9-14-07 Rumors
Sep 14th, 2007 by ToddAllen
Forget about watching Greg Oden this year, poor guy can’t stay healthy. The AP reports, via the Chicago Tribune: “Earlier in the day, the former Indiana high school star and No. 1 pick in the June draft went in for an exploratory procedure on his right knee and ended up having microfracture surgery, which means he will sit out the season.”
The Knicks sexual harrassment case takes a Clintonian turn, as the New York Times reports: “Stephon Marbury, the Knicks’ star guard, testified in federal court yesterday that he had sex with an intern for the team after a group outing to a strip club in 2005. The intern worked for Anucha Browne Sanders, who is suing Isiah Thomas, the team’s coach and president, for sexual harassment. ”
The New York Daily News has another tabloid-esque tibit from the trial as Sanders makes some allegations about the Rangers exec’s: “The fired Knicks honcho claims she told her Madison Square Garden bosses in 2005 that members of the Rangers’ front office were keeping a Kama Sutra wish list they would like to try out on members of the team’s on-ice cheerleading troupe, her lawyer says. ”
Allan Houston to pull a reverse-Mutombo? The NY Daily News reports: “Though Houston has received invitations from several teams to attend training camp, he is seriously weighing the Nets’ offer.”
Then again, the NJ Star Ledger has Houston’s agent saying the opposite – “Let’s be realistic,” Bill Strickland said last night. “Given his tenure with the Knicks — and this is me speaking, not Allan — I would think they had a slight advantage over any and every team, given his history with the team.”
Harris is staying put in Dallas, as the AP, via Candian Press Reports: “The Dallas Mavericks and Devin Harris have agreed on a five-year contract extension worth roughly US$42 million, locking up the speedy point guard through the 2012-13 season.”
Forget about seeing Charlie Bell back with the Bucks. The Racine Journal Times reports “According to Mark Bartelstein, Bell’s agent, Bell has made the decision not to accept the Bucks’ multi-year offer or qualifying offer for one year.”
Real Knick fans deserve better than this
OK first lets get this out of the way .. Everyone, Please treat your female employees with the appropriate degree of respect!! There thats done, now a little advise for my NY Knicks executives ..please develop a sreening tool that will help you recognize power hungry bitter employees with inferiority complexes and P—– envy. As a real knick fan having to endure the unwelcomed scrutiny of most of my peers who support other teams who have been winning of late, I do not appreciate the losing or the atmosphere which currently exists to futher facilitate it. The embarrasment of being a real fan of the Knicks has grow to new propotions with these accusations regarding sexual harassments and player behavior which as a fan for over twenty years, I refuse to quantify as a pattern. Call me a homer but i cannot turn my back on my Knicks at a time when as a fan they need me the most. Please lets not rush to pass judgement. I understand clearly what is wrong here … but lets remember its her word against knicks management. By the way, there are also reports that coach Jeff Van Gundy has had run ins with this same accuser and her apparent issues of job role ambiguity. Excluding James Dolan, these are altheles acting as executives. Competition, ego, and ambition(sometimes blind) consume the accuser the accused and the player. Truthfully like most of us I just want to see winning basketball. Regarding the player (no indicment…real Knick fan remember) Dennis Rodman was an idiot who embarrassed himself the teams he worked for and most male sports fans .. but he was still tolerated because he was a piece that helped his teams win. I wish for complete resolution and exoneration of my Knicks team president and coach. He was my favorite player as a youth, a player coached by Bobby knight, (anyone prejudiced against white people could never have tolerated his methods for four years). I nonetheless find this scandle appalling and am reluctantly preparing to fend off the negative residue of these events that will exist regardless of the outcome.
Real Knick fans deserve better than this.