Isiah Thomas completely misremembers Eddy Curry trade that crippled Knicks

It's worth remembering that Isiah Thomas being put in charge of a WNBA team isn't just ridiculous for moral reasons, it's also ridiculous for basketball reasons.

Thomas, who was named president of the New York Liberty on Tuesday, has been a popular topic over the last 24 hours. The primary concern with his running a WNBA team is that when he ran the New York Knicks, the organization was sued and held liable for $11.6 million in a sexual harassment suit.

The secondary concern for fans of the Liberty should be that Thomas wasn't very good at running a basketball team. While he identified young talent well enough, he also completely mismanaged the salary cap and was generally bad enough that fans revolted. Thomas was only removed once there was heavy external pressure for the Knicks to do so.

But hey, that's what revisionist history is for.

Thomas was on the Boomer & Carton radio show Wednesday morning, completely misrepresenting the infamous Eddy Curry trade he made in October of 2005. Here's Thomas:

I had a swap. It was a flip-flop, it was not a trade. Everyone said "you traded two draft picks for Eddy Curry," which is not the truth. I had a first-round pick in every draft that I was there. Now the flip-flop - flip-flop - was for a gentleman by the name of Tyrus Thomas, that the Chicago Bulls drafted and is no longer in the league. The trade ended up being Eddy Curry and a gentleman by the name of Wilson Chandler for Tyrus Thomas. That was the Eddy Curry trade. There were no two draft picks that were traded. Let's make sure that's clear.

Yes, let us make sure that's clear.

The actual trade saw the Knicks deal Jermaine Jackson, Mike Sweetney, Tim Thomas, a 2006 first-round draft pick, a 2007 first-round draft pick, a 2007 second-round draft pick and a 2009 second-round draft pick to the Bulls for Curry, Antonio Davis and a 2007 first-round draft pick.

Those first-round picks ended up being LaMarcus Aldridge and Joakim Noah, and while it's tough to play that game with dealt picks - who's to say the Knicks would have drafted as effectively? - it hurts all the more in retrospect. And it gets worse when the full trade tree is examined:

It's unclear what Thomas is thinking of when he mentions a Tyrus Thomas for Curry and Wilson Chandler deal. The Bulls and Portland Trail Blazers swapped picks at the 2006 NBA Draft that ended up being Thomas and Aldridge, but that was separate of the Knicks. The Knicks and Bulls effectively swapped 2007 picks in the Curry deal, but that draft was nearly two years later, and the Knicks pick became Chandler while the Bulls' pick became Noah.

Now that we're clear, Isiah, let's take a quick look at Curry's numbers as a Knick: 15.2 points and 5.8 rebounds in 222 games, 56.3-percent shooting, 111 points allowed per-100 possessions when on the floor and zero playoff games.

Quite the flip-flop of franchise fortunes.