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**BDB** · 04-10-2008, 11:56 AM

The article's about Walsh trying to find out what's wrong with the team (in house)but Thomas' comment is interesting.

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The self-proclaimed "Piston for life" also seems unable to acknowledge the Knicks teams of the 1990s. Just days after Patrick Ewing was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, Thomas took a shot at the Ewing era when he said New York fans "haven't been proud here since 1973," when the Knicks won their last championship.
"That's a fact," he said. "You haven't won here since 1973."

http://www.newsday.com/sports/basket...,1092564.story

**USSKittyHawk** · 04-11-2008, 03:58 AM

^ Here is a response for IT for flapping his gums:

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We shouldn’t be shocked by anything that Isiah Thomas says anymore. In his defense, he is receiving media advice from people within his own organization who have been plotting his demise since day one. (And you know who you are.)

I still remember Thomas telling me a few years ago that he didn’t trust most of the people around him. He should have trusted his instincts.

Besides never receiving sound advice, Thomas is also the victim of his own arrogance. He figured he could smooth talk every New Yorker just because he conned James Dolan into hiring him, keeping him and then extending him.But the Teflon Con never got New York. He’s always felt and acted like an outsider and the more he talks the more he proves it.

I still love the story that was written about Thomas 10 months after he was hired, the one where he spoke of riding the subway to work. It was a nice try but no one with an ounce of common sense believed him. This is the same guy who when the Knicks would train in Charleston, S.C., he wouldn’t even stay in the same hotel as the players. And when camp ended, instead of taking a bus with the players to the airport, Isiah would have his own car service.

So even though we know he’s never taken the New York City subway, let’s assume for argument sake, that he has. It gets better. While riding the subway, Thomas maintains that it was not uncommon for complete strangers to confront him and want to fight him about trades or signings that he had just made. (Now remember, this is before he mortgaged the future on Eddy Curry and signed Jerome James and Jared Jeffries. This was before most people figured out that Isiah had no idea what he was doing.)

Just to recap, not only are we to believe that Isiah is riding the subway but there are enraged Knick fans who want to knock him out.

Meanwhile, the rest of us who ride the subway - or at least 99.9 percent of the people on the subway - follow the same rule: they avoid eye contact.

But let’s say that back in 2004 Isiah is on the subway and is spotted by someone, preferably a Knick fan. Would that Knick fan a) Avoid speaking to Thomas, b) Say hello to him, c) Ask him for his autograph or d) Challenge him to a fight because he traded Charlie Ward and Howard Eisley to Phoenix for Stephon Marbury?

Really now?

But that’s Isiah, he just talks and talks as a way of distracting people - especially Dolan - from judging him on his record. The only time Isiah talks about his record is when he is referring to his playing days. And make no mistake about it, he was a brilliant point guard. We all know that.

But as a coach and a president, he is an abject failure. He could never accomplish what Pat Riley, Jeff Van Gundy, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld achieved here. They got New York. Isiah Thomas is just a clueless tourist whose trip is about to end.

I’d like to see him get on a subway now.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ba..._fool_jam.html

@ Isiah Thomas being called the "Teflon Con".

**USSKittyHawk** · 04-11-2008, 04:00 AM

One more thing....

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"Getting through New York in 1993 was tougher than getting past Detroit in 1991. The Knicks were much better defensively than those Piston teams. And it was a more brutalizing series. But the Knicks had only two scorers, Patrick Ewing and John Starks. So they had to dive for balls and work hard for everything. They totally understood that. It was a war."

Michael Jordan from the book "Rare Air - Michael On Michael"

**Krstic All Star** · 04-11-2008, 06:54 AM

I love the Teflon Con line.

Isiah's self-delusion really knows no bounds...

knickstorm · 04-11-2008, 03:27 PM

mother f'in isiah is screwing us till the end,,,,,,,,,now all of a sudden we're gonna finish the season on a win streak and cost ourselves a couple slots at the very least.......how fitting.

**Truknicksfan** · 04-15-2008, 04:53 PM

--Start Rant--

Ok, this guy is a complete idiot. To tell US, that we havnt been proud since 1973 is a joke. I couldnt be more proud of those 90s teams.

Its sooooo funny that this guy dosent even relize what a complete ******* he is.The whole world is laughing at him and hes so thick headed and stupid he dosnt even relize it. A Horrible GM, and Horrible Coach and on top of all that he is a Horrible person.

--end rant--

**knicksfan** · 04-18-2008, 01:45 PM

Good riddance, Teflon Con. Used to be my favorite NBA player (sorry Knicks fans, I really love the Knicks, but personally my 1-2-3 was always Isiah-Jordan-Magic) This is no more though. I still respect what he did as a player, but as an executive the man can't do anything except draft. He can't even think things out thoroughly (Example of signing Jerome James then trading for Eddy Curry.) I could have done a more competent job of running the Knicks out of High School.

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