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The Knicks Hate The Media

Feb 4, 2007 – 11:23 PM
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Marcel Mutoni

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According to the Frank Isola of the New York Daily News, the New York Knicks have a team policy with the goal of not letting the players give the notorious NY media too much information. The policy, internally, is knows as "Tell Those Bastards Nothing".

Isola claims that the organization has gone as far as showing Knick players the pictures of the various beat writers in the city, and has even provided scouting reports on them (for example, what to watch for from a particular writer.) Frank Isola's scouting report claims that he'll "try to get close to players in an attempt to get information out of them."

Isola, whose work I enjoy tremendously, has even heard from people inside the Knick organization that "an employee from the Knicks sometimes sends in comments [to Isola's blog] and is listed as anonymous." Awesome!

The players aren't the only ones who have to deal with management's distrust of the media; apparently there's a PR person jotting down every word head coach Isiah Thomas says to the press corps.

Aside from the idiotic trades, bad contracts and overall managerial ineptitude, I think we can safely add insane paranoia to the growing list of Knick problems.
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