Word: isiah
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...Whatever. It's just the regular season. It means about as much as Isiah Thomas swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's an 82-game stretch of coaches trying not to get fired and players trying not to get microfractures. So don't worry, Portland fans, Greg Oden will be back when it counts - his contract year...
LIABLE Since 2003 the New York Knicks have had five coaches, signed myriad unsuccessful free agents and made just one playoff. Now, another snag: a jury found head coach Isiah Thomas, 46, liable in a sexual-harassment case brought by former team marketing executive Anucha Browne Sanders. The jury found that Thomas created a hostile environment and that Sanders was fired by team owners for complaining; it decided Sanders was entitled to $11.6 million in punitive damages from owners Madison Square Garden and James Dolan of Cablevision. Thomas will not have to pay damages. He told reporters...
...little company grossed just $1 million that first year, but its founders, Warren Struhl and Richard Demb, had big dreams. Their first shop attracted the attention of Isiah Thomas, head coach of the New York Knicks. Renamed Dale and Thomas Popcorn, after the mayor and the Indiana University hoops legend, the company expects to score $50 million in sales this year and has ambitions "to do to popcorn what Starbucks did to coffee," Thomas says...
...FIRED. ISIAH THOMAS, 42, coach of the Indiana Pacers basketball team, by newly hired president Larry Bird. The onetime Pistons star led the Pacers to the play-offs in the three years he coached the team. Observers say the fact that the Pacers never made it past the first round and a long-running rivalry with Celtics legend Bird were the probable reasons behind Thomas' dismissal. Bird's former assistant Rick Carlisle is the leading candidate to take over...
...ISIAH THOMAS, Indiana Pacers head coach During his playing days, the former Detroit Pistons great was never Jordan's biggest fan. So Thomas certainly won't roll out the red carpet to His Airness, who hopes to elevate the 19-63 Wizards into playoff contention. Indy garnered the eighth and final Eastern Conference playoff spot last season with a 41-41 record, so the question Isiah has to be asking himself is, Does the addition of Michael Jordan count for 22 games in the standings...