Knicks owner gives Isiah one year

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Isiah Thomas has one year to turn around the Knicks -- something Larry Brown couldn't do. And if Thomas doesn't, he'll be gone, too.

"I'm saying this right with Isiah here. This is his team," Madison Square Garden chairman James Dolan said Monday. "He made this bed. There's nobody better than him to make this thing go forward.

"But he has to do that and he has one year, one season to do that. At this time next year Isiah will be with us if we can all sit here and say that this team has made significant progress towards its goal of eventually becoming an NBA championship team. If we can't say that, then Isiah will not be here."
The remarks by Dolan were his first since firing Brown as coach Thursday and replacing him with Thomas, the team president and general manager.

Dolan acknowledged that the team "made a mistake" hiring Brown.

Thomas assembled the roster that went 23-59 to tie the franchise record for losses in a season. And though Dolan said the Knicks are still rebuilding, he wants to see results next season.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/basketball/nba/06/26/thomas.dolan.knicks.ap/index.html

 

[finfansince72]

Damn I am considering getting the Knicks on satelitte to watch this circus game by game. This is just great stuff.

 

[Prime]

He should've have given him a chance at all.

Knicks better be glad that there home is in New York because of it wasn't, then I doubt we will be seeing alot of fans at the stadium.

 

[Boik14]

It was pretty funny watching this interview. At various points during the interview you could sense tension between dolan and isiah.

Funny thing is Id rather have neither. The owner is a blithering idiot who's willing to spend but too much so, and the GM cant make a decent trade to address needs as opposed to wants but he does draft well. Here's an idea, fire isiah then yourself. But wait until after the draft.