This was 4 years ago btw...
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After one season with New York in 2003-04, Mutombo was told by then-general manager and now head coach of the Knicks Isiah Thomas that the day had come, and that blunt message has driven him for the past four years.
"It's still a wound," Mutombo said. "My wife and I still talk about it. It's still a bit sad to see the commissioner coming and all those people coming to celebrate the 17 years of my career and accomplishments and you look back and say that about (four) years ago, I had a guy tell me that I couldn't play basketball no more, to go to the beach and onto vacation. That's the same guy who's losing his job tomorrow."
Link: http://www.withleather.com/post.phtml?pk=5362
EDIT: Sorry Dream34!
So true. The sad part is that they had an amazing coach who could have taken them back to the Playoffs in Larry Brown, but they fired the wrong person. If they had fired Isiah and found a competent GM to build a Larry Brown type team, the Knicks would be so much better off right now.
