Wallace Matthews
September 18, 2007

She was apparently barely competent at her stated job but supremely confident in her abilities. (Think Stephon Marbury). She was a lot better at covering her own behind than saving anyone else's (Think Isiah Thomas). And she continues to carry an air of entitlement that far outweighs her accomplishments (Think Jim Dolan).

It's a wonder that she couldn't fit in at the World's Most Heinous Arena. People like her walk away with a suitcase full of lovely parting gifts every day of the week. (Think Allan Houston, Travis Knight, Luc Longley, Shandon Anderson, Muggsy Bogues, Larry Brown ...).

So you can hardly blame her for having seen so many other incompetents use the Garden as their personal ATM and wondering, "Where's Anucha's share?"

And it's just as easy to understand Dolan - called "Triple" by his underlings behind his back in honor of the old joke, "He was born on third base and thinks he hit a ..." for looking at Anucha and thinking, "Finally, here's one failure I won't have to pay off."

They are the perfect pair, she who taketh and he who giveth to go away, and in a rare example of true American justice, they deserve one another.

Anucha followed the tried and true corporate path to success. First you schmooze, then you sue, and Dolan, frankly, is too dumb to know that the only reason he has been allowed to run the Garden into a barren patch of weeds is because his father, Charles, would give him anything to keep his clumsy hands out of the family business, which is Cablevision.

So Jim Dolan turned what was formerly the most respected, even revered, sports address in the history of the modern world into his own personal sandbox, which he has proceeded to turn into a litter box.

And that is the true wrong being done here, not the rough language Isiah Thomas used in the presence of the delicate Ms. Browne Sanders, nor the fact that this glib but overly sensitive young woman managed to blow a job that paid her $260,000 a year.

Browne's incompetence and lack of character were apparent when, confronted with some (admittedly) false income tax returns filed between 2001 and 2004, she was unable to locate or decipher Schedule C, which any one of us who has ever fudged, er, itemized our deductions is intimately acquainted with. By the way, one of her duties for the Knicks was managing a budget. That's basically where she lost me.

Frankly, I couldn't care less who wins this case and neither should you. Browne Sanders' allegations of sexual harassment leak like a sieve when you consider that this corporate android, so adept in obsessively memo-ing, e-mailing, texting and lecturing colleagues on every aspect of her mundane little job as the Knicks' senior VP of marketing and business operations, never got around to putting in writing any of her "concerns" about Thomas' alleged unwanted sexual advances.

And Thomas' protestations of innocence ring about as true as his promises that someday within our lifetimes, the Knicks will be an important franchise again.

From testimony presented yesterday in Manhattan Federal Court, it is clear that what Browne Sanders now considers unacceptable behavior on Thomas' part was a lot easier to take when she was still cashing those hefty Garden paychecks. It is just as obvious that this trial is not about restoring Browne Sanders' dignity or self-respect. It is about money, or more accurately, how much she should accept for the right to walk away.

And by the way, if things were so unbearable at the Garden for Browne Sanders, why is she seeking reinstatement of her job? Who would want to go back to such a place?

Dolan, in his arrogance, offered $300,000 for Anucha to go away. In her egomania, she is demanding $10 million. Probably, they'll settle somewhere in the middle, which will help pay for the $650,000 worth of renovations to her "$1 million-plus" home in Short Hills, N.J.

Either way will be a miscarriage of justice, a serious waste of taxpayer money and a shameful waste of everyone's time.

But it will not be nearly so criminal as what Dolan has done to the Garden.

In allowing its dirty linen to be aired in public, Dolan gives us all a glimpse into his toxic snakepit in which Anucha Browne Sanders found she was no more than a lowly worm

Posted by MaTT4281:

And that is the true wrong being done here, not the rough language Isiah Thomas used in the presence of the delicate Ms. Browne Sanders, nor the fact that this glib but overly sensitive young woman managed to blow a job that paid her $260,000 a year.

Is the phrase "blow a job" necessary in a sexual harassment case?