a quick note on isiah thomas.

i just have to take a shot at isiah, officially, on my blog. b/c really, this is too much already, and im not even a knicks fan.

it's not just that i think isiah thomas is the worst GM of all time. it's that im starting to suspect that as GM of the knicks, he's the worst ANYTHING of all time. ie, he is doing this job worse than anyone is doing ANYTHING, ANYWHERE.

i mean, how how how can you think pairing stevie franchise with stephon starbury is gonna be anything other than an unmitigated disaster? this is a glaring truth. as the times's howard beck puts it, "a 29-year-old point guard with a shooter's mentality, francis will join stephon marbury, who is also 29-year-old shoot-first point guard, in a dynamic, pricey, and potentially combustible backcourt."

believe me, "potentially combustible backcourt" is a euphemism for "backcourt that has no chance of being anything more than the biggest pairing of egocentric, immature primadonnas since paris hilton met tara reid."

(and keep in mind, the knicks, also thanks to isiah, already have jamal crawford and quentin richardson--two players whom, based on their positions (both shooting guards) and overall contributions (not much), might best be likened to nicki hilton and nicole richie.)

to sum up, if isiah thomas, after getting dressed one morning, saw that his socks were mismatched--one red, one blue--he'd take the red one off, and keep putting other red socks on, for eternity, continually expecting one of the new red socks to change color once it was on his foot.

for me, this trade is the final straw in a tenure that has had nothing but final straws.

there's not a cabbie in nyc--or the world--that drives worse than isiah runs the knicks; there's not a subway 'sandwich artist' that makes a sandwich worse than the moves 'zeke' makes for the knicks; there's not a wet nurse out there with worse milk; there's not a lawyer that has a worse won-lost trial record; there's not a manicurist who gives a worse manicure; there's not a shoe salesman that's less knowledgeable about feet and footwear; there's not a lazy construction dude who is being more anti-productive on some job site; there's not a beaurocrat in any gov't being more wasteful.

zeke is the worst by far. actually, maybe he does belong in nyc, the home of superlatives.


from the nytimes: "Larry Brown, left, with Steve Francis, center, and Isiah Thomas. The Knicks dealt Penny Hardaway and Trevor Ariza to get Francis."

one more thing. poor(?) larry brown is, of course, forced to endorse all these boneheaded trades. as quoted in the times, referring to the francis acquisition, he said, "We just want basketball players. I don't get caught up in position. When I got the job, everybody talked to me about Steph playing off the ball, and Steph wanted to do that a little bit. I think they both can just play."

translation: "when zeke first injected my scrotum with gonorrhea, i wondered what he was doing. i had, after all, spent my whole life thinking i DIDN'T want gonorrhea. but now that he has followed that up by injecting my rectum with chlamydia, im starting to see his grand plan. i'm now quite certain the two std's will coexist well together, and ultimately lead to some very healthy, robust loins. ill be back in the saddle in no time."