Here we have a grainy image of interim New York Knicks head coach Mike Woodson and former Knicks GM Isiah Thomas having dinner with their wives at an Italian restaurant. Woodson and Zeke have a long friendship and were teammates at Indiana University. The visual implies nothing. But it is grainy which is in and of itself suspicious.

Is James Dolan wiretapping under the table? Did they order a bottle of red or a bottle of white? What kind of mood are they in tonight? Reports suggest someone at the table mentioned basketball (and Nieman Marcus).

The only thing this picture proves is that you can’t see Mike Woodson’s perfect goatee from the back of his perfectly bald head. Or is the picture just too grainy to tell?

Very suspicious.

Pass, pass, pass.

(O&A)

NBA CROSSOVER STORY:

Isiah Thomas stopped by Flushing Meadows today to cheer on James Blake in his third-round U.S. Open match.

Given the reverse-rabbit’s-foot effect of the Isiah Thomas endorsement, it is no surprise that Blake lost.

(Sean Keane)

An Imaginary Conversation With Bill Laimbeer and Isiah Thomas

Bill: Look at us, Zeke. We’re bad dudes doing bad things. Hanging out in this bad ass log cabin.
Isiah: Wearing this bad ass fur coat.
Bill: Me and my extra blue bad boy jeans. The color is actually “bad ass blue”. Check the inseam.
Isiah: No thanks. Either way I can’t even tell cause I got my bad boy shades on.
Bill: Yep, we’re some bad boys.
Isiah: Bad bros 4 life!
Bill: Totally bad!
Isiah: The complete opposite of how bad we are would be like if you coached a WOMEN’S basketball league 10 years from now and then became an assistant to Kurt Rambis on a mediocre team!
Bill: Ha! Yeah it’d be like you 10 years from now, taking the place of Larry Bird as coach of a team he led to the finals…and then you not even making it past the first round the three seasons you’re there!
Isiah: Haha, yeah!
Bill: It’d be like you going to another equally coveted NBA franchise, except for a much longer period of time, then spending way too much money on all the wrong players…
Isiah: OK I get it Bill…
Bill: It’d be like you getting a sexual harassment lawsuit, then tieing that team’s franchise worst record EVER…
Isiah: Whoa, hey that’s a little specifi—
Bill: …and then getting fired that same season leaving you pretty much blackisted from the NBA!
Isiah: Heh. Wait…you don’t think that’ll really happen to either of us…do you?
Bill: Nah man, we’re bad boys! You’re Mike Lowerrrrry!
Isiah: Wait this is the 80’s, who’s Mike Lowery?

via thegrandarchives

via Coach_D_Antoni <—fake but often hilarious twitter

Great read over at CNNSI.com about the blowup between Isiah Thomas and Magic Johnson over Magic’s upcoming book “When the Game Was Ours.” In it, Magic accuses Isiah of questioning his sexuality. There’s also this gem:

“Isiah killed his own chances when it came to the Olympics. Nobody on that team wanted to play with him. … Michael didn’t want to play with him. Scottie [Pippen] wanted no part of him. Bird wasn’t pushing for him. Karl Malone didn’t want him. Who was saying, ‘We need this guy?’ Nobody.”