<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">GREENBURGH, N.Y., May 30 ? For weeks, reporters have been trying to get someone within the Knicks to comment on the franchise's fractured state of affairs. On Tuesday, Larry Brown obliged, climbing out of his Audi after reporters approached him at a traffic light and saying that he felt "like a dead man walking." Brown spoke with a smile, and why not? Tuesday's setting with curious motorists driving past while Brown discussed life on a limb was on par with the other bizarre scenes the Knicks have produced in recent weeks. Four times during the past 10 days, including Tuesday, Brown has worked out prospective draft picks while Isiah Thomas, the team's president, has watched from the sideline of the Knicks' practice facility. Reporters were not allowed to watch the workouts or talk to Brown or Thomas, who, along with James L. Dolan, the chairman of Madison Square Garden, apparently wants Brown sent packing. Instead, the college players were marched into the Knicks' news media room and asked by reporters to deconstruct every interaction between Brown and Thomas they had witnessed. In somewhat bemused fashion, they tried to comply. At one point last week, reporters tried to approach Brown by walking to the exit of the players' parking lot. Security guards ordered the reporters to leave and soon the police were on the scene, threatening to make arrests. The reporters ended up standing in the weeds alongside a busy street that cuts in front of the facility and eventually Brown left, waving from behind the windows of a sports utility vehicle as he passed. On Tuesday, Brown did more than wave. He pulled over. The reporters had camped several blocks from the first traffic light Brown was likely to stop at. When he saw them, he steered his car onto an access road, parked and did something he could not stop himself from doing all season. He talked. "As many questions as you have, I have," Brown said when asked to address the notion that he is finished as Knicks coach after a disastrous 23-59 season. </div> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/31/sports/b...l/31knicks.html
This really sucks for NY. I would keep LB if i could. But it seems hard when half of the team Hates him. With the oncoming years of salary cap tax, long contracts and frustration,The Knicks need new ownership.
Poor ownership + bad gm-ing will get a franchise killed for a long time. Just look at the Warriors. Actually, Cohan isn't that bad of an owner, he's just not that rich. So therefore, he'll do whatever it takes to make profit as all business men do. He's not ridiculously cheap like Donald Sterling has shown. But GMs grossly overpaying players or taking on bad deals really sucks. Especially, when it involves trading of unprotected draft picks. Man
I think Larry Brown should have never taken this job. He could have spent the winter of his life with some cash in his pocket, nothing to worry about but the flying time. People would have remembered him as a winner. Now he's stigmatized as a losing coach. Same with Isiah Thomas.
