Yesterday Knicks Trial Highlights: More Swearing!

During yesterday's testimony in Knicks sexual harassment trial, we learned the following things:

A former Knicks employee named Jeffrey Nix (ha!) testified for his friend Anucha Browne Sanders, saying that she had complained about Thomas' behavior well before being fired. Browne Sanders, who is suing Knicks president and coach Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden management for sexual harassment (and wrongful termination and $10 million), had claimed that Thomas called her a bitch and swore at her. Nix recounted that Browne Sanders told him Thomas said to her, "Don't forget, you f------ bitch, I'm the president of this f------- team." Nix also said that Browne Sanders mentioned that suddenly Thomas was in love with her, "It went from last year bitch and ho to now he's in love with me."
James Dolan knows that murder is inappropriate. In a video deposition that Browne Sanders' lawyer took last year, the Knicks owner explained that he decided to fire Browne Sanders even while her complaints of sexual harassment were being investigated because she tried to "influence the process." When asked if calling someone a "bitch" was appropriate, Dolan said, "No, it is not appropriate, it is also not appropriate to murder some one. I don't know that that has happened either."

Also, James Dolan likes to slouch will being deposed - see the video yourself.

And revelation that Thomas felt it was more offensive for a white man to call a black woman a bitch than a black man calling a black woman a bitch has sparked a lot of outcry. The Reverend Al Sharpton told ABC News, "The National Action Network and I are unequivocally against a person of any race, color or creed calling a person a 'nigga' 'bitch' or 'ho,' and further, that no person regardless of his or her race, has the right to make misogynistic or sexist remarks against another person."

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By Jen Chung on September 19, 2007 5:36 PM

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guest

the above comments about race and sex...are most likely made by stupid men

guest

This dude is so primal!

Machism is the worse of human kind. Represing the female just because meles have the urge of supremacy!

How can you treat a smart woman (that keept at the finances) like a cow....Moron.

I hope the trial makes a point for all machist men

guest

Aren't black males wonderful - no matter where they are on the social strata..?

guest

as a black man, I think it's totally appopiate to call them ho's bitches! If a woman has sex for money then she's a bitch aight! All you crackas can't say it but us black men with dark skin, big lips and dicks can. That's how it is! why do jews not eat pork? that's how it is! why do people believe in an aryan with blue eyes who was born in the middle east and could walk on water and come back from the dead and had heat vision? that's just how it is!

guest

james dolan has got to be the worst fucking piece of shit entitled baby in the world. Everyone laughs at his ass, I'm sure everyone in the organization secretly hates him.

guest

These MSG clowns have no clue. Clearly the internal organization is run as well as the Knicks are coached...both with the same locker room mentality. These idiots should have settled long before they got to court.