Extra! Extra! Isiah Thomas idiotic GM!

Isiah Thomas is an idiot. Not just that he ain't afraid to call a bitch a bitch, knows a ho from a ho, and don't give a fuck about no white people. But the league's most brainless GM just continues to get it wrong. After earning plenty of misguided plaudits for his early-draft-night trade of Steve Francis and Channing Frye for Zach Randolph, Dan Dickau, and Fred Jones, Isiah's moves thereafter have been indefensible.

In the second round of this year's draft, Thomas made another deal with Portland; acquiring 53rd-overall selection Demetris Nichols from the Blazers for a 2008 second-rounder. Aside from the fact that Nichols —a jump-shooting, skinny small-forward— seemed to duplicate the skill-set of the Knicks' first-rounder Wilson Chandler —a jump-shooting, skinny small-forward— nearly exactly, the trade was curious for the fact that the Knicks had roughly 20 players, nine of them small-forwards, on the roster at the time.

It seems that, in hindsight, Thomas was hoping to convince Nichols to go spend a year or so playing in Europe, where he could develop at the cost of another organisation; returning when, the hope goes, New York's logjam of a roster had cleared up. Only Nichols had the temerity to show up, trying to earn the roster spot Isiah wasn't holding open for him.

Even though, at that point, the roster seemed overloaded, Thomas wouldn't stop tinkering. On September 30, on the eve of training camp, he acquired rookie point-guard Jared Jordan —a pass-first, pasty-skinned point guard— from the Clippers for cash considerations. This came after the Knicks had bought out the remainder of the contract of Dan Dickau —a pass-first, pasty-skinned point guard— who would then turn around and sign with, uh, the Clippers.

This sort-of-trade of whiteboy PGs clearly confused Zeke; as, on October 15, after a Knicks practice, he said: "I think Dickau is going to be a good player on our team when he's healthy"; even though Dickau never even made it training camp. Damn those crackers, my nigga. They all look the same.

Having given up cash for Jordan, and next year's second rounder for Nichols, you'd imagine that both guys would've ended up on the final 15-man roster. Sure, they'd spend all year in the NBDL, most likely, but it's always nice to develop young guys. And yet, both youngsters were cut. Free to go elsewhere. Unwanted by the Knicks.

Remaining on the roster, however, is one Jerome James. Since being inked up by —who else?— one Isiah Thomas, the colossal free-agent bust has only been notable for one thing: averaging 12.8 fouls per 48 minutes. Last year, in his few fleeting appearances for the Knicks, the morbidly-obese, 7'3 behemoth committed 73 fouls whilst scoring just 76 points; hitting 41.8% from the floor despite his close proximity to the basket. Though he may've had a few mediocre 5-and-4 type years in Seattle, James is clearly done. Forever injured, rarely motivated, raking in an obscene amount of money, and soon to turn 32 years old, James should've been a camp casualty.

Maybe James wouldn't have left for anything less than the $18mil still left on his three remaining years, but, given the Knicks are already shelling out obscene amounts of money to pay for overpaid players past and present and/or sexually-harrassed former employees, couldn't this cash've been rustled up from the seemingly unending Dolan coffers? Wouldn't it have been good karma/PR/chemistry to lose the fat loser, and give a likely kid a chance?

If it were just a matter of money, that kind of feigned 'accountability' is a sham. We've all witnessed how little Isiah has been held accountable for his past string of blown trades, bad contracts, and cap-crippling roster management. Not to mention his apparent complete disregard for human decency. He surely isn't being held accountable for wasting a possibly-pretty-decent second-rounder and 'cash considerations' just to bring in two guys who always seemed on the outside of the numbers game looking in, and didn't even make the roster. And, still, Thomas isn't being held accountable for being a complete and utter idiot.