The Nuclear Option: Isiah

by MichaelCage on Mar 26, 2009 1:02 AM PDT

Ok, so I'm just reading the Isiah GM rumors and I'm shocked beyond words. If this were to happen, then I'm done with this franchise. Never mind renewing season tickets, I will never watch another Clippers game again. As a matter of fact, I will be tempted to put my fist through every TV screen showing a Clippers game.

Is this Dunleavy's ruse to freak out the fans and remind us that there are worst alternatives than him? After all, the articles seem to suggest that it was Dunleavy who set up the meeting between Isiah and Sterling. Perhaps all of us have underestimated Dunleavy. Perhaps he is much more than inept, he might be one of those rare, truly evil men (Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot) who plans nefarious deeds for the satisfaction of seeing everything burn, wither, and die. Ok, maybe he's not that evil, but he's at least on par with Manson or Charles Starkweather.

At any rate, bringing in Isiah is the equivalent of calling in a nuclear strike on your own position. The devastation would be total and there won't be a soul left standing. With a franchise as moribound as the Clippers, this can be construed as a good thing, I suppose.

We Clippers fans are gluttons for punishment. We've taken alot over the years. But this might be the greatest indignity of all. It just might be the final fatal blow.

Poll

Should we bring on Isiah and burn the Clippers house down?

Hell yeah, bring on Isiah. Let's watch the fireworks. I will renew my tickets to witness the calamity first hand.

18 votes

Errr...I would rather have Dunleavy as coach, GM, and dictator for life.

17 votes

Neither Zeke nor Dunce, we need the real deal...can we offer Osama or Al-Zawahiri a contract?

28 votes

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New Game: Interview Questions with Stirling

So Zeke, how do you like to sexually harrass your women?

by sqrebck on Mar 26, 2009 8:25 AM PDT reply actions

If I hire you can I refer to you as my “Black Friend”? Elgin no longer speaks to me.

by sqrebck on Mar 26, 2009 8:28 AM PDT up reply actions

So you worked for the hmmmm, Knicks? What city is that in?

by sqrebck on Mar 26, 2009 9:46 AM PDT up reply actions

:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdNDdXP6bM8

"This kid is the best new talent in the league right now, and I don't care who else you mention." -Suns Coach, Alvin Gentry, on Clippers rookie sensation, Eric Gordon.

by cliptakular on Mar 26, 2009 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions

Also

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIUu8Afs_vE&feature=related

lol

"This kid is the best new talent in the league right now, and I don't care who else you mention." -Suns Coach, Alvin Gentry, on Clippers rookie sensation, Eric Gordon.

by cliptakular on Mar 26, 2009 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions

Hey

I was told and assured that it couldn’t possibly get any worse. Boy is there egg on their face…

Get me BD and 75 and I'm in

by John R on Mar 26, 2009 8:28 AM PDT reply actions

That's a good point...

In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. - Elwood P. Dowd

by Steve Perrin on Mar 26, 2009 8:48 AM PDT up reply actions

Who knew MDSr would actually try to bring in Isiah Thomas

You’re right John R – if MDSr stays around, it could get worse. I stand corrected.

by Jax on Mar 26, 2009 9:23 AM PDT up reply actions

Hey

All I’ve ever said is you lack foresight and reason. And its so true.

Get me BD and 75 and I'm in

by John R on Mar 26, 2009 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions

You are right - I underestimated MDSr's incompetence

I didn’t think that it was possible.

Otherwise, I’m quite comfortable, as you must be in your ignorance is bliss world of Dunleavydom.

by Jax on Mar 26, 2009 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions

This is too scary to contemplate...

by John Raffo on Mar 26, 2009 8:59 AM PDT reply actions

I'd take Isiah if Sterling would sell the team.

by eastie Rich on Mar 26, 2009 10:04 AM PDT reply actions

NYPost makes a good point

The L.A. source said Thomas spoke with Sterling and Clippers coach/GM Mike Dunleavy about a potential personnel job. Thomas told them he would be in Los Angeles quite a bit next season because his daughter, Lauren, will be attending Loyola Marymount in L.A.

The source said talks didn’t go anywhere, because the club does not have a current position suited for Thomas, though it recently fired Elgin Baylor, who was vice president of basketball operations. Thomas’ expertise is the draft and his track record with the Knicks is solid in that department — with late first-round picks David Lee, Nate Robinson, Wilson Chandler and Renaldo Balkman all having respectable NBA careers, and second-rounder Trevor Ariza shining with the Lakers.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03262009/sports/knicks/isiah_talks_to_clippers_161343.htm

by sqrebck on Mar 26, 2009 10:50 AM PDT reply actions

Any positives

he may bring are completely outweighed by his utter ineptitude in everything else. Not to mention that his character infects everything around him.

Look at his track record. All he does is leave things worse than they were before he got there. He has a reputation of being charismatic and convincing and then screwing everything up once he seizes power. Heck, the CBA completely folded under his watch. The Knicks were the most embarrassing franchise in recent memory because of him.

All you have to look at is how quickly things turned around for the better in NY once Zeke was essentially banned from the team to see what a cancerous presence he is.

by madglove on Mar 26, 2009 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions

I THINK I FIGURED IT OUT...!

Dunleavy is a smart guy. Maybe he figured that if he invited Isiah he’d get exactly this exact press coverage and fan outrage. And maybe then people will say the following words: “Maybe having Dunleavy as GM isn’t so bad after all.” He’d have a few months of relaxing, not being shredded by Clipper Nation opinion because we’re all too busy breathing a sigh of relief that Isiah is not in town.

by bystander on Mar 27, 2009 8:09 AM PDT reply actions