NEW YORK -- Isiah Thomas needs to spend more of his free time cutting grass, petting animals or getting involved in any form of mindless relaxation that allows him to clear his attic of cobwebs.
Thomas' thought process desperately craves cleansing, purging or reprogramming; more likely, all of the above.
In the last week, the Knicks' coach has unfurled one obtuse viewpoint after another; first at the expense of television analyst Greg Anthony, and now in defense of the NBA, high ground he felt the urge to take following deathly situations involving gun-ho Stephen Jackson of the Pacersand the Celtics' Sebastian Telfair (who is being investigated in connection with the shooting of a rapper in New York last week.)