Jan.3 at 10:05 am

peteb80 says:
Firesiah.

Jan.3 at 10:10 am

white hot eboy says:
You smile in my face,
When I turn around,
You stick a knife in my back.
You think you’re clever,
You know you’re insane,
You’re lies are not white they are black. You can’t fight, what is right
Face the truth, liar
You can’t feel, you just steal
Face the truth, liar Thanks to Yngwie J. Malmsteen for the idea.

Jan.3 at 10:13 am

d.Y. says:
What a way to start the day. I was at the bulls/knicks game at msg the other day. Sad energy amongst fans there. Everyone is either angry, depressed, or confused. Even David Lee started getting boos by the third. I guess the whole building’s osmosizing Zeke’s Madness (that sounds like an NES game). Worst part might have been the “City Kids” dancers in booty shorts, jiggling to “Supamanned dat…”

Jan.3 at 10:17 am

peteb80 says:
Chris Rock or Dave Chappelle should just take Isiah’s quotes and make a stand-up routine out of them. They wouldn’t have to change a word. I know I would laugh.

Jan.3 at 10:24 am

baker's dozen (12-13) says:
I’m sick of reading about the Knicks…it’s bad enough when they win, but the coverage is worse when they lose.

Jan.3 at 10:26 am

QQ says:
Wow, this is crazier than the thought of Vince Carter playing with some heart. On second thought, nah…

Jan.3 at 10:33 am

Terrigno says:
i believe “one day” the Knicks will eventually win another title too,,, “one day” somewhere around 2030ish…..but come on whats he supposed to say? the real idiot here is the reporter that asked isiah what he thought about newyorks championship hopes,,, a more realistic question would have been::. how do you still have a job?

Jan.3 at 10:40 am

Mayor Adam West says:
I believe one day that we will win a championship here and I believe a COUPLE of these guys will be a part of that,” Thomas said

Jan.3 at 10:41 am

Mayor Adam West says:
he meant nate and wilson chandler. ummm nevermind

Jan.3 at 10:42 am

d.Y. says:
yesh yesh. One day reminds me of the classic Jeru joint, “One day about 6 o’clock i woke up…”

Jan.3 at 10:59 am

Nguni says:
we shouldn’t shoot down a man when he has great dreams!! Only problem is he has blinds for his eyelids and can’t see clearly in his dreams. i couldn’t believe i was watching Isiah say those words last night. One word, Classic!

Jan.3 at 11:00 am

Jared says:
Wilson Chandler got some burn last night, played well for 2 minutes, took Jared Jeffries rotation spot, and probably played his way out of that spot about 2 minutes later…John Salmons was bustin that a,ss last night

Jan.3 at 11:07 am

bobby stew says:
“Then I felt just like a fiend, it wasn’t even close to halloween”- My minds playin tricks on me, by Isiah Thomas

Jan.3 at 11:11 am

TADOne says:
No comment.

Jan.3 at 11:16 am

Slamyomama says:
isiah is an idiot hes not winning a championship any time soon with the team hes got

Jan.3 at 11:17 am

rav says:
this is taking the piss though: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/2008/01/03/2008-01-03_student_arrested_for_fire_isiah_tees.html

Jan.3 at 11:21 am

Keith says:
Isiah so crazy.

Jan.3 at 11:23 am

maio says:
At least he’s not sh*tting on his team like those bogus bandwaggon fans at the MSG.

Jan.3 at 11:25 am

Jeff of InsideHoops says:
Perhaps it depends on the definition of ‘championship’. Perhaps a moral championship. Leading the children. Hugging babies. Providing laughter to the community with ridiculous quotes.

Jan.3 at 11:25 am

Jeff of InsideHoops says:
Perhaps it depends on the definition of ‘championship’. Perhaps a moral championship. Leading the children. Hugging babies. Providing laughter to the community with ridiculous quotes.

Jan.3 at 11:33 am

Art Vandelay says:
Hearing that, can anyone blame Scottie Pippen for wanting to become an NBA-Coach, too?

Jan.3 at 11:36 am

Jukai says:
I give up.

Jan.3 at 11:38 am

BETCATS says:
Dave Zirin wrote a collum about how him and Reggie’s Kings would meet, but that was long ago.

Jan.3 at 11:39 am

Jared says:
Maio, bandwagon fans? You’re supposed to be content with a team that sucks, doesn’t play hard, has douche bags on the roster, has the highest payroll in the L by far, has more than a handful of double digit home losses, and the coach has been reported as saying he doesn’t give a sh!t about the white fans, which is only one of his racist comments, not to mention he lost the Garden over 11 million dollars in a sexual assault case, threw 10’s of millions of dollars to Larry Brown for less than a full year of misery, and oh yeah, is absolutely dillusional! Who pays for the tickets? Who buys the jerseys? Who fills the world’s most famous arena regardless?

Jan.3 at 11:42 am

Jared says:
And he’s not sh!tting on his team? What’s he supposed to do? Tell the public that they suck and are underachieving to absolutely say the least? The Knicks basically lost to a team of benchies last night, and they were handled. They deserve to be sh!tted on, or traded, or exiled.

Jan.3 at 11:48 am

TADOne says:
When John Salmons has a career day against your team, you are NOT going to the finals any time soon.

Jan.3 at 11:51 am

Allenp says:
I believe he said one day, and that it wouldn’t be with the same team they have now. At least that’s how I read the quote. Weird how I got that and some people seem to have gotten something totally different.

Jan.3 at 12:13 pm

TADOne says:
I got that Allenp, but as I said, it won’t be “anytime soon”. Anytime soon=within the next 5 years. And yes, I do understand the team will look totally different.

Jan.3 at 12:13 pm

Captain America says:
Zeke is right. If they get rid of the current team and its coach, there could be a championship in their future.

Jan.3 at 12:31 pm

d.Y. says:
woooooooooooord rav, i bought that shirt from that kid last sunday!

Jan.3 at 1:00 pm

Russ Bengtson says:
I’m done going to Knicks games unless something drastic happens. No one involved with the Knicks seems to be taking these losses particularly hard, but I for one can’t handle it any more. I promise to not write about them anymore, either.

Jan.3 at 1:19 pm

maio says:
Jared, I see your point but love should overcome adversity!
No really, there is just such negative atmosphere in NY from all sides that nothing even remotely favorable can spawn out of it.
That team is full of oversized infants who apparently can’t handle negativity. I’m not saying that they deserve a different approach but maybe it would do wonders.
And you just don’t boo David Lee.

Jan.3 at 1:36 pm

Jared says:
It’s tough though. It’s not like it’s been one year. The franchise has been on the decline for a few years short of a decade now, and there’s no end of that in anywhere near sight. There are no signs of things possibly getting any better, and when you have the ability to love something, you have the ability to hate it too. Obviously atthe end of the day every real knicks fan loves the knicks, we just hate this current team for what it’s doing to something that we’re passionate about. It’s just real hard to root for something that you feel is spitting in your face, and it’s really not the players we’re rooting against, it’s the ownership for allowing this to happen to one of the most storied franchises in sports. And you’re right, David Lee is unbooable.

Jan.3 at 1:45 pm

Russ Bengtson says:
I’m just waiting for Isiah to trade Malik Rose and David Lee to Minnesota for Antoine Walker.

Jan.3 at 2:15 pm

Jared says:
My heart just dropped because I can absolutely see it happening. He’s like a perfect combo of jamal crawford, zach randolph and eddy curry. Overrated handle, always needs the ball, ill-advised shots, can’t board, fat.

Jan.3 at 6:11 pm

Devin says:
Yeah heard about this on Mike and Mike in the morning. I think he just said it to lift his spirits up. Hes the coach of the team so he has to belive it. Its sorta like when you were little and your dad would tell you you can be whatever you want to be when in the back of his mind he can think of a few things you cant do. Isaiah knows this team cant make a championship run anytime soon but he has to think that for the sake of the team.

Jan.3 at 6:20 pm

Sesa says:
the key word is “One Day”. It can be 2020 when Isiah stopped coaching.

Jan.3 at 6:49 pm

FLUXLAND says:
ISIAH FOR PRESIDENT!
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It’s funny how, if this team was 22-8, it would all be about the players NOT the coach. Ala Doc Rivers in Boston. If that team was 3-27, he would be getting the Isiah treatment (assuming he was still employed). Right now, we are allegedly watching 3 HOFs on the way to countless rings and Rivers is lucky to be there. Even one of the assistants is getting more credit then him right now.

Jan.3 at 7:39 pm

Keep Isiah says:
“and I believe a couple of these guys will be a part of that,”?? Sure, they can be ‘part’ of a big trade for some players that are actually good.

Jan.3 at 9:14 pm

Russ Bengtson says:
Wow, where do I even start? Doc Rivers got a TON of credit when he coached the Magic to the playoffs with three CBA players and a bunch of elderly tree sloths. Even won coach of the year, if I remember correctly. Are you seriously saying that the reason Isiah is taking so much heat is RACISM? Because is you are, just come right out and say it. I’ve gone to most of their home games this year, and he’s an awful coach. They run no plays (as opposing scouts have noticed), their defense is horrid, player morale is at an all-time low, they’ve gone down 20 almost every game–what other signs do you need? Does God need to come down from Heaven and write it on stone tablets? Apparently that’s the only thing that might get him fired. Don’t get me wrong, the players are at fault too, but who brought them here? All roads lead back to one man, and that man is Jim Dolan. Who should be institutionalized. But Isiah needs to go, too. Anyone who’s watched more than one Knick game would realize that.

Jan.3 at 9:25 pm

Russ Bengtson says:
To temper that a bit, that’s just how it goes with coaches. The team is great is you win, you’re bad if you lose. That’s how Larry Brown could take the Sixers to the Finals, but get fired by the Knicks. (or how Doc could win Coach of the Year with Orlando and still get fired by the same franchise). Or what about Scott Skiles? Was it his fault his team couldn’t hit shots, that Ben Wallace is playing like the Crypt Keeper, that Ben Gordon is 4-9? Nope. But he was the guy who took the fall. Your scenario of the Knicks being 22-8 and the Celtics being 3-27 is pretty funny though. And let me ask you this: if the Celtics were 3-27 after adding Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett, wouldn’t the coach DESERVE to get fired?

Jan.4 at 12:28 am

Ben Osborne says:
FYI everyone, Doc Rivers did a first-person piece for us in the new issue (Melo/AI cover). Check for it.

Jan.4 at 1:38 am

hursty says:
good stuff russ, if u look at the Knicks on paper they have a reasonable team. When they did the deal for Randolph, people were saying ‘along with the pistons/spurs (paper team), the Knicks might do something’. Ha, bullsh!t!. to the slam guys, does it take longer for the mag to get overseas? it seems like it takes at LEAST until the middle of the month for the issues to get out here. thanks

Jan.4 at 1:00 pm

Harlem_World says:
Those who know me know I love NY. I sign ‘Knicks’ on every applicable space, through thick and thin, ups and downs, Rileys and Isiah’s. Anyone who defends Zeke now, after all this, really invalidates his/her opinion on anything related to basketball. He has to go. I don’t know when I don’t know how, but he has to go. He has lost what little credibility his playing career earned him and only succeeds in wiping his playing achievements from our collective memories the longer he stays around. If anyone related to the Knicks ever gets to read this, please pass on this message to him: Don’t do it for the fans, or the organization, or Dolan, or the players - but Zeke, please, please, please - do it for yourself. Save whatever is left in the bucket and make your way back to cabin creek. While you still can.

Jan.4 at 7:33 pm

FLUXLAND says:
Wow.. how did you possibly get RACISM out of all of that? You are losing it Russ. My point was a simple one, coaches get no credit when they win and all the blame when they are losing while the players can do no wrong unless they kill someone. But hey.. I’ll bite.
First off, obviously, I don’t have any insight as to what kind of coach he is because I am not there. I do however get to see the players play (on occasion), and I don’t see a team that’s giving it 100% (something you were not willing to admit until recently). If anything, I see a bunch guy TRYING to get the coach fired. I don’t really care what he has done to make them act that way, because at the end of the day he doesn’t pay their bills. You and I, as fans, do that. So, to spit on me after I have paid for a ticket, with my hard earned $, by playing like a b****, is beyond infuriating. That’s like me going to BestBuy or any business for that matter, and the sales associate telling me to f off, because he has an issue with his boss. ?? I’m just really sick of players running the L by acting like babies. (hey lets throw a temper tantrum cuz I’m not starting tonite.. WTF?)
LB - how can you bring him up when he feels the same way I do? (see Milicic, Darko and any other player trying to act up around him)
DOC - players coach… who has ever complained about him? I’m assuming the organization decided he took them as far as they can go)
SKILES - you made my point. Not his fault the players are not perfoming. Maybe there should have been a lineup change, or maybe they were doing the same thing the Knick players are - trying to get him canned. I’m sure Ben is still ticked about the headband thing.
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To answer your question: it would depend. Are Ray and Keving acting like Steph and Zach? Then the answer is NO. I’m not against a coach getting fired.. for the right reasons. But to fire him cuz the players are making him look bad.. sorry, I don’t agree. And btw, what was Curry saying after the game the other nite? He got the message? Oh, ok! And what does JO say about the guy? Oh, ok! Yes he brought them there - under the assumption that they were going to give 100%
I don’t expect you to understand. These players pay your bills.. that’s why SLAM has never written a bad word about Steph.

Jan.7 at 4:11 pm

SLAM ONLINE | » Abandoned. says:
[…] Isiah Thomas made us all laugh last week with his championship aspirations, but his statements weren’t completely ridiculous. If he were fired today, despite the lingering reminders of his bad decisions, the Knicks could be on their way to a championship in just a couple of years, if only because of location. They’re still in New York, the country’s biggest market and the games’ Mecca, a serious enticement for a superstar such as Kobe or LeBron. Knowing that they’re one of the leagues premier teams is a reason for the woeful outcries of the Knicks faithful, but also a source of encouragement for their future. They can’t stay this bad forever. Right? […]

Jan.15 at 2:50 am

Seth says:
Don’t forget “have your season ticket holders ejected for holding up a sign.”