I’m lying here with a severe pain in my upper jaw, the result of gum surgery. While it is uncomfortable, I know it’s temporary.
The pain, however, from being a Knick fan appears permanent, as this report from ESPN via the New York Daily News demonstrates.
The New York Daily News, citing an unnamed source, reported Thursday that owner James Dolan’s preference is to keep Thomas on the sidelines, even after he hires a successor to Thomas to run the organization.
“There isn’t a basketball executive alive who would keep Isiah as head coach, but Jim is telling whoever he interviews, ‘I would prefer to keep Isiah but you do what you have to do,'” the source close to Dolan told the Daily News. “If Isiah isn’t the coach, Jim still wants him to stay in the organization in some capacity.”
There also isn’t a Knick fan who wants Isaiah to stay in New York — and I don’t mean as coach or consultant or in some related basketball capacity. Knick fans want him to move from the city, the state, the region. In fact, Knick fans would be happy if the former Pistons star made his way back to the Midwest — perhaps as a distributor for used ink cartridges, or a screen-door salesman to submarine fleets.
Memo to Jimmy: Fire Isaiah and blow up the roster.
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