Fixing The Knicks

For the past several years, the New York Knicks have been an embarrassment to the NBA. This is because of the mess Hall of Fame Piston Guard Isaiah Thomas has made of the Knicks, during his time as GM and Head Coach. In a little over 4 short years, Isaiah Thomas has managed to turn this once respected franchise, into the laughing stock of the NBA. In an attempt to guide the Knicks to a title, Thomas completed trade after trade for overpaid, overrated, and unproven NBA players. Players like Stephon Marbury, Eddy Curry, Zach Randolph, Jamal Crawford, Quentin Richardson, Malik Rose, and Steve Francis. He also managed to sign problematic Jerome James to a 5 year 30 million dollar contract, which was based off his mediocre play in the 04-05 playoffs with the Seattle Supersonics. In his 2 1/2 years with the Knicks he has only appeared in 86 out of a possible 164 games. He has yet to play 1 minute in the 07-08 season. Isaiah also signed Jared Jefferies, an athletic, but unproven combo forward to another 5 year 30+ million dollar contract. To go along with all the bad trades and free-agent signings he has made, he also managed to trade away the teams 05 and 06 first round draft picks. Both of which ended up being lottery picks in drafts that could have helped the Knicks. Now, I am not saying every player Isaiah Thomas has picked up is worthless. The majority of them are, but there are still a few players who the Knicks should be molding there future around. Players like David Lee, who is a hard worker, and a fan favorite. He was also one of the first players in a very long time to average a double double, while being a bench player. Other players include, Nate Robinson, a fiery 5'8 scoring point guard who provides tons of energy off the bench. Renaldo Balkman, a very good, very young, defensive minded player, who rebounds the ball extremely well for his size. Zach Randolph and Jamal Crawford also aren't bad assets to the team, but Isaiah has to decide who he wants in his back court and front court. Marbury or Crawford? Randolph or Curry? Those 4 players are to similar to all have on the same team. Marbury and Crawford are both ineffective players if the ball is not in their hands. Curry and Randolph are both great post players. However, having them both in your front court is just a recipe for disaster since each of them are large enough to cover the entire key by themselves. I say dump Marbury for whatever they can get, and trade Curry for a solid, young, play making point guard, who can create shots for Crawford, Lee, and Randolph. Once Knicks owner, James Dolan, starts to realize that Isaiah is running this team straight to hell, hopefully he will bring in new staff that can begin a repairing process of the New York Knicks. For the Knicks future to be better, Isaiah cannot be in the picture. Players need to be bought out and traded. Draft picks and expiring contracts need to be acquired. Skilled player developers and experienced coaches need to be hired. This will all take time, but Dolan has the money and the power to make it happen soon. All we need to hear is three words. "Isaiah, you're fired!"