As I mentioned months ago in my groundbreaking article" Brown out in the Garden"- Larry needed to be cut loose for the various reasons I indicated, and which you mention some in your comment.
The way this was pulled off was horrible.
No direct contact until you are fired and then now I hear Brown will become part of some arbitration process by Stern-to figure out how much he should be compensated.
 Look Larry was a lousy coach-abusive to players-without a clue how to use the talent the Knicks had; but he has a contract still worth 40 million dollars, which he should rightly get.
As for Isiah- I think he will be an interim coach(maybe a year or two-then he will
go elsewhere.)
 If he lets his players play-cuts the deadwood- encourages them to achieve and
escapes being put in the slammer- this Knick team , if it gets a decent small forward ,should make the playoffs this season.
But these are big ifs !

Does David Stern have the authority to fire the owner of the Knicks. It seems like the owner is the main problem since he doesn’t know how to hire personel that are competent (with the exception of Larry Brown). Isiah can’t manage nothing…my 4 year old niece understands that spending too much money is a bad thing.

People make a big deal about how much NY over pays their team. 50+ mil over the cap. My question is how much money does the Knicks add to the bottom line every year. Running a NBA team is a business. If they are still turning a profit after over paying the team then so be it. Most owners don’t know much about the game, but I have to think that they know how to make money better than you or me because they own a Pro Team. Larry Brown did a really bad job last year, and it looked like he was trying to get let go. As for Isiah maybe he should try something else. He is a winner and I can even give him pass for what happened in Canada and the CBA. But this NY Knick thing is really bad. Maybe he can get the ear of this team and make something happen. If he can make the playoffs with this same team maybe people will leave him alone. We will all see.

Yeah. But how do you have the highest payroll AND the worst team? It’s like Reverse Moneyball.

Well it’s come out in the news now that a lot of the crap trades were Zeke’s idea, not Brown’s. So do you blame Brown completely for the record of the team when he got dealt a bunch of ill fitting, prima donna discards?

We’ll see how Zeke does next year. Anything less than a .500 record and he should be canned. He built this team.

Re: salaries, Carey Anderson is right. Not only that, but those massive salaries mean that the Knicks have the means to trade for KG ad Iverson, something no other team can boast. When you’re capped out, you’re capped out. All that is left is trading salaries, and the more salary you have (even if the players suck) the more (and bigger) trading you can do.

I wrote a couple pieces on salaries for the uninitiated, and they didn’t make the blog circuit, but if you Google, you can find anything.

Three points:

1. Everyone is very excited about the fact that this train wreck will only get worse now that Isiah is coaching the team, but I’m not so sure. Honestly, I think the fact that Larry Brown is always surrounded by a cloud of negativity, stress, and controversy will actually make the Knicks less interesting next season. Sure, they’ll still be awful, but they won’t quite have the same perverse fascination that they had with the Isiah/Larry/Shitty Team triad.

2. I truly hope that somebody else hires Larry fast, so we don’t have to endure any more “fire Flip and rehire Larry” comments. The idea is simply idiotic, and there’s no way it’s going to happen. Give it a rest, people.

3. As for next year’s NBA train wreck, the Bobcats may give the Knicks a run for their money. First Jordan becomes part-owner, and then on SI’s Truth and Rumors, I see, “Jordan’s Bobcats Interested in Larry Brown?” Please, Lord…

This maybe the end of Zeke’s basketball run. If he does not make the playoffs he will be gone. I don’t think anyone will give him another chance, so good luck Zeke. I want to see him do well because he is one of us and he wants to win. Hell if you told me 3 or 4 years ago NY had these same player we all would be like damm thats not fair. I really think he can win with this team. If they open up the offense and run they can win. Larry Brown is not that type of coach to do that. He wants to walk the ball up the floor and run the clock down. If they can move one or two guys I really think they can win. People if Walker from the Heat can get a ring anything can happen!

Oh I almost forgot! Please don’t talk about bringing LB back! Matt dont let anyone talk about that guy replacing Flip! Its not a good move and Mr.D will not have it. I hope he just goes away. I love what LB did for us, but what he pulled here with I don’t know if I can coach the whole year and I want to be here move. Please. Flip is our guy!

The idea of hiring Larry is idiotic becuase of the rift between him and Davidson. It would be nice if we could rehire him, though. The lesson of this offseason is not just that the human-canonball approach is the most effective offense, but that coaching matters. Lotsa people like to say that coaches coach and players play, or that a coach’s job is to stay out of the way or not screw up, etc. But the differences between our teams of last year and this year and the differences between the Heat teams of last year and this year show how important coaching is.

Our guy installed a loser offense and didn’t have enough respect to keep things working when the offense broke down. Riley got Shaq motivated and in shape, kept everyone else in line, and managed a suffocating defense with Jason Williams and Antoine Walker in the starting lineup.

Riley, Jackson, Brown and Daly — those are the best coaches. One’s available, and we’re a contender in need of a real coach. It’s a shame ego’s in the way of that.

Zeke gets this team on the same page and makes the Playoffs. He grins a ton and makes the cover of GQ. Again. LB looks like a total douche bag. Again. All is right in the world.