Bigger Isn’t Always Better, Just Ask Isiah Thomas

By Bethlehem Shoals
Picking on the Knicks is getting really old. But when things get really weird over at Madison Square Garden, a man’s got to pay attention.
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To recap, the league has decided once again that big is beautiful. The Suns traded for Shaq. The Lakers got Gasol. In Kurt Thomas, the Spurs added veteran size. The Jason Kidd deal is drawing jeers because the Mavs gave up DeSagana Diop. These facts are non-negotiable.
Good thing that Isiah Thomas knows better. As The Post reminds us, Isiah “chains [Eddy] Curry to the bench, has stated for nearly two weeks now the NBA is changing to a ‘small man’s game.’” This while, against the Raptors last night, Primoz Brezec and Rasho Nesterovic both lit up the Knicks for double-figures.
This has Curry “boiling,” He bickers with teammates, sometimes with water involved, and last night bared his soul to reporters. The placard-ready quotes: “The losing is killing me” and “I’m not going to change who I am.”
What’s so perplexing here is that Isiah Thomas doesn’t think of the Knicks as a poorly-constructed, largely irrelevant disaster who should be content with whatever mediocrity they can muster. No, Isiah sees himself as being on the cutting edge of NBA thinking. His decisions resonate throughout the league in the same way as those by Steve Kerr or R.C. Buford. This man and his team matter, and if the league is changing at the top, well darn it, down at the bottom he’ll make sure he’s with it.
I don’t know what’s funnier here: That Thomas seems more concerned with being fashionable than winning, or that he’s about one year off on NBA trends.↵