Thomas Meets with Clippers Owner

Post #1 » by **SD2042** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:04 pm

http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wireta ... ffice_job/

clipperfan4life · Post #2 » by **clipperfan4life** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:15 pm

i do not like how our team is attempting to becoming a 2nd version of the knicks -.-

PlinkingPanda · Post #3 » by **PlinkingPanda** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:43 pm

holy crap we're screwed.

artest420 · Post #4 » by **artest420** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:30 pm

wow, i feel sorry for clipper fans just for interviewing thomas. I really want the clippers to be the best LA team, mostly because im a kings fan who cant root for the lakers. Hopefully thomas doesnt get the gm job, he would make the clippers the worst team in the world for the next 20 years.

Post #5 » by **mkwest** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:14 am

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.

Marc Berman, NY Post

cinnamon · Post #6 » by **cinnamon** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:41 am

I'm not going to get an ulcer over this. I suspect it is all posturing on Isiah's part. He desperately wants to get back into the action so he somehow engineered this meeting. I'm sure he has teams of flunkies nosing around trying to find anywhere in the league where he can get a foot back in. Let's all just pray that it won't be here.

Post #7 » by **SD2042** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:21 am

Time to get our prayer on.

Even Jesus wept hearing this news.

Post #8 » by **mkwest** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:17 am

Lester and West denied there were job offers, in separate interviews with The Times. Thomas is doing what he can to try to get back into the game, and with his daughter set to attend Loyola Marymount, he offered to work for the Clippers without getting paid because he is still receiving money from the Knicks, Dunleavy said.

The Clippers were sympathetic to Thomas' overtures.

"Isiah came to us," Dunleavy said in a telephone interview Thursday morning. "I wasn't going to be a jerk and say, 'I can't talk to you.' But there's no position in the organization for him."

Thomas ran into Sterling at a party and apparently pushed for work and asked whether he could sit next to the owner at an upcoming game, according to Dunleavy.

That didn't happen.

Lisa Dillman, LA Times

remixer2017 · Post #9 » by **remixer2017** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:04 pm

WOW!!! REALLY STERLING??? this is such bull donald sterling is going to mess everything up. Ive been a die hard clipper fan for 10+ years and im so tired of this crap. How would thomas help us? This is the **** that pisses me off and makes me want to become a fan of any other team. Sterling sell the team NOW!

cdash · Post #10 » by **cdash** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:30 am

What the hell kind of party did Isiah Thomas run into Donald Sterling at?