Sexual Harassment Suit against Isiah Thomas
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Originally Posted by NY Daily News
Knicks President and basketball legend Isiah Thomas was at the center of a bombshell lawsuit last night after a senior female employee alleged she had been the target of harassment.
Anucha Browne Sanders, the team's former high-profile senior vice president of marketing, filed papers against the hoops great in Manhattan Federal Court yesterday - claiming Thomas called her a "b----" and asked her to have sex.
She said when she refused his advances, the 44-year-old married father replied: "What? I can't get any love today?"
Thomas' legal team immediately branded Browne Sanders an opportunist - charging her complaints followed a failed attempt to extort $6 million. And the lawyers charged she was using Hall of Famer Thomas' standing to aid her case.
"This lawsuit is a blatant attempt by Anucha Browne Sanders to get a large sum of money from Madison Square Garden by taking advantage of the celebrity status of our client," said Thomas' attorneys Peter Parcher and Sue Ellen Eisenberg.
"While still employed, she demanded from the Garden, as a condition of her departure, a payment of $6 million, which is more than 20 years of her salary."
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Originally Posted by New York Times
A former high-level Knicks executive filed a lawsuit yesterday accusing Isiah Thomas, the team's president, of sexual harassment and discrimination, saying he had made unwanted advances, cursed her and barred players from working with her on community events.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan, the executive, Anucha Browne Sanders, said that Thomas refused to stop his actions despite her protests and discomfort, and that her immediate supervisor, Steve Mills, the president of Madison Square Garden Sports, did nothing to intercede on her behalf.
Last Thursday, Browne Sanders was fired as the team's senior vice president for marketing and business operations after an in-house investigation by the Garden found her complaint to be "unsupported."
Browne Sanders, 43, said in a telephone interview yesterday that she had found her dream job with the Knicks, whom she joined in 2000. Now, she said: "I'm outraged at the termination. I feel they've destroyed a stellar sports career."
She named Thomas and the Garden as defendants in the lawsuit, which charges them with two counts of sex discrimination and two counts of retaliation. She is seeking reinstatement and unspecified damages.
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Marvelleous.. this is exactly what the Knicks needed..
Actually this is great news!
This is the best news possible for the future of this team! If this stuff plays out to be true in any way, shape, or form, it could hopefully lead Dolan to fire Isiah! The guy was so eager to run a guy like Sprewell out of town that something like this should drive him nuts. Yeah sure in the short term the organization looks bad, but hey, the organization can't look any worse since they're paying a league high for a team with such a bad record.
I for one hope this lady's claim is found to be true and that Isiah gets fired as a result. Ideally Dolan would be forced to sell too and we'd get a real owner with some sense, but that's of course not going to happen for quite some time.
Re: Actually this is great news!
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Originally Posted by RMK-NYK
This is the best news possible for the future of this team! If this stuff plays out to be true in any way, shape, or form, it could hopefully lead Dolan to fire Isiah! The guy was so eager to run a guy like Sprewell out of town that something like this should drive him nuts. Yeah sure in the short term the organization looks bad, but hey, the organization can't look any worse since they're paying a league high for a team with such a bad record.
I for one hope this lady's claim is found to be true and that Isiah gets fired as a result. Ideally Dolan would be forced to sell too and we'd get a real owner with some sense, but that's of course not going to happen for quite some time.
u must be qrazy to want isiah fired...did u see the knick team that isiah was given and the team he put it into...knicks just need to get some chemsitry and get used to playing wit each other...i believe the knicks are one player away to be an elite team...they need that toughness on D(maybe ron artest) but firing isiah is not the solution
Re: Actually this is great news!
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Originally Posted by datruth
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Originally Posted by RMK-NYK
This is the best news possible for the future of this team! If this stuff plays out to be true in any way, shape, or form, it could hopefully lead Dolan to fire Isiah! The guy was so eager to run a guy like Sprewell out of town that something like this should drive him nuts. Yeah sure in the short term the organization looks bad, but hey, the organization can't look any worse since they're paying a league high for a team with such a bad record.
I for one hope this lady's claim is found to be true and that Isiah gets fired as a result. Ideally Dolan would be forced to sell too and we'd get a real owner with some sense, but that's of course not going to happen for quite some time.
u must be qrazy to want isiah fired...did u see the knick team that isiah was given and the team he put it into...knicks just need to get some chemsitry and get used to playing wit each other...i believe the knicks are one player away to be an elite team...they need that toughness on D(maybe ron artest) but firing isiah is not the solution
I'm crazy to want Isiah fired??? Are you seriously out of your mind? Isiah is honest to god the worst GM in the history of NBA, if not all sports! Since the beginning this guy has had no clue and he actually has this team in a worse situation than when he got here.
Lets see...so in his first few months after being hired, he made the huge trade for Marbury...one that I liked, and initially I was happy. Then the team started on a nice win streak...were playing on a roll...Marbury and Van Horn were running the pick-n-roll to great results and things were going well....what happens? Isiah trades Van Horn off for Tim Thomas and Nazr Mohammed and sited a need to "get younger and more athletic." The team went into a rut not surprisingly. Lets also not forget the pathetic way he fired Don Chaney and had to scramble to bring in Lenny Wilkens...a coach who the game had passed years ago. The season ended with the team limping into the playoffs and being embarassed by the Nets. In that season alone there were a number of questionable moves, but the team made the playoffs and things were looking up.
So from there Isiah decided to make things worse. Then there was the horrendous signing of Vin Baker last off season. Then season starts...Nazr Mohammed finally found some ability and was playing well, and Isiah even sited as much. What happened? Suddenly at the deadline Isiah decides to trade Mohammed and Baker away... (What happened to younger and more athletic??) and added the great Maurice Taylor and Malik Rose and unbelievably enough the man actually ADDED TO PAYROLL in doing so. I mean if you're going to add money, you'd think it'd be for good talent...to do it with these two...ugh.
And I still haven't even mentioned Jerome James, and the horrendous make up of this roster. Granted I think this roster is better than 13 wins, but you can't tell me that when a GM puts together a roster with no SF and no true PG, (combined with all the dumb moves he's made in the past)...that this guy deserves to stay in his job. Lets also not forget that we basically have no significant draft picks for the next few yrs, and we're still capped out.
And ok Isiah supporters will bring up the fact that he's drafted well...yes he has, so lets make him head of scouting. I for one, want a GM here that has a definite plan and knows what he is doing. Isiah took a bad situation and made it worse and I want him gone before he digs the hole even deeper.
