Excuse me if there’s an obvious answer, but what in the world does Isaiah Thomas do well enough that a company (especially one with the internal, on-court, and PR troubles of MSG) would pay him money to consult? It isn’t coaching, or player personnel, or anything GM-related, and certainly he isn’t going to be working with Employee Relations.
MSG shows its utter cluelessness almost daily.
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