Why was Lenny Wilkins Fired? (I mean, why did he
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djsunyc
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4/18/2007 3:04 PM
b/c no other coach have the luxury of utilizing "excuses". only isiah gets that privilege.
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newyorknewyork
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4/18/2007 4:34 PM
http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxMjcmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY5MzY3MzImeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2
Lenny can empathize with Larry Friday, May 19, 2006 By STEVE ADAMEK STAFF WRITER Time passes, but Larry Brown's status remains the same. He's still the Knicks' coach, but still in a limbo the team has yet to alter by either endorsing him publicly or setting him free. Lenny Wilkens can identify. In remarks Thursday on ESPN-1050 radio's Michael Kay Show and in the Seattle Times, Isiah Thomas' first head coach hire said he believes he knows the territory in which Brown now finds himself. "[Thomas] had his ideas and I had mine," Wilkens said on the radio. "It seemed like we were going in separate directions." Hired to replace Don Chaney on Jan. 14, 2004, then forced to resign Jan. 22, 2005, Wilkens was 40-41 with the Knicks. That included a 23-19 record in his first half-season after he got the job that pushed the Knicks into their lone playoff appearance of the past five seasons. His departure, he said, was a "mutual thing," saying that in the end he and Thomas "just didn't seem to agree on a number of things." His going-away present: $10 million, all the money he was owed on what was left of his contract (1½ seasons, plus a team option for another). That's the salient issue that could determine Brown's future: money. Will the Knicks hand him the more than $40 million he's owed for the four years left on the five-year, $50 million contract he got just 10 months ago? Or will he blink and take less to escape an uncomfortable situation? Brown's agent, Joe Glass, insists no talks for a lower goodbye figure will happen, that if the Knicks don't want Brown, they'll have to fire him. Team history, however, suggests the process could get ugly. Chaney conducted a morning pregame shootaround, then got fired by Thomas after he arrived at the arena only hours later. Herb Williams (who coached one game between Chaney and Wilkens before taking over for Wilkens in 2005) was left in his own limbo last summer. He ran draft workouts and fulfilled the other off-season duties of a head coach before Brown escaped Detroit and pushed Williams back to his old assistant's job. One of four Knicks coaches since Thomas became team president 29 months ago, Wilkens said the first indication that things wouldn't work out was the Keith Van Horn for Tim Thomas trade at the 2004 All-Star break. Then he said he realized the end was near when, two games into the 2004-05 season after the worst home-opening loss in franchise history, his longtime assistant and friend Dick Helm was fired. Not privy to the day-to-day Brown-Thomas relationship, Wilkens declined to offer much about what might be wrong between the two, other than to say of Brown, "I don't know, from any perspective, if you can constantly criticize your players, I don't think that works. "It didn't seem like [he and Thomas] were on the same track." Which was something with which he became familiar, too. "It was a mistake," he said. "I never should have gone there." https://vote.nba.com/en Vote for your Knicks.
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Bippity10
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4/19/2007 9:39 AM
Nothing like hiring two coaches in a row that you don't agree with.
I just hope that people will like me
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Nalod
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4/19/2007 9:53 AM
Does Isiah agree with himself now he is his own boss?
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Why was Lenny Wilkins Fired? (I mean, why did he