How are you celebrating? I’m popping a bottle of champagne because this almost certainly means Zeke will be a goner. Sure, for the time being Isiah will keep his spot on the bench to make sure we lose 7 of our remaining 8 games and lock up a top-3 pick in the draft, but after that he’s d-u-n, DONE. So don’t go flinging yourself out a window when all the New York papers tell you Isiah’s staying, because he’ll only be here for the duration of his usefulness, and– I never thought I’d say this– but he’s pretty much the perfect coach for us right now. It’d be one thing if he were canceling practices and the players were putting forth zero effort in like say, oh i don’t know, November and December (which happened anyway, but that’s not the point). But with 54 losses already under our belt and Derrick Rose and Mike Beasley ready to lower their schools’ respective graduation rates, why fire Zeke now?
As far as Donnie Walsh goes, I’m still somewhat in Chuck Wipple’s camp when it comes to trusting Bronx Donnie (that’s my mafia name for him until Consiglieri comes up with a better one) with the Knick franchise, but after seeing this stat, I’ve become slightly more optimistic: In Walsh’s 22 years overseeing the franchise as GM, the Pacers made the playoffs 17 times, with six Eastern final berths and one Finals appearance. Alright, so maybe he’s not Jerry West and doesn’t have a luxury box full of Larry O’Brien trophies, but I’ll take 6 conference finals births any day of the week. Heck, that’s 2 more than we have in the last 35 years!!! Plus, who better than a New York guy to bring us our first title in over 3 decades (it’ll be 4 by the time we’re good enough to even entertain the notion as it is)? Either way, today’s a great day… unless you’re a Met fan, of course.
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