and Jerome James (5.0 million and 2.8 points per game). But the best part is that all four of these players are under contract next year at even higher salaries, including James, to whom Thomas last summer gave a five-year $30 million free agent contract. Well, he did average nearly five points and three rebounds a game playing for Seattle last year.
And let's not forget Larry Brown, whose legendary coaching skills will soon help the Knicks shatter the 15-win barrier. He's getting $10 million a year. Which, hard as it might be to believe, is probably not enough to have to work with this outfit.
posted by FCB at 9:41 PM
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