Browne Sanders wept on the witness stand when she recalled telling Steve Mills, the president of MSG Sports, about Gonsalves and Marbury. The Marbury sex tale is not central to Browne Sanders’s case against Thomas and Dolan. But it is being used to show what does and does not happen when employees complain about sexual harassment at the Garden. Browne Sanders has accused Thomas of verbally, then sexually, harassing her during the two years they worked together; she said that she repeatedly told Mills to intervene but that he never did.
She also testified that in late 2005, after complaining to Mills that Thomas had poisoned her work environment, he warned her against persisting with her harassment claims. “Steve said Isiah’s going to start a rumor about you having an affair with Jeff Nix” —a Knicks assistant general manager at the time — "and I said, ‘Is this a threat?’ "

She said that Mills dissuaded her from hiring a lawyer.

It's disgusting.

When I question the reason for the move it seems not to make any sense. If all this time Grunwald was doing exactly what Dolan wanted, then why would they demote him? It seems that it makes more sense that Grunwald and Dolan disagreed on moves. How else can we interpret the demotion? We just don't know, but hopefully some truth will eventually come out.

I think Dolan has been unimpressed with Grunwald's moves and is looking down the line to big decisions that will have to be made on the Coach and roster. When Dolan went over Walsh's head in the Melo trade negotiations it was the same kind of "vote of no confidence" move.

And we're wondering why we repeatedly get fleeced in trades/miss out on deals. Who's supposed to respect us?

VCoug wrote:This organization is such an embarrassment. The timing of this is completely insane. And we're bringing in a guy with a terrible track record with player personnel experience. And I found this on Posting and Toasting:

Browne Sanders wept on the witness stand when she recalled telling Steve Mills, the president of MSG Sports, about Gonsalves and Marbury. The Marbury sex tale is not central to Browne Sanders’s case against Thomas and Dolan. But it is being used to show what does and does not happen when employees complain about sexual harassment at the Garden. Browne Sanders has accused Thomas of verbally, then sexually, harassing her during the two years they worked together; she said that she repeatedly told Mills to intervene but that he never did.
She also testified that in late 2005, after complaining to Mills that Thomas had poisoned her work environment, he warned her against persisting with her harassment claims. “Steve said Isiah’s going to start a rumor about you having an affair with Jeff Nix” —a Knicks assistant general manager at the time — "and I said, ‘Is this a threat?’ "

She said that Mills dissuaded her from hiring a lawyer.

It's disgusting.

I agree, this scumbag shouldn't be allowed to set foot in the garden. I don't have to "wait and see" how Mills does to know he that shouldn't have any job at MSG in the first place, let alone one he has zero qualifications for.

GoNyGoNyGo wrote:The only way dip**** Dolan sells the team is if they are not profitable anymore. The way that happens is if the fans stop going, stop watching AND stop buying anything to do with the team. Then and only then will he sell.

Unfortunately, we are stupid and continually appease him buy doing all of those things.

woah woah, i did my part by only watching one game last year, and that's because i wanted to see d'antoni/nash more than i wanted to see knicks

The bottom line is the product on the floor.

If your worried about what the players think then consider that Mills was very much in the running to lead the players union.
I doubt very much his hiring will turn off the players.

Again, Knicks are very deep in GM type talent. So I doubt we'll suffer too much.

Im not outraged because one just comes to expect this stuff.

I'll say it again, someone is going to write the book and it will be interesting!

GoNyGoNyGo wrote:The only way dip**** Dolan sells the team is if they are not profitable anymore. The way that happens is if the fans stop going, stop watching AND stop buying anything to do with the team. Then and only then will he sell.

Unfortunately, we are stupid and continually appease him buy doing all of those things.

I will wait and see with this. If Isiah comes back, then I am out for good. I wont support any NBA team, I wont watch any NBA games anymore.

The only reason, I am waiting is to see if H20 gets to be GM. Even then, I agree with all of you that Mills is not fit to run a Ceasars Pizza let alone the Knicks.

Dolan has tripled his wealth in the last 2 years

NYKBocker wrote:I was ready to watch the Knicks full time again but this gave me pause. I might have to watch Rocket games again.

i'm paused too but this shouldn't affect the product on the hardwoods, at least not this season i hope,

unless the players got a whiff of the stinky fish at the head

gunsnewing wrote:Berman said Mills also pushed for the mcdyess trade. As you can see the problems go deeper than the GM with this joke of an organiztion