Why would you involve your own kids? Thats like a sympathetic marketing campaign. He's crying etc.. I dont think thats the right course of action. I would NEVER involve my kids, why would you????


Its none of my business what went on, but for goodness sakes if I didnt do something that I was accused of I would NOT cry, and I would offer to take a polygraph test right now and offer the lady to do the same. Doesn't that makes sense?

Isiah go tell the lady to take a polygraph--someone has to be BSing--if both people take 1--then everyone will know and this sht can be put to bed. I really do not think its in anyones best interest to let this linger.

if your going to offer an opinion please post something so we know what you're talking about. thanks

Posted by Pharzeone:

Posted by BRIGGS:

Why would you involve your own kids? Thats like a sympathetic marketing campaign. He's crying etc.. I dont think thats the right course of action. I would NEVER involve my kids, why would you????


Its none of my business what went on, but for goodness sakes if I didnt do something that I was accused of I would NOT cry, and I would offer to take a polygraph test right now and offer the lady to do the same. Doesn't that makes sense?

Isiah go tell the lady to take a polygraph--someone has to be BSing--if both people take 1--then everyone will know and this sht can be put to bed. I really do not think its in anyones best interest to let this linger.

Briggs, no disrespect but you don't have a clue what you are talking about. You never know how you react to something until it happens to you. It's like me saying that I wouldn't cry if one of parents die, or I wouldn't cry if I what ever.... How do you know that his kids wanted to say something. Most times when someone is accuse of a crime or mistreatment. Family and friends are the first to come to the person's defense. Man you live in the NY area right, you watch the news. About 2/3 of the news is family and friends defending someone's accused actions. I am more curious that the press have taken a stance like this since it is now common news that MSG already did an investigation and couldn't support her claims of harrassment. She is following her next recourse which is legal and public opinion.

Would you allow your 17+15 YO kids to get involved in this? You have to be kidding me--whatever genious PR person who thought of this angle should give Isiah his money back.

Posted by djsunyc:

briggs, can you provide a link to this?

yeah that wouldbe nice. I haveno clue whats going on

this it?

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/61125.htm

Knicks President Isiah Thomas sat alone in the study of his home and quietly wept the night before a bombshell sex-harassment lawsuit became a public scandal, his son says.

"He cried," said Joshua Thomas, 17, recalling the emotional moment when he spotted his dad in his private home study with tears in his eyes.

The teen, who goes by Josh, said he glimpsed his father's inner turmoil Tuesday night — the day a former Knicks executive filed a scathing lawsuit in Manhattan federal court accusing Thomas of calling her crude names and asking her for sex.

The threat of legal action had been brewing for weeks behind the scenes at Madison Square Garden. But it was on Tuesday night, after the suit became a reality, that Thomas found himself at the center of a swirling media storm. The scandalous headlines hit the next day.

Asked if his father seemed angry at accusations by Anucha Browne Sanders, who was fired as the team's senior VP for marketing and business operations, that Thomas had cursed and belittled her when she rebuffed his romantic advances, Josh said, "No."

He said his dad was wounded.

"He's hurt," the teen said.

He said his father "felt used, like a pawn."

His mom, Lynn Thomas, took the explosive charges against her husband in stride, Josh said.

"She really just laughed it off," the teen said. "He told her and she laughed."

Thomas' college sweetheart strongly reassured her kids that their dad was not the womanizing bully described by Browne Sanders.

"She told us, 'Your father is a good man. We've been married for 20 years, and no one knows him like I do. I know when he's telling the truth and I know when he's lying.' "

The poised teen, who plays basketball and is applying to universities in Washington, D.C., briefly discussed the strain on their family after telephoning a Post reporter who had stopped by the Thomas home Friday night in a gated community in upstate Purchase.

He said his mother did not want to make any comments yet, "but she told me I could issue a statement on her behalf."

"She wants to be strong for him and for the family," he said. "She stands by him 100 percent, as do I and my sister." His sister, Lauren, is 15.

Josh said he spent a tumultuous day at his father's side Wednesday, the day Thomas held a press conference to deny the charges in Sanders' suit. "He told me bad things happen to good people, but in the end the truth will prevail."

Josh said his family has "no ill feelings" toward his dad's accuser, a former college basketball player and mother of three, but called her charges "unbelievable."

"Of course, we don't believe it's true," he said. "I don't want to believe anything negative about Anucha, but I know these allegations are false. I don't know what her motivations are."

He said the family was acquainted with Sanders, but had little contact with her — and that his father rarely mentioned her.

"He never said anything about Anucha," he said. "Anucha was never a topic of discussion. They did not interact on a daily basis. She was in marketing, and he dealt with basketball."

Josh said his family is coping with the controversy and media glare by "going about our business."

"We've been through a lot as a family, " he said. "We'll get through this."

Posted by Marv:

"She told us, 'Your father is a good man. We've been married for 20 years, and no one knows him like I do. I know when he's telling the truth and I know when he's lying.' "

C'mon anyone else get a laugh out of this? Coming to his defense by saying I know when he's lying??

You hear worst. Like I said listen to the news. I don't think I have seen a case yet of a wrong police shooting or brutality accusation where the said officer family isn't mugging tv cameras to let everyone who pays their electric bills that they knew such and such for so long and this person is capable of it. I would be more distrub if someone's family wouldn't come to a member's defense like this. I still give Sen. Clinton a lot of respect for coming to her husband's defense with vigor, even though it made her look like a fool later on. And I don't know about other families but 17 and 15 to give quotes. The way Briggs protrayed it, you would think his kids held a press conference. A reporter talking to a reporter one on one, is a hell of a lot different.

Posted by Marv:

"She told us, 'Your father is a good man. We've been married for 20 years, and no one knows him like I do. I know when he's telling the truth and I know when he's lying.' "

C'mon anyone else get a laugh out of this? Coming to his defense by saying I know when he's lying??

I wouldn't laugh because my wife would know if I was lying or not.

Now, maybe I'm not the two faced liar some think isiah is.

Posted by Killa4luv:

I know one thing. He better not be lying, or this is gonan get really really ugly.

Right - the stupidest and most arrogant thing to do is perpetuate a lie and wait for it to explode in your face on a national stage.

Polygraphs are about 90% accurate. No way would I take one even if I were innocent.

Posted by Allanfan20:

Do you know that, or are you just assuming that. And I agree. I wouldn't take one even if I were innocent as well.

It's what I've read. It's an oversimplification because there are two types of errors: positives and misses. I forget what the exactly percentages of correct classifications of true statements as true and false statements as false are, but I do know that it's way too far from 100% for me to even consider volunteering to do it.

Posted by TemujinKnick:

Brain scans are becoming increasingly reliable as a replacement for polygraphs. I think it will be a handful of years yet before they are used in situations like these.

wow, for real? Never even heard of such a thing.