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Oct 10, 2011 – New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony said he is working toward putting together a star-studded exhibition game in case the NBA lockout is not lifted, according to a report from the New York Post. 

The game would likely take place in New York City during mid-November and would probably include LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Paul.

“We’re going to keep giving back,” Anthony said.

On his Twitter account yesterday, Anthony started banging the drums for his Big Apple charity-fest.

“Working on an epic exhibition charity game in NYC,” he wrote. “Showtime. I’m comin’ home.”

The NBA is meeting with the players union today in hopes of ending the lockout and preserving the first two weeks of the regular season, but Anthony did not sound optimistic about the negotiations.

“I don’t think anything is going to happen between now and Monday,” Anthony added. “So we’ve just got to be prepared for that, be prepared for the lockout for the first two weeks and see where all this is going.”

As the lockout presses on, Anthony noted that it’s a bad situation for everybody involved.

“It’s sad all the way across,” he told the Post. “It’s [sad] for us as players. It’s sad for the owners. It’s sad for the fans of the NBA.”

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In a well-seasoned and very even piece from the New York Times on Isiah Thomas Saturday, the architect behind the big charity event this weekend starring LeBron James and Dwyane Wade (who the Times reports came to Isiah, not the other way around), Thomas primarily gave the same answers he always does about the Knicks.

“No comment.”

“You’ll have to ask the Knicks about that.”

Etc.

But there it is, tucked a few paragraphs away, in regards to his relationship with New York. He couldn’t leave it alone. He’s like a guy with a sore tooth, he can’t stop touching it. From the Times:

Yet the rumors of Thomas’s influence persist, which is both to his benefit and his detriment. The reports help inflate his reputation as an N.B.A. kingpin, perhaps convincing another owner to hire him. But they also serve as a constant irritant to Knicks officials and to many fans, who resent the idea that Thomas — who was fired in 2008 — is still shaping anything.

Thomas’s name is probably invoked more often in the New York news media than it is in Miami.

“The universe has a way of trying to right itself,” Thomas said, pausing at length. “I’ll leave it at that.”

via Isiah Thomas, Out of the N.B.A, Retains Influence There – NYTimes.com.

Righting itself? It’s easy to see a nice little path from that statement to Thomas believing he was wrongly ousted from the GM position and the universe is trying to re-install him. You know, because the universe has nothing better to do than to try and “fix” the GM position of the New York Knicks by getting back the single worst executive in the history of professional sports. Makes sense.

But this is what Thomas does. He leaves those little notes, drops those little hints, keeps working behind the scenes and making life miserable for Knicks fans as they await the return of the guy whose sexual harassment case wasn’t the worst consequence of his tenure. He’s like the bogeyman. He’s just letting you know he’s around. Even when he’s not around.