On April 2nd, 2008, the New York Knicks hired Donnie Walsh, a son of New York City, as President of basketball operations. For the past five years, the Knicks had operated under the cloud of the Isiah Thomas regime, a President, GM and coach who raised questions in every facet of his approach, both personal and professional. There were whispers around the league that David Stern had wrangled Walsh, and brought Dolan to heel, to replace Thomas’ regime with Walsh’s, an NBA lifer who began his tenure, coaching in Denver under Larry Brown, before moving to the Pacers in Indiana, where he worked his way up through the organization till he was CEO in 2008, when he defected home to Manhattan.
A definitive ranking of every major move of the Donnie Walsh Administration, part 1
