Welcome to another installment of TSC’s Who’s Not Now. We’ve created the bracket of 16 athletes and figures of the sporting world who took the wrong paths in life and now must face humiliation on this blog. We’re breaking them down. You decide Who’s Not Now.
Why Isiah is Not Now? No general manager can take credit for destroying a franchise more than Isiah Thomas did to the New York Knicks. When de facto NBA blogger Bill Simmons writes an entire column that previews your sexual harassment lawsuit, it’s never a good thing. Thomas made “demeaning statements . . . as well as sexual advances” in the lawsuit that Madison Square Garden was forced to pay a record-breaking $11.6 million in 2007. During the trial, the accuser said Thomas told her, “he did not care about these “[expletive] white people” or these “[expletive] season ticket holders,” prompting the racist card to be thrown around more than his first round draft blunders. Fans protested for Isiah’s firing, and after the Knicks tied a franchise record of 59 losses, Isiah was relieved of his duties as President of Basketball Operations.
Why Tyson is Not Now? Granted, Tyson has enough classic YouTube clips to rename the site TysonTube, but “Iron Mike” is better known for his controversy, bizzarreness, and thirst for human flesh. He was convicted of raping “Miss Black Rhode Island” in 1991, served six years in jail, then began the epic Tyson v Holyfield battle. In the second match between the two, the fight was stopped with Tyson biting Holyfield’s both ears, ending in disqualification. After that, Tyson told Lennox Lewis after a fight that “I want your heart, I want to eat your children.”
TSC’s Pick: Isiah Thomas.
But we don’t make the choices. YOU must vote on the right-hand column for who you think is “Not Now.”
Voting ends Tuesday at noon eastern.




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