Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2795257GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Isiah Thomas got a multiyear contract extension Monday, nine months after he was warned the Knicks needed to show "evident progress" or he'd be out of a job.With the Knicks in the hunt for a playoff spot, Madison Square Garden chairman James Dolan went back on his vow to wait until after the season to make his decision, saying that Thomas would return as coach and team president. Thomas added the coaching duties to his other role in June after Dolan fired Larry Brown following one season. But along with the job came the ultimatum, though Dolan never publicly said what the Knicks needed to do this season to show that progress. But with New York (29-34) already six wins better than last season and currently eighth in the Eastern Conference, Dolan said the improvement under Thomas "needs to be recognized now and not wait." "I believe we have clearly seen significant and evident progress," Dolan said. Dolan's announcement comes well ahead of schedule. When he met with the team's beat writers in December, he stressed that he wouldn't make a decision until after the season. However, the Knicks were 8-15 at the time and coming off a dismal home loss to Boston a night earlier in which they trailed by 30 points. Things quickly got worse for Thomas, as the Knicks lost twice more that week -- the second coming in the brawl with Denver that embarrassed the organization -- to fall to a season-worst eight games under .500. Dolan has since been impressed by a turnaround that has the Knicks on pace to make the playoffs after a two-year absence. They entered Monday with a half-game lead over Orlando for the final spot in the East. More than the record, Dolan praised Thomas for getting the team to play together and for the improvement in the Knicks' young players. Second-year forward David Lee has become one of the NBA's best sixth men, and Eddy Curry has turned into one of the top centers in the East. "I think every player has done well under Isiah," Dolan said. "I think we have a great future." Thomas said Dolan told him of his decision Sunday night. Neither he nor Dolan would give any details of the deal, or when the old one was set to run out. They did say Thomas would stay on in both positions."I feel good that the uncertainty about my professional situation is cleared up," Thomas said after practice. "But again the most important thing is that we keep our team moving forward and we stay focused and continue to try to get into the playoffs." Dolan said there was a "crisis at the end of last season," referring to the poor relationship between Brown and many of the players. That contributed to New York's 23-59 record, which tied for the most losses in franchise history. But the players have rallied behind Thomas, with Dolan pointing to the last 10 days, when the Knicks have had to play through injuries to Jamal Crawford and Lee, two of their top players. "All the players kind of took it upon themselves, being that he had a hand in bringing all of us here," Curry said. "We all felt like it was our duty to go out here and play hard and try to perform and give him some kind of security." Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press</div>More proof that James Dolan is the worst owner in sports.
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension Eh... he earned it. He has the young talent on the court, and that's all I care about.
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension All I care is the Knicks fuck up the rest of the way, so the Bulls get Greg Oden
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DevinHester23 @ Mar 13 2007, 11:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>All I care is the Knicks fuck up the rest of the way, so the Bulls get Greg Oden</div>It's not happening, get it out of your head cause that dream is over.....Knicks are right now a playoff team. (Amazing, isn't it?)<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Eh... he earned it. He has the young talent on the court, and that's all I care about.</div>Exactly how? He's turned the Highest Payroll in Basketball by far into barely being the 8th seed after a bunch of years of dissapointment. He deserves to have been fired a while ago.
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AdropOFvenom @ Mar 13 2007, 01:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DevinHester23 @ Mar 13 2007, 11:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>All I care is the Knicks fuck up the rest of the way, so the Bulls get Greg Oden</div>It's not happening, get it out of your head cause that dream is over.....Knicks are right now a playoff team. (Amazing, isn't it?)<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Eh... he earned it. He has the young talent on the court, and that's all I care about.</div>Exactly how? He's turned the Highest Payroll in Basketball by far into barely being the 8th seed after a bunch of years of dissapointment. He deserves to have been fired a while ago.</div>I don't accept the premise of your question.
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension The Knicks are a joke, as well as their front office. If being a sub .500 team gets you a contract extension....just wow Thank God though. The Knicks are in for another 3 years of losing until they realize that you don't win with a team filled with overpayed ego-maniacs.
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Knightz @ Mar 18 2007, 04:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The Knicks are a joke, as well as their front office. If being a sub .500 team gets you a contract extension....just wow Thank God though. The Knicks are in for another 3 years of losing until they realize that you don't win with a team filled with overpayed ego-maniacs.</div>Knicks whooped those Raptors 2day didnt they. :flipa:. Can you name these egomaniacs you speak of?
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension Hmmm, the Raptors are 2-1 against them this year. We were winning going into half-time then we just gave up for some odd reason. The Raptors are 100x better than the Knicks and anyone with common sense know's that. We are in the playoffs. We've won the divison. Where are the pathetic Knicks? Fighting for their lives for 8th! 8th! and their a sub-500 team! We are the 2nd best team in the East as far as I'm concerned. It's Detroit. Then Toronto, Chicago, Cleveland and Miami. Your just jelous you pathetic kid. Now grow up, you look like an idiot.By the way, The Eagles are still a joke.
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension WHY WON'T THE KNICKS LOSE MORE!!!??? I WANT GREG ODEN!!
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension Lol, They won't lose more because the Eastern Conference is junk.
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension We ARE much better. We play with more fire, more intensity, we're out there to win. Francis has been a pleasant surprise and has done a great job filling in for Crawford now that he's gone. We're winning without Lee, and we'll get even better when he comes back.Highest payroll means nothing talent wise. Larry Brown couldn't do anything with it, and now Isiah is. He deserved this extension, and we're only going to get better. I'm not going to argue against Dolan being the worst owner in sports, but this move wasn't a bad one.
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension You think the Knicks are better then the Raptors?LMFAO! What kinda crack are you smokin?You are no where NEAR the Raptors level. Bosh, Bargnani and TJ Ford could EAT your team. If you ask any executive in the NBA they are praising the Raptors, they actually come to play when they face the Raptors. Nobody cares about the Knicks, only in the New York and being a sub-500 team is a success in that town, that lame sports town, with those lame sports teams. Except the Jets, I like the Jets, there a good young team. Unlike the Knicks, who are old and trash. And still can't be a .500 team with a bunch of overpayed egotistic BUMS.
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Knightz @ Mar 18 2007, 04:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Hmmm, the Raptors are 2-1 against them this year. We were winning going into half-time then we just gave up for some odd reason. The Raptors are 100x better than the Knicks and anyone with common sense know's that. We are in the playoffs. We've won the divison. Where are the pathetic Knicks? Fighting for their lives for 8th! 8th! and their a sub-500 team! We are the 2nd best team in the East as far as I'm concerned. It's Detroit. Then Toronto, Chicago, Cleveland and Miami. Your just jelous you pathetic kid. Now grow up, you look like an idiot.By the way, The Eagles are still a joke.</div>You are so fucking biased. You're pretty much worse than DH23.
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Knightz @ Mar 18 2007, 06:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>You think the Knicks are better then the Raptors?LMFAO! What kinda crack are you smokin?You are no where NEAR the Raptors level. Bosh, Bargnani and TJ Ford could EAT your team. If you ask any executive in the NBA they are praising the Raptors, they actually come to play when they face the Raptors. Nobody cares about the Knicks, only in the New York and being a sub-500 team is a success in that town, that lame sports town, with those lame sports teams. Except the Jets, I like the Jets, there a good young team. Unlike the Knicks, who are old and trash. And still can't be a .500 team with a bunch of overpayed egotistic BUMS.</div>He said the KNICKS were Improved from Last Year, not that they were better then the Raptors. For someone who was knocking someone else's grammer in another thread, you could use some reading comprehension help.
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension The Raptors are more improved than the Knicks. EASILY. People had us not even winning 22 games.
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Knightz @ Mar 19 2007, 11:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The Raptors are more improved than the Knicks. EASILY. People had us not even winning 22 games.</div>Which is still completely irrelevant to the topic at hand, which is the KNICKS and the KNICKS's IMPROVEMENT. The Raptors have NOTHING to do with this thread. Man, that reading comprehension needs help.
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Knightz @ Mar 19 2007, 12:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The Raptors are more improved than the Knicks. EASILY. People had us not even winning 22 games.</div>uh, what people?because, i think that's bullshit, cause, everything i saw at the beginning of the year had the raptors in the #6-8 seed in the Eastern Conference.Anyway, BACK TO THE TOPIC, I think this is a good move for the Knicks. Thomas is good, and once Marbury and Francis' contracts are up, things will really start to move well for the Knicks.
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (iknobaer @ Mar 20 2007, 02:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Anyway, BACK TO THE TOPIC, I think this is a good move for the Knicks. Thomas is good, and once Marbury and Francis' contracts are up, things will really start to move well for the Knicks.</div>Not really, Thomas will just trade for another Overrated Guard with a rediculous contract who brings his teams down with him.
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Brooksie5 @ Mar 18 2007, 10:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Knightz @ Mar 18 2007, 04:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Hmmm, the Raptors are 2-1 against them this year. We were winning going into half-time then we just gave up for some odd reason. The Raptors are 100x better than the Knicks and anyone with common sense know's that. We are in the playoffs. We've won the divison. Where are the pathetic Knicks? Fighting for their lives for 8th! 8th! and their a sub-500 team! We are the 2nd best team in the East as far as I'm concerned. It's Detroit. Then Toronto, Chicago, Cleveland and Miami. Your just jelous you pathetic kid. Now grow up, you look like an idiot.By the way, The Eagles are still a joke.</div>You are so fucking biased. You're pretty much worse than DH23.</div>Why because I am right? Cheering for your favorite team and saying there better then another team is being biased? Are you nuts? So basically, if you say Stephen Jackson is great that means your biased? PLEASE, grow up.
Re: 'Better Knicks' get Isiah Thomas an extension <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Knightz @ Mar 23 2007, 11:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Brooksie5 @ Mar 18 2007, 10:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Knightz @ Mar 18 2007, 04:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Hmmm, the Raptors are 2-1 against them this year. We were winning going into half-time then we just gave up for some odd reason. The Raptors are 100x better than the Knicks and anyone with common sense know's that. We are in the playoffs. We've won the divison. Where are the pathetic Knicks? Fighting for their lives for 8th! 8th! and their a sub-500 team! We are the 2nd best team in the East as far as I'm concerned. It's Detroit. Then Toronto, Chicago, Cleveland and Miami. Your just jelous you pathetic kid. Now grow up, you look like an idiot.By the way, The Eagles are still a joke.</div>You are so fucking biased. You're pretty much worse than DH23.</div>Why because I am right? Cheering for your favorite team and saying there better then another team is being biased? Are you nuts? So basically, if you say Stephen Jackson is great that means your biased? PLEASE, grow up.</div>I think the bias was when you feel the need to come into a thread that has nothing to do with the Raptors and start spewing crap about how they are so much better then the Knicks when it has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand. About 15 other NBA teams are better then the Knicks too, but you don't see all of their fans doing the same thing for a reason, because it's irrelevant. :whistling:
