Stern Steps In to Force MSG Settlement

More than two months after a jury of New Yorkers decided Isiah Thomas is a sexual harasser and Madison Square Garden is a scary place for women to work, David Stern finally stepped into the madness: Bloomberg reports the league "urged" the Knicks to settle with former exec Anucha Browne Sanders, likely cutting the amount to be paid out by MSG but precluding any further appeals.

Here's how the Knicks spun it:

"We don't feel any less strongly than we did throughout the entire episode," said MSG spokesman Bill Cunningham in an e- mailed statement, adding that an accord was urged by NBA Commissioner David Stern. "The outcome was a travesty of justice and we vehemently disagree with the jury's decision."

Folks aren't ordinarily this emboldened when Big Brother tells them to knock it off and stop embarrassing the family. Oh well. MSG could've used this leadership from Secaucus back in September, when a settlement would have circumvented most of this incredibly embarrassing saga. You know, the deposition where Zeke defines who is allowed to call a woman a bitch. And when Stephon Marbury admitted to bedding an intern in the back of his truck. And when Browne Sanders alleged Isiah once told her he doesn't "give a [expletive] about these white people." Heck, maybe fans wouldn't want be chanting for the coach's head every night!

You can't blame Thomas for the extending episode of horror, though. Remember, he wanted to settle before it went to trial. James Dolan needs to have more confidence in his man! Oh. Wait.

Enjoy FanHouse's full coverage of the MSG Legal Disaster.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

12-11-2007 @ 2:59AM

frank said...

The worst team assemble in the NBA with multimillion dollar contracts laughing all the way to the bank NO team in the NBA will offer this players such juice contracts only the knicks this is possible because they have an owner that does not have a clue and the worst coach in the NBA and a racist and between them having a suspicious relationship but they forgat about the NY fans that in a way they paid their salaries but they do not care and the fans do not get respect from this DUO stop going to the knicks games they will get the message LOUD AND CLEAR !