Ethics

Isiah Thomas' New Job

By Ed Brayton

Isiah Thomas, not content with ruining one of the greatest franchises in professional basketball, is now going to see if he can ruin a college basketball program. He's decided to take his staggering lack of talent as a coach and talent evaluator and his tendency to sexually harass women and lie to the media to Florida International University, where he will coach the men's basketball team.

Thomas was a great basketball player, one of the greatest players in the history of the game. But since he retired as a player he's shown beyond dispute that the only thing he can run is a pick and roll. He's like the anti-Midas when he's put in charge of anything. I wouldn't hire him to run a Taco Bell; he'd trade a good assistant manager to Wendy's for a terrible fry cook with leprosy and pay the new guy ten times what he's worth.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 16, 2009 (boomark / email).