Say it's so...

When a charming, former NBA legend-turned-incompetent executive sues you for wrongful termination on the grounds of race, what better way to distract from the lawsuit by hiring another charming, former NBA legend-turned-incompetent executive who just happens to also be an African-American?

This must be the thought process going through Los Angeles Clippers' owner Donald Sterling's head right now, as ESPN is reporting that Sterling has had conversations with (all-time worst person associated with the NBA) Isiah Thomas about joining the team in an executive capacity, just as former "General Manager" Elgin Baylor's lawsuit against Sterling starts to heat up. Ever since this news broke, I've been praying all day for this to come true. One train wreck certainly deserves another.

Nuggets fans don't need to be reminded of what an atrocious human being Thomas is, but lets run down the wrap sheet one more time just for fun...

1985: Thomas (allegedly) coerces his fellow Eastern Conference All-Stars to "freeze out" then rookie Michael Jordan from getting the ball in the All-Star Game.

1987: When referring to Larry Bird, Thomas was quoted as saying "if he was black, he'd be just another good guy." Of course, it was Bird who would steal Thomas' lazy pass in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals that year, thereby stealing a sure-win game for the Pistons and ending the Pistons chances of winning the series.

1991: After his Pistons get swept by Jordan's Bulls in the Eastern Conference Finals (in Detroit), Thomas leads his fellow starters into the locker room before the game comes to an end.

1998: Leaves the Toronto Raptors after four years as the team's Executive Vice President because of a dispute with upper management. During Thomas' tenure, the Raptors won 27% of their games. Two years later, the Raptors would appear in the playoffs three straight times.

2000: Two years after Thomas takes over the Continental Basketball Association, the 50 year old professional league declares bankruptcy. The highlight of Thomas' tenure was turning down the NBA's offer to buy the league for $11 million (even though Thomas bought it for just $5 million) and turn it into the NBA's official minor league.

2003: Thomas is fired as head coach of the Indiana Pacers by long time nemesis Larry Bird, you know, the former "just another good guy." In Thomas' final season as head coach, he refused to give Celtics' Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker fair playing time in the All-Star Game, and Pierce and Walker would repay the favor by leading their sixth-seeded Celtics to oust Thomas' third-seeded Pacers in the playoffs first round. The Pacers would win 61 games the following season under new coach Rick Carlisle.

2003 to the present: After running the Raptors and CBA into the ground, and failing as coach in Indiana, New York Knicks "owner" James Dolan hires Thomas to be the team's President of Basketball Operations, providing us five years of the most blatant incompetence ever seen at the executive level in NBA history. Among Thomas' many highlights would be the trade for Stephon Marbury and subsequent in-fighting between the two, trading away two first round picks for Eddy Curry (one of which was a lottery pick) and signing him to a hefty contract, sandbagging both Lenny Wilkens and Larry Brown, inciting a brawl with our Denver Nuggets that all but ruined the Nuggets season (Nuggets head coach George Karl is one of the few people involved with the NBA who's had the balls to call out Thomas publicly), acquiring Zach Randolph and overpaying for Jerome James and, of course, (allegedly) sexually harassing Knicks employee Anucha Browne Sanders. Oh, and lest we forget that as head coach Thomas guided the team to 56 victories in two seasons.

And to think that some people in the NBA community thought Thomas should have gotten consideration to the be the Pistons' GM when the organization instead (and oh so rightly) hired Thomas' former backcourt mate Joe Dumars is beyond laughable.

Isiah Thomas' post-playing career as an executive and head coach has been so unbelievably - and comically - atrocious, that by comparison Bernie Bickerstaff's career running the Nuggets and Wizards into the ground looks halfway successful. On second thought, even Thomas' ineptitude can't make Bernie look competent.

On a side note, while Baylor's lawsuit is a complete mockery (after all, he was employed by the Clippers for 22 years and guided them to a whopping four playoff appearances), his story as a player is incredible and in many ways heartbreaking. If you haven't done so already and are a true fan of the NBA, I encourage you to take 15 minutes and read Bill Simmons' article on Baylor's career as a player.