Former Knicks coach Isiah Thomas, who, along with the Knicks organization, was slapped with a high profile sexual harassment suit by former exec Anucha Browne Saunders (she won an $11.5 million settlement), was rushed to the hospital early this morning after taking about 10 sleeping pills. Sources say the incident is being treated as an overdose and not a suicide attempt, and a rep from the Knicks reports that Thomas is "fine." [NYDN]

Despite being ranked No. 32 on Forbes' 101 Dumbest Moments in Business list — for selling faux fur Rocawear jackets that were actually made out of dog fur — Jay-Z seemed pretty happy at last night's Knicks game.

Also at the game were the Simmons sisters and Spike Lee, of course. Also on the dumb moments in business list were O.J. Simpson's high-cost, low-value sting op, Roy Pearson's $54 million lost-pants lawsuit, Isiah Thomas' sexual harassment case, Don Imus's you-know-what, and Pacman Jones' ill-fated attempt at making it rain.

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• Kelly Rowland's still having trouble finding success sans Beyonce. [C&D]

• It's not just the women he's sexually harassed who want Isiah Thomas fired from the Knicks. [MSNBC]

• Queen Latifah will star in a new Jenny Craig campaign that focuses on a healthy lifestyle instead of losing a lot of weight. [People]

• White supremacists want a piece of the Jena pie. [MSNBC]

• Congrats to my cousin, who not only watched his son being born in Illinois via satellite from Iraq, but also made the local paper. [DH]

Anucha Browne Sanders, the former Madison Square Gardens executive who sued the Knicks organization and coach Isiah Thomas for sexual harassment, reached an $11.5 million settlement deal with her enemies today. The deal is only $100,000 less than the jury initially granted Sanders and nearly twice what she originally sued for, so not only can the Knicks not win a game, they can't negotiate for shit.

• Da Brat needs to make sure the next person she smashes in the face with a rum bottle isn't so litigious. [EUR]

• Sam Fine, makeup artist to the black stars, blogs! [SFB]

• Jada Pinkett-Smith steps behind the camera to direct The Human Contract. [SP]

• Isiah Thomas should cease and desist from sharing juicy secrets with Stephon Marbury from now on. [NYDN]

• Shut up, Shar. [People]

Madison Square Garden execs shouldn't be surprised. When one mistreated black female employee gets $11.6 million for her pain and suffering in the workplace, other mistreated or "mistreated" employees will surely follow.

Two black women who worked as security supervisors at Madison Square Garden are set to hit their former employer with a discrimination lawsuit, claiming they were denied advancement while young white interns who slept with management quickly rose to the top.

"It's definitely a boys' club there," charged Diane Henson, 50, who said she worked at the Garden for 11 years only to get pushed out this summer once she complained about the unfair treatment of blacks, and women in particular.

Isiah Thomas, who really has enough to worry about, is probably thanking his lucky stars he was never around security supervisors long enough to call them bitches.

[NYP]

The New York Post has come up with a solution to Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden's costly sexual harassment issues, but only if you live in a disgusting dreamworld where Rosie O'Donnell weighs 1,000 lbs and is in need of a corporate job with a sexist professional basketball team. And, anyway, Isiah Thomas would probably be just as, if not more, likely to call a white, morbidly obese lesbian toting a McDonald's bag a bitch. Except, what's the consensus on black-on-white bitch-calling? The rules confuse me so…

[QT]

Anucha Browne Sanders, the former Knick's executive who claimed she was fired because she complained about touchy-feely, verbally abusive head coach Isiah Thomas, is disgruntled no longer. A jury ruled today that she was entitled to punitive damages from the Knicks, although Isiah Thomas will not have to pay her any damages directly.

Today’s verdicts are the latest embarrassment for the Knicks, who have floundered in recent years. The team has had six head coaches since 2001, has only made the playoffs once and has signed numerous expensive players who have flopped.

During the trial, testimony by witnesses made the inner workings of the Garden appear dysfunctional, hostile and lewd. The Knick’s star guard, Stephon Marbury, testified that he had sex with a team intern in the trunk of his car after a group outing to a strip club in 2005.

Aren't sexual harassment lawsuits a bitch?

[NYT]

The always-interesting, always-enlightening Isiah Thomas sexual harassment trial continued yesterday, with lawyers playing a videotaped deposition during which the Knicks coach indirectly gives the word bitch n-word status for black men (i.e. it's fine for black men to call black women bitches, but white men bet' not disrespect beautiful black queens like that!).

Asked if he was bothered by a black man calling a black female "bitch," Thomas said: "Not as much. I'm sorry to say, I do make a distinction.

"A white male calling a black female a bitch is highly offensive," Thomas said. "That would have violated my code of conduct."

"Maybe I shouldn't go there. … A white male calling a black female, that is wrong with me. I'm not taking that. I'm not accepting that. … That's a problem for me."

How about a black woman calling a black man a bitch, Isiah? How would that make you feel? I'm perfectly willing to participate in a test case if you aren't sure.

[NYDN]

I don't know where I've been, but the seedy, sexist underbelly of the Knicks franchise is being exposed in a $10 million sexual harassment suit filed by Anucha Browne Sanders, a former executive at Madison Square Garden, against Knicks coach and basketball legend Isiah Thomas. Sanders says she was fired because of her complaints about Thomas, who she says called her bitch and a ho and claimed not to "care about white people." He also told the former college basketball player he loved her after a friendly game of horse.

For sheer entertainment value, I think, genius orator Stephon Marbury took the stand yesterday, when the case went off in a slightly different direction. Marbury was forced to admit that he lured Sanders' intern into his car for sex (after his cousin had speculated out loud about the attractiveness of her genitalia) and that he called Sanders a bitch (but not a black bitch, he is quick to say) when she told him he couldn't give away any more free tickets.

I concluded, from looking at the photos from outside the courtroom, that Marbury was happy to be there despite the somber proceedings. But that's probably because it's Thomas on trial and not him. And, I mean, who doesn't have sex with an intern at some point? Isn't that what they're there for?

[NYDN]