Your Mother Slept With Wilt Chamberlain

Right now millions of New Yorkers are celebrating. No, they aren’t celebrating the Yankees (who suck) being in the post season, they’re celebrating that finally Isiah Thomas will be fired once the guilty verdict is handed down. Which really sucks for the Knicks since they ordered all those talking Isiah Thomas bobble heads that say “I don’t give a fuck about those white people!” whenever the Knicks make a 3 point shot.

“A jury indicated Monday that it believes New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden committed sexual harassment against a former team executive who brought a $10 million lawsuit that quickly turned into a public relations disaster for the once-proud franchise.

There was no official verdict, but the wording of a note to the judge by the jury — and instructions on a verdict form it was using — suggested it had reached decisions against Thomas and the other defendants, Madison Square Garden and MSG Chairman James Dolan.

The four women and three men on the panel said they reached a decision on eight of the nine questions on the verdict form. They were deadlocked on the other question, which asks whether Thomas should have to pay punitive damages.

The jury was instructed only to address the question on Thomas if it found that he and Madison Square Garden committed harassment against the former executive. Similarly, it was told to answer other remaining questions only if it decided that the defendants retaliated against Anucha Browne Sanders by firing her from her $260,000-a-year job.”

You know who’s fault this is? Dennis Rodman, that’s who. He was a bad influence on Isiah. I think Isiah should pull a Jonathan Lee Riches © and sue Rodman, the Detroit Pistons, Larry Brown, Joseph Enterprises who are the makers of Chia Pet & Kevin Federline, who incidentally won custody of his children that he had with Brittney “Baldy” Spears, for damages that include controlling his thoughts and actions, emotional distress, harassment & putting subliminal messages that are directed to him in the show “Dancing With the Stars”. I think the sum of 4 Quadrillion dollars in pennies is sufficient.

“The note likely means the jury has decided “against the Garden, against Thomas and against Dolan,” said Jerry Reisman, an employment attorney with the Long Island firm Reisman, Peirez and Reisman.

Like many legal observers, Reisman said a verdict against MSG “would be demonstrative of its arrogance in not settling this matter” with Browne Sanders and risking the embarrassment of letting it go to trial.

Browne Sanders’ case presented the Garden as an “Animal House” in sneakers, a place where nepotism, sexism, crude remarks and crass language were part of the culture.

Browne Sanders, a former Northwestern college basketball star, characterized Thomas as a foul-mouthed lout who initially berated her as a “bitch” and a “ho” before his anger gave way to ardor, with Thomas making unwanted advances and encouraging her to visit him “off site.”

Thomas, who was hired in December 2003, followed her to the stand and denied all her allegations. Attorneys for Thomas and the Garden also portrayed Browne Sanders as incompetent and unable to adapt once the NBA great arrived as the Knicks’ president.

“That’s not about sexual harassment,” MSG attorney Ronald Green said in his closing argument. “That’s about team politics.”

You know Mrs. Sanders makes nepotism, sexism, crude remarks & crass language sound like a bad thing. I would love to work there. I’m redoing my resume after I’m done here. I’m still not believing the part about Thomas calling her a bitch and ho continuously, she’s 3 times his size, she could have hurt him.

“In her closing argument, Browne Sanders’ attorney Anne Vladeck made note of Thomas’ charismatic style and incandescent grin.

“There is no question Mr. Thomas can be charming and flash an engaging smile,” she told the jury. “That does not give him the right to treat Browne Sanders like she is his woman.”

The case, from its inception, proved a public relations nightmare for the Knicks and the Garden, with intense coverage of the three-week trial focusing on its tawdriest aspects — star guard Stephon Marbury having sex with an intern outside a strip club, raunchy come-ons from a Marbury cousin to his Garden co-workers, Thomas’ videotaped remarks about the racial dynamics of calling a woman “a bitch.”

His woman? How many men out there reading this call their girlfriends or wives a bitch and a ho? If any you said “I do”, then you should ashamed of yourselves. It’s my job to berate them not yours. You know this whole intern thing is getting old, after all as I detailed in this article here, the intern testified that she willing had sex with Marbury, and quite frankly she seems like a freaky slut.

Now the fun will begin when the Knicks have to fire Thomas, and they will have to fire him. Finding a quality coach this late in the game is impossible, unless they’re prepared to kiss Larry Brown’s ass while tonguing his balls. Thomas had Brown run out of New York after just one year of coaching. Karma sure is a bitch huh?

So I profess on this day 10/02/07.

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