As anyone who has read previous blogs/posts of mine in the past, I am not a fan of Isiah Thomas as a GM. As a player he was incredible. As a GM he has been incredulous! However that doesn’t prevent me from seeing things clearly and what is happening to Isiah in the courts of New York is wrong.

He is being accused of sexually harrassing a female employee. Did he attack her? No. Did he suggest certain benefits would come her way if she was more, shall we say accommodating to him? No. She is complaining that he called her a word meaning female dog and cursed at her. He did this before he told her that he loved her of course.

And she wants $10 million in damages from being called names and being told of a crush. Thank god I didn’t meet this girl when I was in grade school. That was how you let girls know you liked them! First you make fun of them and then you tell them how you really feel.

If these accusations are true, and I have no idea whether they are or not, is immaterial. They are in a high stress work environment. People’s tempers flair in these environments and sometimes things get said that the people wish they had said more temperately. What has our legal system become when people get sued for $10 million because someone was rude to them?
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