Hooped Up

So not only has Zeke been fired from the Knicks / reassigned as an “advisor” but, Donnie Walsh has asked him to not speak with the players.   The reasoning behind this is that Isiah might influence to players in some way about the new coach coming in.

Former New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas has been banned from having any contact with members of the team as part of his reassignment agreement with team president Donnie Walsh, the New York Daily News reported, citing a team source.

Walsh, who replaced Thomas as the Knicks’ president, fired him as coach last week after Thomas went 56-108 leading the team, including this season’s 23-59 disaster, the franchise’s seventh straight losing season. He has been reassigned as an advisor to the team.

According to the report, there is concern that Thomas, if allowed to have any contact with the team, could either willingly or unwillingly undermine its new coach. Thomas acquired all the players on the current Knicks roster as team president.

But the agreement does not prohibit Thomas from speaking to Madison Square Garden chairman James Dolan, according to the report.

ESPN

News flash Knicks management! Isiah can even influence his team to not stink and the players stopped listening to him months and months ago!