Isiah Thomas Might Take Over The Clippers
NBA February 5th. 2010, 4:30pmIsiah Thomas could replace Mike Dunleavy. The Isiah Thomas. Seriously. According to Jeff Goodman of FOX Sports, the Clippers have reached out to Thomas about becoming the coach, GM and team president.
I honestly don’t know what else to add.
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February 5th, 2010 at 4:34 PM
I thought Starling didn’t like the blacks?
February 5th, 2010 at 4:35 PM
….and this is why the lowly teams continue to stay lowly over time.
ISIAH FREAKIN THOMAS???
Clearly they thought he did a good job with the Knicks.
February 5th, 2010 at 4:36 PM
Has anyone gotten Bill Simmons reaction?
February 5th, 2010 at 4:37 PM
They need a Rooney Rule for the NBA where if Isiah interviews for ANY position, you have to interview another person of ANY color and hire him immediately instead of Isiah
February 5th, 2010 at 4:38 PM
Simmons is on board. Thomas is down with The Secret.
February 5th, 2010 at 4:38 PM
This isn’t about Zach, but makes me laugh all the time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PP4RT-vv-o
“He has small hands he cannot palm the ball, he has bad feet, he cannot movehe can pu, doesn’t have a post move t to memory and use two times in a row!”
February 5th, 2010 at 4:39 PM
Jeff Goodman with the scoop?
February 5th, 2010 at 4:40 PM
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
February 5th, 2010 at 4:41 PM
The savvy Donald Sterling also considering faxing a piece of shit to himself.
February 5th, 2010 at 4:42 PM
Wow. It’s like they’re trying to break the all time record for “suck”, currently held by a black hole. It’s the perfect storm of basketball ineptitude. The apocalypse may be at hand. This would suck so much not even light will be able to escape.
February 5th, 2010 at 4:44 PM
Seriously, this sounds like one really bad April’s Fools Joke
February 5th, 2010 at 4:45 PM
L.
O.
L.
Holy Christ, there was a person who thought Isiah did a good job with the Knicks?! Jesus, has Sterling SEEN the franchise? Has he read any reports about Thomas? Has he read any articles about how he fucked up the Knicks?!
February 5th, 2010 at 4:46 PM
The only way this could conceivably be true is Donald Sterling lost big at one of those secret billionaire poker games.
In unrelated news I just heard Bernard Hopkins on local radio argue that no one in Philly will play for McNabb, or has played for McNabb for years. The reason why? McNabb stopped running because he wanted to prove he wasn’t black.
February 5th, 2010 at 4:46 PM
Has anyone gotten Frankie Muniz’s reaction?
February 5th, 2010 at 4:47 PM
Holy Christ, there was a person who thought Isiah did a good job with the Knicks?!
Well compared to the Clippers, Isiah looks like Jerry West.
February 5th, 2010 at 4:48 PM
he let elgin baylor stay there for 75 years so this really is no surprise
February 5th, 2010 at 4:48 PM
Is there going to be a Kiffin-like outcry when Isiah leaves leaves those poor Bumfuck Florida school kids in the lurch after only one season.
/this isn’t really happening
February 5th, 2010 at 4:49 PM
If they get Isiah they should just do Blake Griffin a favor and make him overdose or something. Isiah can’t do shit besides draft.
February 5th, 2010 at 4:50 PM
I wonder how they are going to explain this one in the press conference. I really hope someone questions Sterling’s intelligence for doing this.
February 5th, 2010 at 4:50 PM
jamarcus russell tries to use that excuse but we know its because hes too fat
February 5th, 2010 at 4:54 PM
JaMarcus just ate Shane Lechler.
February 5th, 2010 at 4:56 PM
What about Billy Crystals reaction?
February 5th, 2010 at 4:58 PM
Seriously if they hire Thomas they deserve to lose every game. It’s not even just that he got a bum rap due to injuries or anything; dude can’t coach, trade well or take them blame.
February 5th, 2010 at 5:00 PM
everyone is taking a dump on jamarcus. i wonder if he uses this as motivation
/no he wont. he got his money
February 5th, 2010 at 5:04 PM
What about Billy Crystals reaction?
Poor Billy
February 5th, 2010 at 5:13 PM
The Clippers are now issuing a denial.
February 5th, 2010 at 6:07 PM
This would be a 100 out of 100 on the hilarious scale… I’m pretty sure Clippers fans will burn the arena to the ground if it actually happens. How much more can they take?
February 5th, 2010 at 7:45 PM
Apparently Red Klotz is unavailable.
February 5th, 2010 at 8:27 PM
Okay, how much do you want to bet that this story is B.S.?
February 6th, 2010 at 5:56 AM
Dude gets the Norv Turner award for continuously getting gigs with absolutely zero production.
February 6th, 2010 at 8:36 AM
I bet this is Sterling trying to prove that he isn’t racist. Has his lawsuit with Baylor been settled? Or did it ever go to court?
You really hope someone questions Sterling for doing this? Are you F’ing kidding? You hope? The guy has been questioned for every move since he has owned the team. You guy is considred the worst owner perhaps in the history of sports. And you hope the guy would get questioned over this?
The internet clearly works on Mars now.
February 6th, 2010 at 8:41 AM
Let me know when Isiah wins the equivalent of 12 NFL games doing whatever it is that he is doing.
Norv Turner gets picked on a lot but come on, Isiah? Isiah is the Browns or Rams, not the Chargers. Norv would be perhaps the best assistant coach in the NFL. Could Isiah do the same in the NBA? He sure hasn’t proven to be anything but dreadful with anything he touches. To be fair I don’t know how his college season is going.
February 6th, 2010 at 8:56 AM
Turner’s career average as a head coach is .473 — 8 games under .500… he inherited a Charger team from Schottenheimer that notched a franchise best 14 wins — Turner’s teams have never won that many games. He is a .500 post season coach — but most importantly has taken a team to the big show.
February 6th, 2010 at 8:59 AM
btw, Isiah Thomas’ career coaching record in the NBA is a remarkably similar .456.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:05 AM
also, in analyzing Turner’s underwhelming career coaching record of 90W-98L-1T, that 32 of those 90 wins came from the inhereted Chargers (over 30% of his win total). Consider his Oakland Raiders coaching record of a dismal 9-23 (.281). His last season with the Raiders they finished 4th in the AFC West with a record of 4-12 and yet waltzed into the head coaching position at San Diego the next year… prior to his coaching train wreck at Oakland, he was 49-59-1 at Washington.
Come on, the dude has led a charmed life given his total lack of accomplishments.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:34 AM
I’m not sticking up for Norv Turner. I’m sticking up for Norv Turner in a debate vs. Isiah Thomas.
But if you really want to get into this, I’m game.
The Redskins team Turner took over was 4-12 the year before he got there. It should surprise no one that they had a couple of losing seasons after Norv got there. That is usually how it works in the NFL. The team he took over, stunk. After those two losing seasons the Redskins, under turner were above .500 for 4 of his final 5 seasons.
The 2003 Raiders, the year before Norv got there were 4-12. They certainly didn’t get worse when they won 5 games with Norv the next year. Did they?
So let me see if I have this right. When Norv takes over good teams and continues to be pretty good, it was because someone else was their coach before, but when he takes over horrid teams and they don’t improve overnight, it is all Norv Turners fault for being a baffoon?
The guy has coached in two pretty bad situations out of his 3 jobs. But as soon as he coaches a good team, its the work he did with the Raiders that we are going to examine?
This guy is better at what he does than Isiah Thomas and he can always fall back on being perhaps the leagues best offensive assistant. Isiah can always fall back on being Isiah Thomas, whatever that means.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:05 AM
I’m no fan of Isiah. And I don’t think Turner is the worst coach. I was being a bit harsh on Turner I have to admit, but maybe that’s because I am a long suffering fan of the Skins – so I’ll admit bias — but I’m sticking to my guns when I say that Turner is way overrated considering the jobs he keeps getting.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:21 AM
Well I think he is getting hired for the same reason as everyone else. He keeps proving himself as a top assistant. It almost seems like a rule that even if it doesn’t help your team you are required to keep hiring these guys so they can’t help other teams doing what they do best, which is assist.
I have a great deal of respect for Norv as an assistant and would do anything to have him come back to the 49ers as OC.
But I’m not sure I totally agree that he keeps getting marquee jobs. The Redskins have tried everyone, the Raiders coach is/was Tom Cable for crying out loud. A guy who probably wouldn’t make it through a high school season as HC. The Chargers gig was surprising but after butting heads with Marty I think AJ Smith just wanted a guy who would coach and that is probably what he has in Norv.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:41 AM
Brother, there are only 32 National Football franchises. Any head coaching gig is a marquee job. Now add to that a franchise that is a perennial division leader with probowl talent at the skill positions. Add to that you are in possibly the best city in the US — sun, surf, sand and minimal media pressure. If I were a head coach and could take any job, San Diego would be at the top of my list.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:23 AM
I hear that and there is a reason I mentioned the Washington job and the Oakland job.
I’m just saying, break it down and within the NFL the two stops he made prior to SD were not marquee, especially not Oakland. The Redskins gig should be better than it is but since Gibbs left the first time nobody has done well, have they?
The Skins have one 10 win season under a coach not named Joe Gibbs in the last 30 years. Norv Turner was that coach. Jim Caldwell walked into a marquee job. Until SD Turner was in two grave yards who had a US Congressmen as his first QB.
February 6th, 2010 at 3:21 PM
I bet Isiah floated this B.S. story while talking to the author at Red Lobster 2 days ago.