Posted by Killa4luv:
Bill Simmons feels relevant right now. He's not. I could debate several of those points of the top of my head. Is Rick Carlisle somehow a bad coach because the season after he's gone the pistons won a championship?
to be able to give credit to a team for being 2 possesions away from something (losing) when it makes hime look bad, but not do the same when it makes him look good, is a clear and total bias.
Does he factor in this little guy named Allan Houston who went from good to gone in the matter of a couple of months after Steph arrived? Who could have expected this guy would turn into dust over the course of the next 2 seasons? No one.
Anyone can hate, some of the moves can be questioned, but some of this stuff is just not true.
Eddy Curry can't be traded? TEAMS ARE ALREADY ASKING ABOUT HIS AVAILABILITY!!!!! What a freaking moron!!!! A hater is a hater. He has a valid point about our record being one of the worst, that is a fact. But this is character assasination, not analysis of GM. This is a smear of an individuals entire professional record. Except of course for that which cannot be debated: his basketball career.*
Why has no one EVER written a piece like this about Kevin McHale? A guy who for what 10+ years has had one of the best players to ever play the game and only got him enough firepower to get him past the first round once? Kevin McHale is the worst GM in basketball by a freaking mile. Who has ever done less with more? Who could possibly be worse? Oh yeah, I forgot, McHale was a celtic, and he's white.
Yes I said it. Isiah isn't being targeted only because he's black, but you better believe its a part of the deal. Layden NEVER got this and did a much worse job all around. From drafting to trading, to free agent signing, LAYDEN sucked ass!!
First of all, Isiah is only being "treated" by one obnoxious writer, not a reporter, not THE MEDIA!
Layden was hated by the masses. The hate thrown his way Isiah has yet to even have a sliver of of it.
Baylor and Mchale were not controversial during their playing days. Neither owned part of a team and was voted to leave the ownership group, hoodwinked a minor league (I have read both accounts, I don't know it all, but ex-CBA owners think Isiah burned them bad), coached team well during the season and twice got bounced in the first round,, got blackballed by Jordan on the dream team for shutting him out during an allstar game, perhaps in jest he dissed Larry Bird, and as a GM inflated our payroll by 50% and for all his charisma, he disappears from time to time when the team needs a voice.
Now Im not hating on Isiah, but this is the past that Isiah has to live with. I give him a lot of credit for sticking his neck out and being the player he was, and the balls to go at it from the business side.
Simmons I thought did a funny job of all this. He is not relevant and Isiah should have just blown him away or made light of his negative stance.
The knicks are a bell weather franchise in this league and to date its record sucks and payroll is off the charts. Isiah could have just pointed to what good is being accomplished and been done with him.