Isiah Thomas given one year to show significant progress
The Dirt:
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,” he said. “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 Spin: On one hand, this team is so bad (and it’s Isiah’s fault) that not even Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown could improve them - as coach he lost 10 games more than the team did the year before. On the other hand, the Knicks are just about as low as a franchise can get right now - depending on the definition of “significant progress” - is it 5 games? 10? - it would be almost impossible for this team not to improve on some level. It sounds like Isiah Thomas is getting yet another in a long line of free passes.
Knicks’ Thomas has one year to show progress (FOX Sports)
