Isiah Thomas and Bill Laimbeer were the faces of “The Bad Boys’’ in Detroit during the late 1980s and early 90s. Now the Liberty’s head coach realizes, with Tuesday’s controversial hiring of Thomas as the team’s president, Laimbeer presides over “The Bad Girls’’ of the Garden — a squad he believes many hope to see fail.
And the recent backlash doesn’t bother Laimbeer. The latest has the WNBA reviewing the 2007 sexual harassment trial brought upon by former Garden marketing director Anucha Browne Sanders in which Thomas played a featured role.
“The spotlight is on the Liberty — that’s OK by me,’’ Laimbeer told The Post in a phone interview.