Sports of The Times: âFire Isiahâ? Not Everyone Is in Agreement
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Some fans have made Isiah Thomasâs ouster a crusade; a smaller number have made his firing a silly indulgence.
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It often seems as if Ron Artest cannot help being at the center of a storm.
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Funny thing about pro sports. One team&#39;s mess is another team&#39;s messiah. In Toronto last week, the Vince Carter era came to a close, and not a minute too soon.
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Americans in general and American NBA fans in particular will never, ever understand the frenzy that drives the league's international players to play for their national teams in the offseason. As one NBA official put it last week, the ongoing European Championships in Spain are a bigger deal to many of the players in the tournament than the Olympics. And ...
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Republic sports columnist Paola Boivin sounds like she is too close to the NBA players. It is not the fans, Paola. Of course, the behavior of the fans in Detroit was inexcusable, but Ron Artest is given one directive from the NBA: Do not enter the stands.
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Outside Madison Square Garden, a small group of Knicks fans voiced their dissatisfaction with the teamâs coach, Isiah Thomas. Inside the arena, that message can get one ejected.
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., Jan. 4 - Some players seem destined to make a statement in big games, and some seem to shy from the moment.
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Thatâs Tracy McGradyâs answer to questions about whether or not he will look to keep his scoring up despite joining Houston and Yao Ming.
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It is a strange time in baseball. The announcement of Hall of Fame voting is due today, and the issue of performance-enhancing drugs was part of the thought process for voters in determining which of the boxes they checked off. Perhaps it wasn't quite as important as statistics and performance accolades, but, unfortunately, these are the times we live in ...
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It's different now. There are people who claim to be members of Red Sox Nation who have no idea that Bucky Dent's middle name is Bleeping. There are people under pink hats wearing PEDROIA jerseys who think Big Papi, not Ted Williams, is the greatest hitter who ever lived. They don't know that there was a guy named ...
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Isiah Thomas believes Jared Jeffries adds something more important than size and athleticism to the New York Knicks.
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They are the biggest story in the NBA but not the dominant sports topic in their own hometown.
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Make no mistake about it. Ron Artest of the Indiana Pacers was to blame for the ugly fans-players brawl at The Palace. That&#39;s not to give the dumb fan who threw a cup of beer
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If you take Isiah Thomas at his word and believe he&#39;s not trading Allan Houston before the February deadline, then the Knicks have to hope that Houston-Jamal Crawford-Stephon Marbury isn&#39;t the second coming of Houston-Latrell Sprewell-Glen Rice.
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To hear Larry Hughes tell it, the fans in Washington are a bit confused about which basketball team holds their interest. &quot;It&#39;s always talked-about now.
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It makes no sense for so many Americans to be angry with basketball star Ron Artest, a man whose approach to life and professional sports epitomizes the new American philosophy of self-defense, defiance and pre-emption.
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For Isiah Thomas, the state of Indiana provided a stage to prove his greatness. For Jared Jeffries, it was a place to grow. The Knicks begin the next phase of their season in Indiana on Friday.