As I stated earlier in the week, this overlooked NBA controversy promises the get dirty, well I was right. Thank goodness, there hasn’t been any news worthy stories for Court TV, in about 2 weeks now.

“Knick President and coach Isiah Thomas can be a charmer with a crowd, but a former team executive suing him for alleged sexual harassment told jurors yesterday he’s a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

“He was always starting sentences with the word ‘bitch,’ ” statuesque ex-marketing veep Anucha Browne Sanders testified in Manhattan federal court.
“Bitch, I don’t give a f- - - about the sponsors. Bitch, I don’t give a f- - - about ticket sales. That’s your job,” Sanders quoted Thomas as telling her whenever she tried to involve players in promotional events for the failing team.

Sanders managed to maintain her cool in the courtroom, even as the seemingly unfazed Thomas bizarrely laughed while she talked.”

Bitch, that sucks. Bitch, check this out, in my previous article about this case I made a reference about Thomas laughing at her. And yet some thought I made it up. Bitch, you people were wrong. Bitch, let’s keep reading.

“Sanders, a senior vice president for the team from 2000 to 2006, acknowledged that in public, Thomas is “very pleasant and personable. He was the Isiah that we see.”

But behind the scenes, the hotheaded coach, who joined the team in 2003, flew into frequent rages, dropping f-bombs and targeting venom toward her, the team’s only female vice president, she said.

He also allegedly took aim at whites.

Sanders said that when she asked Thomas at one point to hand-sign letters to season-ticket holders, he spat, “I don’t give a f- - - about these white people.”

She said that prompted her to remind the coach that 80 percent of the team’s season-ticket holders are white.”

Oh sweet the race card gets played. Even though it has nothing to do with this case, and has no merit, it still gets played. Even I didn’t see that one coming.

“But she finally cracked when she said Thomas suddenly flipped his approach - professing his love and suggesting they go “off-site.”

Thomas first pulled her aside at a Christmas party in 2004, and the two had joined in a basketball game called “horse,” Sanders said.

That’s when Thomas told her, “I figured out why we have problems. It’s because we’re so much alike. I’m in love with you. It’s like the movie, ‘Love and Basketball,’ ” Sanders said.

“I said, ‘You’re out of your mind,’ ” Sanders said. “I wanted to get out of there as fast as I could. I was just nervous.”

Sometime later, Thomas called Sanders to a meeting in his office, purportedly to discuss staffing issues, closed the door and gave her a “big hug,” she said.

Has anyone seen this bitch? Isiah was seeing Tyra Banks. Why would he pass that up for you? Even if this story is true, why would you cock-block him? I mean, not to be rude, but you’re uglier than sin.

“He said, ‘You know I’m in love with you,’ ” Sanders recalled. “I said, ‘Isiah, we just need to figure out a way to work together. Where else do you have an African-American president of the Garden, an African-American president of the team and an African-American vice president?’

“It is a tremendous message to minorities that this even exists,” a teary-eyed Sanders recalled saying, clearing her throat as she struggled to repeat his response.

“I want to take you off-site for some private time,” she said Thomas told her.

OK, I’m calling bullshit here. You mean to tell me that Isiah Thomas told you he was in love with you, and your response was that? Rrrriiiigggghhhhtttttt. That makes no sense, and if it doesn’t make sense, then it’s probably not true. That’s like if Angelina Jolie hit on me and I said “We can’t do this, we both hate Courtney Cox, and this would devastate all Courtney Cox haters out there”.

So I profess on this day 9/12/07.

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