Hired as president of the Knicks in December of 2003, Thomas said he targeted James as the centerpiece of a future title winner in New York "from the first day he got in the league, as soon as I got the job."

that's funny, i coulda sworn he traded for the contracts of Zach Randolph, Eddy Curry & Jamal Crawford when he took the job... those 3 players alone would have been on the books for about $33M worth of salary in 2010.

I found Isiah's official profile. Take a look.

Curry played at a high level for Thomas for a bit, but soon enough devolved into a symbol of everything that went wrong between Seventh and Eighth avenues.

"There was a method behind the madness," Thomas said. He was confident Curry would opt out in 2010 to clear the necessary space for a fellow client of Leon Rose, name of LeBron James.

"My instincts always told me LeBron would be great in New York," Thomas said. "I remember talking to Jerry West about when he was going after Shaq and how he mortgaged the team and what he went through. I kept saying to Jerry, 'I think if I position this right, I'll have a shot at LeBron.'"

So he gave Curry that contract deliberately leaving out a team option to terminate it in 2010, because he was confident that Curry himself would opt out of all that money in order to allow us to sign Lebron- ha ha! Plus he fails to mention what about the other contracts he had clogging up the cap- Zach, Crawford, Jared Jeffries. What positioning did he do to get Lebron?! Absolute cr*p!

jimimou wrote:

grillco wrote:I didn't see the larger article at first. I can't read it, because just scanning bits here and there...well, it's just sad. The man is COMPLETELY deluded. It seems like he is clinically insane. I'll give him David Lee, but everything else he did left no real room for LeBron. And when was anyone saying look out for the Knicks before that CF of a trial came to light? I hope they can shore up his connection to the situation with the workouts with college players and get him banned from the NBA. Even then Stern will need to go further and preven t Dolan from having ANY contact with the man, but it might just be easier to convince Charles Dolan to remove his incompetent son from management of MSG.

with msg and the knicks being about 2% of total charles dolan's total wealth, its not even on his radar. it's like giving your kid a bike.

But his kid doesn't know how to ride a bike.

GustavBahler wrote:Its amazing that he still blames it all on bad luck and other people. He has learned nothing, I hope Dolan has. I'm not holding my breath.

1) The mark of a true con-man: "wasn't me".
2) Do you trust Little Jimmy to do the right thing?

K22 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:Its amazing that he still blames it all on bad luck and other people. He has learned nothing, I hope Dolan has. I'm not holding my breath.

1) The mark of a true con-man: "wasn't me".
2) Do you trust Little Jimmy to do the right thing?

I trust him to do what he wants, he doesn't care if its the right thing.

GustavBahler wrote:

K22 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:Its amazing that he still blames it all on bad luck and other people. He has learned nothing, I hope Dolan has. I'm not holding my breath.

1) The mark of a true con-man: "wasn't me".
2) Do you trust Little Jimmy to do the right thing?

I trust him to do what he wants, he doesn't care if its the right thing.

Exactly. You really have to wonder if it's stupidity, blatant ignorance, or a combination of the two when it comes to his decision-making.