Former NBA player Etan Thomas added himself to the pile of retired athletes who think New York Knicks owner James Dolan has to go before the franchise can turn over a new leaf and head in the right direction.
Thomas had no qualm about his claims.
Via Heavy.com:
“The Knicks have to get rid of Dolan somehow,” Thomas told Brandon Robinson on Scoop B Radio. “Because he's the problem.”
“Nothing good is going to happen there until the Knicks get rid of him. Right now, they’re stuck. They have two free agents that wanted to go there and that didn’t happen. They said he didn’t offer the max. Seriously? He’s KD, you don’t offer him the max? We’ve been hearing about him all season wanting to come to New York and you send him to Brooklyn? Come on man!”
A Harlem native, Thomas was the 12th overall selection by the Dallas Mavericks in the 2000 NBA Draft. He was traded to the Washington Wizards in 2001 without ever playing a single game for the Mavs, spending seven of his 10 NBA seasons there before drawing stints with the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Atlanta Hawks to finish his career.
He’s now a published poet, freelance writer, civil rights activist, and a motivational speaker after concluding his NBA career during the 2010-11 season.
Thomas is hardly the first former player to express frustration about how the team is run under Dolan's watch, as nothing remarkably good has come for the team since making the NBA Finals in 1999.
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