<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> The search for normalcy in the Knicks’ universe required only a quick glance across the gym floor, to the far sideline, where Jerome James huffed and puffed on an elliptical trainer Wednesday morning while his teammates sprinted up and down the court</p> The well-compensated, perpetually injured James was back where he began training camp in 2005 and 2006. If there were any humor left in the tightly wound organization, team officials might have found it a comically comforting sight.</p> At a minimum, fretting over James’s health figured to be a welcome change from fretting over the $11.6 million penalty handed down Tuesday, when a jury found Coach Isiah Thomas and his bosses had sexually discriminated against a former top executive. After presiding over his second practice Wednesday morning, Thomas was eager to talk about basketball and highly reluctant to discuss any aspect of the three-week trial that humiliated the franchise and tainted his reputation.</div></p> New York Times</p>
If all he could think about was basketball when a woman was accusing him of sexual harrasment then he has serious mental problems.</p>
