Don’t hold your breath
I’m beginning to sense Donnie Walsh isn’t rushing to catch a plane.
We keep seeing reports that he’s agreed to preside over basketball operations here, but nobody is going on the record with that information. There’s a good chance we might be in a holding pattern until the end of the season, and we can sit down and have a lengthy discussion at that point.
I stole that line from Isiah Thomas.
He keeps talking like he’s going to be here for an extended postmortem. Does anybody else have a feeling that’s going to occur along the side of Old Saw Mill River Road?
Larry Brown is laughing, trust me.
So is Don Chaney who conducted shoot-around despite persistent speculation he was done a few year ago, reported for work later in the day and was sent back into a wicked snow storm along with assistants Lon Kruger and Brendan Malone, whose family was involved in a weather-related car accident on the way home that evening.
There’s a John Lennon song that keeps playing in my head this week, Instant Karma. (I prefer U2’s cover, by the way).
Walsh isn’t known to be a guy who steps on toes. He probably doesn’t feel comfortable signing on until somebody here informs Thomas clear and evident progress is in the eye of the beholder. It might require a huge leap of faith for James Dolan, whose loyalty often results in strange decisions.
How much did Allan Houston get?
Brian Wilson escaped the magnetic pull of his Svengali, and maybe Dolan can, too.
Canceling practice might be a sign Thomas is done with this organization. He’s running out of healthy bodies, still there was no reason not to at least show up to review film. They are supposed to be developing players for the future? It seems like Thomas needed a day to collect his thoughts.
Maybe he’ll go off in the morning at shoot-around. I’m sure there will be a large audience. Well talk more then. In the meantime, speculate away.
March 25th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Yesterday Isiah said, “You gotta kill me because I’m never stopping.”
And today’s practice was canceled?
Who did it?
March 25th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
I just had a nasty thought. What if this was another lie cooked up by Frank Iosola. I would laugh if Walsh was never hired and Frank was responsible for being the source that espn got.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:13 am
That Isola move would not surprise anyone. With his rag, it’s all about selling newapapers or getting us to click on their popup loaded weblinks. When you think about it, why would this all be happening now? Why would the Knicks agree to a contract with a new GM before the season even ends and the current GM is still in place? It would seem to me that Isiah would have been fired before any of what we are reading happens. If things are being handled this way is it not just pouring gasoline on an already dysfunctional fire? Have we read even one confirmed fact in all of this? I think not. Mike, could you or someone let us know where things actually stand with all of this? Is Isiah in? Is he out? Will it be decided at the end of the season? Is there no comment from the Knicks on any of this? Indiana denies that there is a contract in place between the NYK and Walsh. Where does that actually stand? The truth has been lost in a sea of rumor and speculation.