James Dolan's Ultimatum [J. Mark English]

NEW YORK (AP) --

"I'm saying this right with Isiah here. This is his team," Madison Square Garden chairman James Dolan said Monday. "He made this bed. There's nobody better than him to make this thing go forward.

"But he has to do that and he has one year, one season to do that. At this time next year Isiah will be with us if we can all sit here and say that this team has made significant progress towards its goal of eventually becoming an NBA championship team. If we can't say that, then Isiah will not be here."

Isiah made his bed? Try looking in the mirror Mr. Dolan. Does Scott Layden not count? How about when you fired Ernie Grunfeld? Do you take no responsibility for the hacking away of a championship caliber team you acquired in 1995? Isiah's bed was made before he even arrived. Perhaps you should get in with him.