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Witness: Isiah 'couldn't get no love'

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Robert Levy, a lawyer who attended a Knicks practice with a friend, said Isiah Thomas introduced Browne Sanders, then the Knicks' senior vice president for marketing, to a man he believed to be the former NBA guard Micheal Ray Richardson. Levy testified that Thomas said that she was doing a "terrific job," that "it could be very distracting to work next to someone who was so easy on the eyes," and that Thomas "couldn't get any or no love from her." Levy, who specializes in employment law, said Thomas's hand was draped over Browne Sanders's shoulders and "she seemed to be pulling away and had an uncomfortable smile on her face -- if you could call it a smile."

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September 18, 2007  08:39 AM ET

Isiah has Betty Davis eyes

September 18, 2007  08:46 AM ET

Wait did this story say that Anucha Browne-Sanders was "easy on the eyes"? What?? That women is one of the ugliest things I have ever seen.

What??

September 18, 2007  09:12 AM ET

She must have been the only woman in the organization!?!

September 18, 2007  09:29 AM ET

EJ

Often men will do something stupid after a few drinks, and I know you are not an Isiah fan.

Tell me you agree this is Bull!!!!!! This is a joke!

September 18, 2007  09:44 AM ET

What they didn't include in this blurb up here is Isaiah's racist tinge to using the term**** to an African American woman.

Basically he states its ok for him to say it, because he is also African American. But if a white guy said it, oh that is crossing the line in Isaiah's book.

What a classy guy. Glad this guy is running the Knicks.

September 18, 2007  10:16 AM ET

If you've seen some of the trades and signings Isiah made, you can tell he doesn't have good taste...

September 18, 2007  10:19 AM ET

KDawg is right. I heard that his "Code Of Conduct" doesn';t allow white men to call blackwomen****, but it's perfectly acceptable for black men to say it. That was part of his video disposition. Afterwards, to reporters, he said it was bad for everyone to say it.

September 18, 2007  10:26 AM ET

"I want some more of that"

Oh wait, that was Stephon.......

September 18, 2007  10:31 AM ET

I actually do agree with you Liontut. I do think this whole story is ridiculous.

I am an Isiah fan. He goes down as one of the greatest players my eyes have ever seen. I still have a poster of him on my bedroom wall, but as the GM/Coach of the Knicks he gots to go. I know we disagree on the Liontut, and that's cool because opinions are like booty holes, everybody's got one.

September 18, 2007  10:32 AM ET

Isaiah should really just get out of basketball, he is destoying his legacy.

September 18, 2007  10:35 AM ET

and sooo...isiah's ship is sinking.....quickly......


any hot young coaches available?

September 18, 2007  10:44 AM ET

Is it not enough that the Knicks are irrelevant? We need sex scandals to boot? FIRE HIM NOW! His behavior was not only illegal and morally reprehensible, he encouraged others. Do you think "the best point guard on the planet" in his own mind Cancerbury would be walking around MSG sexually harassing women and ordering people around under Riles? The entire operation is a disgrace from Dolan on down. When can we have our team back?

September 18, 2007  10:46 AM ET

how many more of these "slips" is Isaiah allowed before someone just calls him an idiot with NO managerial or interpersonal skills and realizes he's not even CLOSE to an assett for anyone? What function does this guy even serve? A great player, granted, but really............who thought he'd make a good front office guy? He obviously can't coach, he can't run a team and he obviously still thinks the business world is a locker room complete with the bad jokes, the bad taste and the little guy in the corner that laughs at everything he says because he's envious. Zeke, you're making a mockery of everything you did ON the court. Why hasn't someone told him this yet?

September 18, 2007  10:52 AM ET

Question: What is the "word" he finds acceptable for him to use, but not white men (it keeps getting censored)?
Does it, by any chance, start w/ a "b" and rhyme with "witch?"

"BEE-ATCH!!!"

September 18, 2007  11:00 AM ET

Isiah did not say it was okay for black man to call black women the "B" word. I am sorry you low IQ people concluded that!!!!!!

What Isiah said was he would find it more offensive if a white man said it to a black woman.

I am not Jewish. Therefore, if you call me something offensive to Jews, I would only be mad because I know you are trying to insult me. I would not take in the same as I Jewish person.

The biggest racist is the person who doesn???t believe there is a problem. Isiah was truthful. There is not a black man in the country that would allow a black woman to be called a "B" from a white man. Yet, you could walk away if it was a Black man.

If you are Black you can make a song and say ???B???s??? and ???H???s??? all you want. Try that being White!!!

September 18, 2007  11:36 AM ET

EJ:

Wait a minute, let me get this right?

You STILL have a poster of Isaiah on your bedroom wall?? Ok, now that's scary. Analyzing this i come to two conclusions. Either you are still living in the same bedroom you grew up in (which means your like 40 still livin wit mommy) or, there's an alternative; Your decorating scheme in your bedroom hasn't changed in 20 years. Which also leads me to believe that if the latter is true, then you must not have a woman, cause no woman i know is going for that!

September 18, 2007  12:03 PM ET

I still live at home but I'm 25.

September 18, 2007  12:06 PM ET

I got me a woman too. I go to her place.

September 18, 2007  12:09 PM ET

I got the poster from my 3rd grade teacher who noticed I always came to school with a Detroit Pistons hat. I was actually a Laker fan but I liked the hat because it was neon green. My teacher was a big Pistons fan and she bought me the poster. It was back in 1988.

 
September 18, 2007  12:21 PM ET

i need to see a picture of that lady, someone please post a picture.

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