As somebody who grew up in Chicago during the years that the Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons we battling in the late 80’s, and then the Bulls dynasty of the 90’s, I’ve never exactly been a big fan of Isiah Thomas. I don’t care that the high school he went to is a few blocks down the street from where I live, or that he’s a local product just like Derrick Rose. He was a Piston, so I hate him.

So like many other bloggers, I enjoyed Zeke’s time with the New York Knicks because it’s always fun to see people you don’t like fall flat on their face. Plus, I’m not exactly a Knicks fan, either, so watching Isiah help destroy that franchise was an added bonus. That being said, I’m not going to pile on Thomas for his overdose on sleeping pills. Whether he did it accidentally or he was actually trying to kill himself, I don’t know, but I’m not going to get on his case for it. I’ll just let Anucha Browne Sanders — the woman who got $12 million after suing Thomas for sexual harrassment — take care of that for me.

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The NEW YORK POST reports on how Anucha Browne Sanders, the woman who scored $11M thanks to a few Isiah Thomas’ interoffice loose ball fouls, is spending her enormous windfall.

(Sadly, a new stylist was not up for bid)

In the aftermath of the bloody mess that was the Isiah-Anucha sex harass scandal, Sanders is now herself one of the tri-state’s most prominent media targets figures. So you would think that for awhile, she’d keep a low profile. And you would be wrong. Read more…