Isiah Thomas, Moron

If you grew up with the Knicks of Bradley and Frazier and Willis Reed. If you watched the Pistons with Isiah Thomas, you have to wonder how it could come to this. Who in this modern day--post Clarence Thomas, post feminism, post everything--not know where the rules and boundaries are in the office? Men and women (and men and men and women and women) will find each other in the work place and some degree of tension or awkwardness often ensues. But the guy who runs the Exxon station down the street knows where the line is and so does anyone with any common sense. A jury found that Thomas didn't. You could blame it on the coddled world of professional athletes or the legendary sexual exploits of NBA players but that would be unfair. This is Isiah Thomas's problem and also that of the Knicks front office. I suspect the pressure from David Stern, the NBA Commissioner, will be unrelenting here to move Thomas out of the coaching job. Other teams like the luxury tax that James Dolan's Knicks shell out and Dolan doesn't seem likely to dump Thomas easily. But I bet he's not coaching the Knicks in a year.