Not because of this incident, thought relatedly, I'm not at all surprised that Marv Albert was fired under Isiah's watch.

The stuff with Shandon, Chaney, Marv, Anuscha, Wilkens, Larry, the entire trainer and medical staff... it's really too much ego from Isiah. Too much about him. That hubris and ego may have made him a great warrior on the court, but he's too petty and vindictive for high office.

this has to be personal and here is the reason. greg anthony hadn't said anything different from what others have said. i mean, if you want a REAL critic who bashes the knicks, it is barkley. year after year since ewing was traded barkley has thrown dirt on the knicks and made fun of them as well as every decision they have made. but isaih didn't say peep about charles. even though kenny smith address the knicks more sympathetically he has said some colorful remarks against the knicks too. it would make more sense if thomas had mentioned the media collectively and not use names instead of anthony. so it is personal.

All this stuff wont matter if the Knicks start off and play .500 basketball.

Posted by fishmike:

Silver what do you think is better for the Knicks? What would you rather see? .500 play or a terrible start that see's Isiah axed by Christmas?

I honestly dont know. I have no clue what Isiah will do with this team. Its not that I am undecided or I'm on the fence. I cannot anticipate how Stephon, Lee, Frye and Curry will respond this year. Dolan said he'll give Isiah the whole year so there is little chance he will be gone by Christmas. Not even with a terrible start.

The Knicks are a tough team to root for the last 2 years. They have such good young kids that are easy to root for. Then you have a coach, gm and a vet that seem to be the opposite of what the words team and integrity are all about.

Dolan never said Isiah will DEFINITELY have a year. He said he's got a year, but if we get off to a terrible start, hasn't that proven to us that we'll pretty much be bad, regardless? We've gotton off to terrible starts every season since being bad, and we also ended off poorly. I am pretty sure Dolan is tired of all of that and is quite aware that he's losing ticket purchasers (Like myself) by the minute. If he's off to a terrible start, Isiah is gone and he's got nowhere to hide. And honestly speaking, I am siding with Fishmike on that. I'm just sick of being a nervous wreck, thinking Isiah will pull off a horrible trade.

isiah the coach, like lenny and larry before him, will suffer the same fate courtesy of isiah the GM.

LMFAO @ the Bio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephon_Marbury

holy crap... thats too much

I was busy with work this week, so I missed most of this controversy, but...

Wow. Isiah went overboard. I guess the only bright side is that we know Zeke can understand Steph. It's funny, no one ever liked Isiah and I doubt anyone would respect him as a player if he hadn't willed the Pistons to constant playoff success and two championships - otherwise I think his career would be looked at very similar to Marbury's.

Eh, it doesn't bother me too much when either Isiah or Steph open their mouth like this. I don't watch ESPN and they're the only ones who make a big out of this like it matters. Who really cares? It's trash-talking, no worse than what we do to each other. I'm sure ESPN will do an outside the lines report about "Did Isiah cross the line when he attacked a reporter who was just doing his job, sniff" - BUT, Anthony is an ESPN employee who they are obviously going to protect. I hate ESPN. FAR too often, they become the story with their arrogant, blowhard crappy "analysts."

For what it's worth, I've ALWAYS felt Anthony has had an axe to grind with the Knicks. He always talks trash about them, warranted or unwarranted. Maybe he doesn't want to be seen as a Knicks lover, or maybe he's bitter that he was a backup here or maybe he's bitter that he was traded to Portland. Whatever. Greg clearly has some issues with how to handle his professional relationship with the Knicks and he's come out and said far worse than the Balkman comments and not in a humorous Bill Simmons way, so I don't have any problem calling him on it. There's supposed to be no bias in reporting and Anthony clearly has one with the Knicks.

A lot of ESPN analysts do. Does it bother anyone else that Steve Kerr always goes soft on the Bulls? He's friends with Paxson and he came out on an ESPN outside the lines report about the Curry trade and started spewing this unresearched bullsh!t about how Curry had the same thing Reggie Lewis had and it was irresponsible to let Curry play. It was clearly done to protect Paxson. ESPN really sucks. I can't watch sports center anymore, their baseball announcers make me want to pull my ears off, their "commentators" and "analysts" are jokes. Joe Thiesman? ugh. They have a few good people, but mostly it's crap. Not to mention their HD broadcasts are RARELY actually in HD.