On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:36:31 GMT, Anon A Mus <Anon@anonimous.com>
wrote:
>June 2, 2006
>
>NOBODY loves me. Everybody hates me. I think I'll go in the Garden,
>and dig up worms.
>First you cut their heads off. Then you suck the goo out.
>
>Then you throw the skins away.
>
>Nobody in our Hollis, Queens, cub-den of denigration was allowed to
>feel sorry for himself for more than a mil-a-moment. As soon as
>someone started sniveling for sympathy, the rest of us would croon our
>favorite little nursery rhyme.
>
>Since I've been unwilling to tear myself away long enough from the
>mesmeric NBA playoffs to attend Larry Brown's regularly scheduled,
>roadside rendezvous with the gang of Knicks' roving reporters, I'd
>like to take this occasion to sing him a couple of choruses.
>
>Here is a man who has earned countless millions of dollars while
>coaching countless millions of teams over the past three decades; a
>man who has high-tailed it out of millions of towns and left Lurch in
>a lurch; a man who has sent out resumes apropos his next payday on his
>employer-for-that-moment's stationery; a man who has brokered buyouts
>or bye-bye outs en route to conjuring up another paradise to kiss
>goodbye.
>
>Yet here he is crying on the hard shoulder on a daily basis and
>portraying himself as a victim.
>
>And getting away with it!
>
>I guess the gang of roving reporters is so relieved the Greenburgh
>police haven't made any arrests and pleased as punch the Knicks'
>outgoing coach is granting drive-by interviews he's allowed to
>represent any way he wants.
>
>"I feel like a dead man walking," Brown whimpered the other day down
>the road a piece from the "rim of silence" at the Knicks' Special
>Victims' Westchester Unit.
>
>Between that training facility and headquarters at 2 Penn Plaza, in
>the wake of owners James Dolan and Steve Mills putting team president
>Isiah Thomas in charge of the Knicks asylum, already there are enough
>casualties piled up for several seasons' worth of episodes. Off the
>top, I can name Brendan & Michael Malone, Scott Layden, Anucha
>Brown-Sanders, Shandon Anderson, Frank Murphy, Joe Favorito, Mike
>McCarthy, Don Chaney, Mike Saunders, Jeff Nix, Dick Helm, Lenny
>Wilkens, Willis Reed and Dr. Norman Scott, with many more real and
>imagined martyrs to be fingered later.
>
>It's being banished to Limbo that's buggin' out Brown more than
>anything. Because not a single superior has told him not to believe
>what he's read in the papers regarding his inescapable eviction, he
>knows his days are numbered.
>
>It's also making Brown crazier than usual that he isn't being loved
>unconditionally by his bosses. He never has handled the most minor
>rejection from players and the media all that well, and this
>conspiratorial cold shoulder by the organization's hierarchy far
>out-distances any of that.
>
>Does Thomas deserve to be fired for creating a capsized, 23-win
>monstrosity and a polluted atmosphere throughout the Garden where
>paranoia and job insecurity run amuck?
>
>As Shaquille O'Neal would say, "Don't even ask such a dumb question!"
>
>But Brown deserves worse punishment for demonstrating abject
>disloyalty to the person responsible for furnishing him with his
>"dream job" and establishing him as the highest-paid coach ($55
>million for five years) in NBA history.
>
>From almost the split second training camp opened in Charleston, S.C.,
>Brown complained about the roster Thomas had provided. Almost the
>first words out of his mouth once the season began were pot-shots
>taken at Stephon Marbury.
>
>It's not as if Brown was clueless about the roster he inherited. It's
>not as if he thought the players remotely resembled the
>championship-caliber ones he guided to the NBA Finals two straight
>seasons in Detroit. It's not as if he could fake surprise when his
>Knicks didn't perform like the regal role players he assembled in
>Philly to surround Allen Iverson.
>
>The more Brown sounded off, the more misfits Thomas added to his
>puzzling puzzle.
>
>In four decades of scrutiny, I've found Brown can be remarkably loyal
>and disloyal, as well as neurotically generous and disingenuous. In
>most cases, I'm convinced he can't help himself from acting one way or
>the other.
>
>Only this time, before the Knicks pay him X amount to vanish, he's
>going to pay big time, too, for throwing Thomas on the third rail.
>Though one might suspect the blather coming from Brown's newly
>repaired bladder might be mollified once he's cut ($40 million) or the
>two sides cut a deal ($25 million?).
>
>There's certainly no rush to see Brown stop squirming. Thomas has been
>waiting all year to get even. It's not as if the Knicks have to worry
>about hiring someone before another team does. Brown's replacement is
>the team president. Thomas is banking on Brown blinking before the
>other available jobs get taken and leave him with nothing.
>
>Personally, I have my fingers crossed the Knicks and Brown remain an
>item - and not just because I'm a hopeless romantic. To me, Camp
>Cablevision and Brown are the perfect pairing: The former is stealing
>money from its customers while the latter is stealing money from the
>former.
LOL
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